Kate Middleton's childhood home sold at auction. Middleton family home sold at auction. The childhood home of Prince William's wife Catherine was sold at auction on Friday to a local couple of teachers for £485,000.

West View, the four-bedroomed, detached house where the future royal bride grew up, is in the village of Bradfield Southend.

It is near to Bucklebury, where the Middleton family now live, in Berkshire, west of London.