Including her favourite festive tipple
Inside Sandringham: Holidaying With The Queen,Charting details of the royal family's Christmas traditions at the much-loved country retreat, the 60-minute documentary gave an insight into where they eat their dinner, how they spend Christmas Eve and how the grand tree is decorated.
For more than 100 years, the beautiful estate at Sandringham has hosted the royals for their ultimate Christmas celebrations. But what festive traditions do they abide by?A tradition that stems from Germany, the royals exchange gifts on Christmas Eve after attending a church carol service at St Mary Magdalene Church. This is when the celebrations truly kick off, as members of the family get into the festive spirit.
According to insiders, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are the only ones who break this tradition as they allow their three young children to open presents on Christmas Day.According to the documentary, the celebrations begin on Christmas Eve when the Queen delivers a toast with a Martini."I think the Queen likes a Martini, other people would rather have champagne," Ingrid Seward, editor of3.
In the documentary, royal commentator Dickie Arbiter said:"[The Sandringham estate] is decorated in much the same way as people throughout the United Kingdom decorate their tree. You’ve got the baubles, the tinsel, the coloured lights." "There's no stencilling or faxing or anything like that, and the card count runs into hundreds. All the staff get a card, then friends get a card. There are people you've got send cards to and people you want to send cards to, but every card is signed by both of them," he continues, reports
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