When the Cambridge kids visit their great-granny in Windsor, you won’t find them in a run-of-the-mill plastic play house. No, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis get to frolic in the Queen’s historic “Wendy house,” as they’re called in the UK?a beautiful, life-sized structure with electricity, running water and a functioning bathroom, according to Hello! Canada.
We can see it now?the trio running through the rooms, popping their heads out of the windows and playing a game of house, with Louis forced to be the baby to George and Charlotte’s daddy and mummy, again. It’s almost too cute to handle.
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The coolest part is that they’re walking in their great-grandmother’s footsteps, where the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret, were photographed playing as little girls on numerous occasions as early as 1932, when the play house was built as a gift from the people of Wales. At the time, the Queen was just five years old, and according to People, the structure perfectly fits children who are four feet tall or smaller. Prince William and Kate’s kids aren’t the first of the Queen’s descendants to hang at Y Bwthyn Bach, which translates to ‘The Small House,’ and is located on the grounds of the Royal Lodge at Windsor Castle. Speaking in the 2012 documentary The Diamond Queen, Her Majesty’s granddaughter, Princess Beatrice, who also grew up at...