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This was her sweet Christmas tradition with her great-grandchildren
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Like many people, Queen Elizabeth is said to have always thoroughly enjoyed the holidays and family time, and established a heartwarming tradition with her youngest family members.
It’s no secret that British royals celebrate Christmas in their own unique way. Since the Windsors already have everything you could wish for anyway, Queen Elizabeth, †96, King Charles, 74, and Co. have traditionally given each other cheap and bizarre gifts. But that’s not the only Christmas tradition the late monarch stuck to.
This decoration did not come to Queen Elizabeth’s palace
Whether it’s Buckingham Palace or Sandringham, the royal estates shine in a sea of lights in the run-up to Christmas and are festively decorated with opulent Christmas trees and wreaths. However, attention was and is paid to traditional decoration, because Queen Elizabeth is said to have had a certain aversion to a certain tree decoration, as Charles’ and Queen Camillas, 75, former butler Grant Harrold now reveals.
“A lot of people use tinsel, but in a royal house, you’re more likely to find greens, baubles and lights, not tinsel,” he told Mirror. When Charles and Camilla opened the doors of Clarence House for seriously ill children a few days ago, it was evident that they also did without the so-called angel hair on their tree.
When it came to decorations, Queen Elizabeth always got support from her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “I heard the Queen at Sandringham left one of the trees bare in one of the rooms so the children could decorate it,” reveals Harrold, adding, “It was a tradition she started.” The kids would have been happy about the special task and the cute rite was repeated every year.
Royal Family is facing a particularly emotional Christmas
But this year, the British royal family has to spend Christmas without the monarch for the first time. The pain of the loss of the monarch is still present. Accordingly, the holidays will probably be moving for the royal family.
“I think it’s going to be very emotional for them this year and I have no doubt that tears will be shed the day or night before because they’re going to remember them,” Harrold recently told Mirror, adding confidently added: “But I’m also sure that it will be a fun time for the younger ones and it will continue as the Queen would have wanted.”
Source used: mirror.co.uk