Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to live at Nottingham Cottage

THINGS will be cosy for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry when she moves full-time into his bachelor pad at Kensington Palace.

THINGS will be cosy for the glamorous Meghan Markle and Prince Harry when she moves full-time into his bachelor pad, Nottingham Cottage, in the Kensington Palace estate.

A royal residence since 1689, the cottage, known in royal circles as “Nott’s Cott’’, is a tiny two-bedroom home set within the grounds of Kensington Palace in central London, and is not particularly salubrious.

Usually referred to as “snug’’, it has two “reception rooms’’, a kitchen and a tiny yard, and has been Harry’s home since 2013.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will live at Nottingham Cottage, within the grounds of Kensington Palace.

Meghan has been living there with her beau whenever she’s been in London.

What it lacks in style it makes up for in security and privacy, and is set away from public view, and the prying lenses of the paparazzi.

Prince William and his wife Catherine lived there after they married in 2011, and previous occupants have included Prince Philip’s private secretary, Brigadier Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, and his wife Gay, and Princess Diana’s sister Lady Jane Fellowes and her husband Sir Robert Fellowes.

An aerial view of Kensington Palace, where Harry and Meghan have set up home.

The cottage is the smallest of the royal accommodations within Kensington Palace, a large royal estate set within Kensington Gardens, on the western edge of Hyde Park.

William and Catherine and their children Prince George 4, and Princess Charlotte, 2, live in a large apartment in the main Kensington Palace building next-door.

Other residents currently include more junior members of the royal family including Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Duke and Duchess of Gloucester.

The couple’s cottage is the smallest of the royal accommodations within Kensington Palace.

Parts of Kensington Palace are open to the public, and those prepared to fork out the equivalent of about $27 can access a number of the grand rooms, enjoy tea and wander the gardens.

Brides wanting to be treated like a princess for a day can also hire one of several main rooms or lawn areas for their wedding receptions.

Harry’s parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana lived in an apartment in the main palace when they were first married and William and Harry spent their early years there.

Princess Diana remained there after her marriage to Charles disintegrated, and it was her official residence at the time she will killed in a car accident in Paris in 1997.

King William III and Queen Mary II bought Nottingham Cottage in 1689 and moved in on Christmas Eve that year. It was later remodelled as a palace by the architect who designed St Paul’s Cathedral, Christopher Wren.