Prince William's planet friendly palace

[katty]

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A starter palace for Prince William and Kate?
By Nick Britten
Last Updated: 11:12am GMT 31/01/2007


In pictures: A prince's palace
The Prince of Wales has been given the green light to build an eco-friendly house, rumoured to be a "starter home" for Prince William once he gets married.

Planning permission has been granted for the six-bedroom property in the grounds of the Duchy of Cornwall's Harewood Park Estate.

An architect's drawings of the 'palace'

The home, built to stringent environmental parameters, contains a chapel, a rainwater reservoir and stables, and draws heavily from Greek and Roman classical references.

A spokesman for the Prince said that it was designed to be rented out, but would not comment as to who it might be offered to.

Many Royal watchers believe Prince

[Fridays Child]

1. Why does it have to be so stuffy looking? Can't these people think outside the palace?

This would be way cooler...

[katty]

2. yeah, this is Way Cooler!

[LiberalEsto]

3. His dad's an architecture nut

and hates the modern stuff. That's why.

[Porcupine]

4. The drawings look like a power station.

Mysteriously Prince William's family can manage to make a 8,500 sq. ft. manse almost entirely eco-friendly while the Edwards can't. I give both buildings equal points on the ugly scale though.

It could turn out that the materials for the outside of Prince Williams house make up for the less than stellar show on the drawings.