For around three years, Prince William and Kate moved to and lived on the island of Anglesey while William served as a RAF rescue pilot.
Kate and William lived Isle of Anglesey from 2010 – 2013 (Image: Getty)
Although the Royal Family does not have a home in Wales, Prince William and Princess Kate lived on the Isle of Anglesey, or Ynys Môn, from 2010 to 2013, due to William’s job as a search and rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF).
Although the couple were not engaged when William was stationed on the Welsh island in 2010, Kate joined her boyfriend at the time and they shared a house, but almost a decade later, Kate admitted she felt a little lonely while living there.
Kate used a simple, seven-word response to describe her time in Anglesey, stating: “I was so isolated, so cut off.”
Visiting a children’s centre in Cardiff in 2020 and speaking openly, Kate revealed her true feelings: “I was chatting to some of the mums, I had just had George and William was still working with search and rescue, so we came up here when George was a tiny, tiny little baby, in the middle of Anglesey. It was so isolated, so cut off, I didn’t have my family around me, he was doing night shifts, so if only I’d had a centre like this at a certain time.”
As most of Anglesey is rural, dotted only with small villages and farms, Kate could go about her daily business without much attention, while the couple lived in a four-bedroom home, Bodorgan Hall.
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William and Kate on a visit to Newborough Beach in Anglesey in 2019 (Image: Getty)
Named Bodorgan Hall, Kate and William lived in a four-bedroom farmhouse, just outside the village of Bodorgan, with a locally sourced Welsh slate roof and various large windows, showing off an incredible view of the nearby sea and the Eryri mountains.
The property is listed as an Area of Outstanding Beauty and Environmentally Sensitive Area, mainly because of its surrounding woodland and beach. It also has a circular dovecote, barn, big gardens, a lawn, and a deer park.
Kate and William paid only £750 a month in rent to Sir George Meyrick, who owns the property and the estate it stands on and it is the biggest estate on Anglesey.
The Wales couple returned to Bodorgan Hall after they got married in 2011, and again following Prince George’s birth, but the couple left Anglesey in 2013, when George was a little older, to take up residence at Kensington Palace.
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Prince William and Princess Kate lived in Bodorgan Hall with Prince George (Image: Getty)
Speaking at the time of his and Kate’s experience on Anglesey, Prince William said: “This island has been our first home together, and it will always be an immensely special place for us both. Catherine and I look forward to returning again and again over the coming years with our family.”
“I know that I speak for Catherine when I say that I have never in my life known somewhere as beautiful and as welcoming as Anglesey.”
The RAF Valley in Anglesey, North Wales, is the RAF’s only station in Wales and is home to the No 4 Flying Training School (4FTS), for the UK’s next generation of fighter pilots. Crews at the base are also trained for mountain and maritime operations across the world.
During his time in Anglesey, the then Duke of Cambridge took part in numerous and often dangerous rescue attempts as well as a six-week deployment to the Falkland Islands.
