Through the KP keyhole: Princess Eugenie's moving in to Kensington Palace with Wills, Harry and Kate. So who else shares the pile Diana hated?

Not long ago, the writing was on the wall for Kensington Palace, writes RICHARD KAY. 


The deaths of Princess Diana (top left with Prince Charles) and the Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, led to courtiers drawing up a plan to pension off the remaining royal residents and mothball the place before turning it into a permanent home for the vast Royal Collection of artworks and other treasures. Retirement packages were prepared as thank-yous for the Gloucesters and the Kents for their years of public service, with help to move out. Yet nearly 15 years on, the Duke of Kent (centre top left, with the Duchess), 80, his brother Prince Michael (whose wife, Princess Michael of Kent, is pictured centre middle right), 74, and the Duke of Gloucester (bottom centre right, with the Duchess), 71, show no sign of retiring and remain full-time working members of the Royal Family. They also continue to live in the rambling warren of 17th and 18th-century rooms that the Duke of Windsor disparagingly referred to as 'the Aunt Heap', a home for supposedly hard-up royal relatives. And so Kensington Palace is flourishing. It is home to Prince William, the Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry (all bottom left on the steps of the palace) - and from next year, we learnt this week, Princess Eugenie (right) will be moving in.