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How Queen Victoria's Christmas Trees Became a Royal Legacy Through the Ages: Photos
How Queen Victoria's Christmas Trees Became a Royal Legacy Through the Ages: Photos IRS offers tax benefits for military and veterans Biden signs 50 bills, including 1 backed by Paris Hilton, on Christmas Eve 14 Aldi Secrets You'll Wish You Knew Sooner Orca carried her dead calf for 17 days. She now has a new baby
Young royals sweet Christmas tradition - and it dates back to Queen Victoria
Using fir trees at Christmas dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria - she popularised using these trees and traditionally three were brought to the Marble Hall in Buckingham Palace each year
12 Royal Family Christmas Traditions You Probably Didn't Know
Just like every other family, the royals also have their own set of special Christmas traditions. Here are 12 royal family Christmas traditions.
The Real Reason the Royal Family Opens Presents on Christmas Eve
As Prince Harry explained in his memoir, Spare, it is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.” In Germany, Christmas Eve (Heiliger Abend) is when the holiday is celebrated.
A Victorian Legacy: Why The Royal Family Opens Gifts On Christmas Eve
The Royal Family opens presents on Christmas Eve by German custom, a right brought into practice by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Why Does the Royal Family Open Their Presents on Christmas Eve and Not Christmas Morning?
It all harkens back to the British royal family’s deep German roots The royal family Christmas is synonymous with tradition, and one tradition that steadfastly remains while celebrating the holiday at Sandringham?
The German tradition the British Royal Family just can't let go of at Christmas
At Sandringham, where King Charles celebrates Christmas with his family, one particular German tradition is always followed.
How Queen Victoria Invented Christmas As We Know It
London newspaper The Illustrated News published an image of the royal family gathered around an eight-foot decorated fir tree ...
Royal Family's Christmas menu revealed - from Queen's 'favourite' dish to King's rules
Although the exact food spread may have changed a little over the years, when it comes to Christmas lunch for the royal ...
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The Christmas Tree’s Royal Roots: How Queen Victoria Popularized This Holiday Staple
Magazine. Alexander Bassano/Spencer Arnold/Getty; Hulton Archive/Getty Queen Victoria has an evergreen connection to the ...
Queen Victoria did not send the first Christmas card, says stamp expert
Fellow of Royal Philatelic Society has pinpointed caricatures sent three years before royal ‘first’ as the earliest festive ...
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The little church with an intriguing history that’s now the heart of the royal Christmas
It is a little church in a remote part of Norfolk but once a year, all eyes fall on it. St Mary Magadalene on the Sandringham ...
How the Royal Family Will Be Spending Christmas This Year
While in recent decades the Windsors have spent Christmas at Sandringham in Norfolk, the royals have a long history of ...
I stayed in a hotel visited by Queen Victoria and felt like I was in a Christmas film
Palé Hall, nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, is a luxurious Victorian mansion where you can experience the magic of ...
This year, Christmas and Hanukkah are on the same day. Here’s how some families are celebrating both.
Hanukkah, which commemorates a Jewish military victory in Jerusalem some 2,200 years ago, usually falls in December, and ...