It’s a bit of an unfair name, but Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, has been in the news lately for deciding that she wanted two brand new kitchens in both her Kensington Palace apartment and at a completely new kitchen at her and William’s Norfolk retreat.
The kitchen at the majestic Anmer Hall in North Norfolk was said to be worth a pretty impressive £38,000 when pictures were posted online by the couple who installed it in the mansion six years ago. Their dream kitchen featured £17,000 worth of gorgeous hand-crafted worktops along with a fashionable inset Belfast sink, an Aga costing £11,495 and a fridge that was worth over £8500.
There was even a state of the art espresso maker in the original kitchen, and a chopping block worth an eye-watering £200. We hope they went to a good home!
Royal sources have said that the kitchen at Anmer Hall will be ‘unrecognisable’ once Kate and Wills have redesigned it.
The couple seem to have a bit of a penchant for redesigning kitchens, given that they added a completely new second kitchen to their apartment in Kensington Palace recently, after already upgrading the existing kitchen, designed by Lord Snowdon. The couple said that they wanted to have their own family kitchen just for the three of them as well as the enormous 350 square foot kitchen they would use for entertaining. We wonder if Kate uses her family kitchen for microwave ready meals and Pot Noodles and the big one for ‘proper cooking’.
It’s hard to imagine just how luxurious the Royals’ new kitchens will be, but we can pretty much assume that they will be installing state of the art appliances and that everything will be high quality and absolutely bang on trend.
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