The LA House:Harry and Meghan’s American Home.
I think the Royal Couple’s plans are long term, and that at some stage it will become known where they have settled down.
I certainly have been following each house the media has been reporting they have been checking out.
What struck me though was that although no-one in the general public has ever seen inside Frogmore Cottage - their first real home together as they were involved in the renovation and decoration themselves ...
...the case now is that I and anyone on the planet, can see the interior of whichever house they choose.
Not from the photos in a media article, but from the real estate listings.
The current favourite being reported on by The Sun, Daily Mail etc is very easy to find on Google Earth, as present and past real estate listings have disclosed it’s address on Shadow Mountain Drive.
And while there are a lot of the same photos being used - interior photos also - there are so many sites promoting this house from when it was listed last year, even in “Variety”. There are many, many photos to pour over.
Do I think this house is more likely than Petra Manor or the Mel Gibson house that negotiations over price fell through on? Not particularly, though it did strike me as odd when the listing agent described it as “Fit for a King and Queen” and said the grounds were “ reminiscent” of a “royal estate”.
Why use those terms when your normal market is the entertainment industry, why not say “Fit or a Star”, “Fit for an A-Lister”. Did the Royal Couple inquire and there was some excitement about that? If it was me I’d want to drop some hints too!
Anyway, whether this house or some other, as I wrote above, I think it will become known at some point where they are living.
And even if they buy a property that is not publicly listed when they take it over, there may well be older real estate listings from prior owners selling.
This was never an issue with the interior of most Royal homes in the past. Remember the dearth of photos of Frogmore Cottage when that was first known. And, although we’ve seen some of the Queen’s, Cambridges, Prince of Wales interiors, we’ve never seen their bedrooms or bathrooms. No-one has seen inside Princess Beatrice or Eugenie’s homes.
As to this most recent property, I love how when you don’t have a garage to put your car in, and you have to park in front of your house, you get to call that a “motor court”.
And I’m not worried that the vinyl flooring will have to be removed in the screening room - some people think chemicals are omitted from such floors.
This is what we call a floating floor in Australia. (Floating because it just sits, locked slat into slat, on top of the actual floor.)
We know the couple put one of those down in Frogmore. (And if it’s been glued down, forget removing it.)
All the reported upon properties have had drawbacks of course, but all have been beautifully presented, so I’m sure wherever the Duke and Duchess finally put down roots for their American life, it will be a wonderful, wonderful house.
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