All the Places Prince Harry Has Lived From Birth Through to Today

The home he was first brought back to was his parents' quarters in Kensington Palace, and it was to remain his home for 13 years. The property was built in 1605, and rather than being one huge building like Buckingham Palace, it is made up of a number of properties as more of an upscale complex. The apartments had the feel of an elegant townhouse, and the decor was chosen by his mother, Princess Diana. Harry's domain was the nursery, which took up the whole top floor of the three-story home. The suite included rooms for William and Harry, their nannies, and protection officers as well as bathrooms, playrooms, and a kitchen. Dragons of Walton Street were responsible for the fresh, light decor and strawberry-print carpet.

The distinctive Cotswold stone property is located in the tiny hamlet of Doughton in Gloucestershire and was built in 1796. It was Harry's home since birth, and he still visits his father there. It has four reception rooms, nine bedrooms, six bathrooms, and a nursery wing, and it's a typical country retreat with a less formal style than Kensington Palace — all squashy sofas and armchairs, overflowing bookshelves, and riotous plants. Interior designer Robert Kime was in charge of redecorating the property after Charles and Diana separated, while the gardens have been Charles's passion project and range from wildflower meadows to an English kitchen garden overflowing with fruit and vegetables and ornately lavish beds of flowers to a nook made entirely from tree roots. William and Harry's childhood tree house still stands in the holly bush.

Harry was at Eton from 1998 to 2003, and a glimpse into his bedroom at the time gives an intriguing insight into the young man he was becoming. Fiercely patriotic, he had hung a St. George's Cross flag on his wall, but his insatiable appetite for travel meant that it nestled alongside artifacts he'd collected from his travels around the world: a wall hanging and a scarf draped along the top of his chest of drawers. It's telling too though that he had decorated the wall hanging with cutouts of pin-up girls.

There were no antiques here — the furniture was inexpensive and the kind of thing to be found in student digs all around the country. Harry further decorated with photos of his mother and his friends, blue check bed linen, and the famous black and white poster of workmen taking lunch on a girder while building the Rockefeller Plaza.

After Charles and Diana separated, Charles moved into St. James's Palace nearby, so when William and Harry were away from boarding school for weekends and holidays and they weren't with their mother at Kensington Palace, they stayed with their father at his new property, York House. Then when the Queen Mother died in 2002, Charles moved in to her former home, Clarence House, which is also in St. James's Palace. Although Harry was stationed in assorted army barracks during this time, the four-floor property — containing the quaintly named garden room and morning room — was his official residence and his main base. The home is light and airy and was refurbished by Charles's favourite interior designer, Robert Kime, in a classic, formal style. Walls jostle with paintings and pictures, and all surfaces are covered with antiques, lamps, and framed photos. Furnishings include marble fireplaces, priceless antiques, and — in a concession to cost-cutting — bronze leaf instead of gold leaf.

Although this was only Harry's home from September 2012 to January 2013, there are many who would argue that he has always felt more comfortable in basic surroundings than palaces, so his living quarters here were packed with insights into what makes him tick. When he was on duty, Harry would be stationed with his team of three men in the Very High Readiness block, which looked like a cross between a sixth form common room and a children's den but with some very army adjustments. The large tented apartment with linoleum on the floor was filled with makeshift furniture. Tables were made from empty ammunition boxes, the four of them played video games while sitting on battered leatherette sofas that had burst apart and were stuck back together with gaffer tape, and shell cases were used as ashtrays. They slept in single beds with a sleeping bag but no sheets.

When they weren't on high alert, they slept in Portacabins stacked on top of each other. There wasn't much room for personalising, and they were only there for a few months at a time, but Harry brought a rug from home and further decorated with an additional Afghan rug that he was given.

Harry moved out of Clarence House and back into Kensington Palace in 2012, around the time that William and Kate moved from Anglesey into Nottingham Cottage so they could oversee renovations to Apartment 1A. Harry moved into a small one-bedroom apartment next door, and his makeshift digs were his home for a year, before William and Kate moved and Harry took over Nottingham Cottage. This has now been his home for four years and is where Meghan Markle stays when she visits. It is one of the smallest of the properties, with just two bedrooms. It has been reported that his next move — perhaps with Meghan — will be to another part of Kensington Palace — either Harry's childhood home of Apartments 8 and 9; Apartment 1, which is next to William and Kate and currently occupied; or Wren Cottage, which is also currently occupied.