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A Sneak Peek Inside Kate Middleton’s Childhood Home

Today Show viewers got a sneak peek into Kate Middleton’s past this morning, as NBC’s Michelle Kosinski took them inside the future princess’ childhood home.

The semi-detached Victorian, known as West View, is up for auction in June.

The asking price is 550,000 pounds, or roughly $888,000. Estate agents say this is three times what it was worth when Middleton lived there in her youth.

The home, which is modest by American standards, is located in Bradford Southend in Berkshire. Its brick facade is enlivened by a shiny red door, but other than that it looks a stock example of other homes in the area.

Kosinski viewed the property with Estate Agent Dudley Singleton. Interestingly enough, the family which currently occupies the residence were at home during the walk through.

While Kozinski and Singleton made references to Middleton’s “humble” upbringing and her “rags to riches story” during the tour, I’m more inclined to agree with the kid who they interrupted playing in the back yard.

“It’s like a normal house,” he said, in a very I-don’t-know-what-the-fuss-is-all-about kind of way.

The young girl playing in the upstairs room which was Middleton’s nursery as a baby seemed equally non-plussed. When Kozinski slipped a tiara on the child’s head and asked her about fairy tale magic, she just kind of shrugged it off, saying that all her friends like to come over now.

The soon-to-be-royal’s former bedroom (which she presumably occupied once she was out of the nursery until her family sold the home when she was 13) was actually the master. One has to wonder if she had the space all to herself, of if she shared with sister Phillipa.

The part of the property which tells the most about Middleton’s history isn’t the house, though, but rather the garden shed where her entrepreneur father started his Party Pieces business. When the business took off, they sold the West View house and moved on to bigger and better things. (Although they’ve stayed in the same neighborhood.)

Kate, of course, went on to win the heart – and hand – of England’s future king.

Interestingly enough, even though the house has been featured on Royal Wedding websites the world over, the owners have yet to get any serious “bites” on the property.

The only interest they’ve gotten, it seems, is from the media.

Oopsie.

I hope for there sake it fairs better when it goes up for auction in two months time.

By then, Kate Middleton and Prince William will be officially wed. (If you don’t already have it on your calendar, the royal wedding will take place on April 29.) Maybe that will help attract more interest from buyers.

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