Inside the ridiculously boujee Windsor Farm Shop where Kate Middleton was finally spotted

Of course they sell smoked pheasant crisps

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After weeks of the Where Is Kate Middleton saga raging online, the Princess of Wales was finally “spotted” outside The Windsor Farm Shop on Monday afternoon. The footage, obtained by The Sun and TMZ showed her strolling along merrily – shopping bag in hand – with no visible security or admirers swarming her. Just the woman the world has been looking for for the past three weeks – magically re-emerged with no fanfare at the local farm shop. Like what is going on?

But the bigger question here, over where Kate has been (if she’s well, if she uses photoshop, if a lookalike has been deployed etc) is what is in that farm shop which caused Kate to finally come out of hiding long before her official return to the public eye on Easter Sunday. What craving did she have? How crispy can the bread be? What chutney is on offer? Is there a banging cafe? Let’s take a closer look:

Okay, so what actually is Windsor Farm Shop?

So I can confirm, live from Windsor Farm Shop, that the pods are still here and so are the lights/decorations. I commented to staff I thought it’d be busy due to our famous guests. They just laughed 🤷‍♀️ Spent £12.67 I didn’t need to as well. Receipt attached 🤣 pic.twitter.com/2iLTH3V8EI

— Debs 🌸 (@WindsorDebs) March 19, 2024

The Windsor Farm Shop is essentially Kate and William’s royal equivalent of our local Londis. The shop is down the road from Windsor Castle – just round the corner from their home in Adelaide Cottage, and opened in 2001 to “sell locally sourced goods and produce from the Royal Estates and The Great Park,” the official website says.

On the “mixed” Windsor Farm where the produce comes from, there are “200 pedigree Jersey milking cows, a pedigree Sussex beef herd, 140 breeding sows, 1500 Lohmann Brown hens and 1000 acres of arable land.”

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The shop building itself was made by “converting Victorian potting sheds and constructing two new buildings which became the Farm Shop and the Coffee Shop”. It’s decorated with some pretty twee fairy lights and, of course, those Christmas decorations. So, you get the overall British countryside vibe.

Right, and what can you buy from The Windsor Farm Shop?

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Let’s get one thing straight, The Windsor Farm Shop is boujee. It’s the type of shop you can’t seem to escape from without spending around £20 – even when you didn’t mean to. There’s hampers worth hundreds of pounds, the poshest roast dinner you’ve ever seen in your life, and – of course – tea and scones.

As you might expect, they sell a lot of royal merch

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Because, if the royal family aren’t going to be their own biggest fans then really what is the point x

Not going to lie, the food looks amazing

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The Windsor farm shop has literally everything your mum could ever need to make picky bits for tea. Pies, pasties, quiche are all spread out on the deli counter, plus fillings for homemade sandwiches, mini lamb samosas, huge scotch eggs, salmon, broccoli and dill pies— this place is like M&S on steroids.

They also sell stupidly posh snacks like pheasant crisps are food hampers which cost up to £220

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I didn’t know I needed a roasted pheasant and wild mushroom crips until today and now, the desire is all encompassing. This is just a standard snack at The Windsor Farm Shop where you can also buy humungous hampers filled with other snacks worth £220, which include: Duck pate, quince fruits for cheese, olive oil crackers, clotted cream fudge and strawberry and champagne jam. Ah, the simple things x

You can get a ‘royal farm roast’ if your normal Sunday lunch isn’t cutting it

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The Windsor Farm Shop say they’re “most proud” of the success of their “butchery department” where you can buy yourself a roast dinner from The Royal Farms. They, of course, make their own sausages and every year 600 pigs “pass through” the butchery. That’s one way to put it.

You can get tea, cake and scones in the farm shop cafe, where it seems like they might have been throwing shade at Meghan and Harry

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In The Windsor Farm Shop coffee shop you can get anything from cream tea and patisseries to paninis and salads. Tbh, the food looks like something you could and probably normally would get in Costa. So, I can’t imagine if I was in international hiding I’d break my house bound ways for this.

“Diabolical. No better than a roadside greasy spoon,” one TripAdvisor user claimed. “Never again would I eat here…It used to be delightful but now it’s virtually empty of all the previous lovely goodies.”

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Interestingly, one item which used to be on the cafe’s menu was a “Sussex Fruit Cake”, which tbh seems like a slightly shady item to choose to name after Meghan and Harry. Just saying x

And what exactly did Kate Middleton buy at The Windsor Farm Shop?

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Tragically, we may never know exactly what lured Kate Middleton to The Windsor Farm Shop the fateful afternoon she was spotted. However, one insider told TMZ it may have been the bread as they saw “a couple choosing loaves”. Case closed x

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