Revelations at Kensington Palace - Telegraph In a few months" time, her eldest son and his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are to move into a private apartment in the palace, one formerly occupied by his great-aunt Princess Margaret. But despite its high profile as a grace-and-favour house share for junior royalty, the location of the palace, and precisely where the entrance is, are questions that have confused visitors for decades. No more looming security fences, dank shrubberies, random groups of trees and small finger signs pointing the visitor to an obscure side door. Instead, a new three-acre public garden has been created to the south and east of the palace, and more than 250 new trees have been planted. The sleight of hand that has made the landscape more welcoming and coherent is that of landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan and his business partner James Fox, who, in 2008, won the competition to renovate this historic site. They used the work of Charles Bridgeman, royal gardener 1728-1738, as the catalyst for making sense of this multilayered site. Two new gravelled paths from the Broad Walk, as well as a series of grass terraces studded with clipped yew, guide the visitor to the new entry loggia. A wild flower sward has been formed on the south lawn, park fencing has replaced high security railings and the Golden Gates have been stripped of modern additions. "We've added new layers but kept the best of the old," says Longstaffe-Gowan. The Wiggly Walk - a path that snakes through a hornbeam plantation - is a nod to Bridgeman and among the more curious additions to the gardens, but provides ramp access. The principle behind the renovation is that it is no longer a park with a palace at its edge but a garden with a palace at its heart. Not that they want anyone to notice: "One hopes that many visitors will suspect the gardens were ever thus. This, in my view, would be the greatest compliment," says Longstaffe-Gowan.