Princess Diana found the rigid protocols and traditions of royal Christmases stifling and impersonal.
Princess Diana found the royal Christmas traditions to be stiff and impersonal, marked by rigid protocols that left her feeling like an outsider. During her first holiday season with the family, the princess, who'd splashed out on luxury presents, was left mortified on Christmas Eve, when she discovered that the Royal Family only exchanged homemade gifts. Diana used to always leave after lunch. When things were really not going at all well, she was to dread these royal family Christmases.
And she would always—and sometimes she escaped even before lunch and just did the church. Not always but a few times I remember yes, I remember her passing me on the motorway coming back once
PRINCESS DIANA ROYAL CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS FAMILY PROTOCOLS
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