Like every December 25, the British Royal Family met this Monday at Sandringham Church, located in Norfolk, the estate where its members have celebrated Christmas Day for decades. Although Charles III debuted last year as King, this is his first Christmas as host and official monarch since his coronation on May 6 of this year. Around 12:00 in the morning (11:00 in the United Kingdom), the sovereign and his wife, Queen Camilla, led the walk of the Royal Family to the temple of Saint Mary Magdalene, again showing a unit image in the Windsor, who have celebrated the Holidays together with the exception, once again, of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
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The 75-year-old monarch led the parade royal with a big smile while happily greeting all the attendees who were around the vicinity. Behind them, accompanying the Kings on this second Christmas without Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William and Kate Middleton, who wore a very elegant tight-fitting Klein blue coat with shoulder pads that mark her shoulders with a collar and flap pockets, which she paired with a headdress of the same color. The princes of Wales have also arrived very smiling with their three children: Georgeten years old, Charlotteeight, and Louisof five.
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This is the second Christmas that the youngest son of the princes of Wales joins the rest of the family to attend the religious service. As soon as he arrived, he captured everyone’s attention with his friendly personality. Louis wore blue tartan pants and was holding his cousin’s hand. Mia Tindall, Princess Anne’s eight-year-old granddaughter. For her part, princesa Charlotte As usual, she wore a dress with Mary Janes and never let go of her mother.
An unexpected debut and a notable absence at the Sandringham mass of the British Royal Family
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All the members of the British Royal Family have all been very smiling, especially King Charles III and his first-born, William of England, as well as Camilla, Princess of Wales and Princess Anne, who has arrived chatting casually with her husband, Timothy Laurence. One of the details that has attracted a lot of attention is that these last two have worn the same gray and camel houndstooth scarf. Walking in front of them, we have seen the couple formed by Zara and Mike Tindall with his daughter Lena.
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The surprising presence of Prince Andrew at Sandringham with the British Royal Family
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Lady Louise Windsor y los Dukes of Edinburgh, Sophie and Prince Edward also did not want to miss this very special event. All of them have been very happy despite the low temperatures that ranged between ten and thirteen degrees, so they have attended with winter outfits and umbrellas, since throughout the day the weather forecast predicted more than 80 % chance of rain. And even the monarchs themselves have carried umbrellas to the church in case a storm suddenly arrived.
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Prince Andrew has also attended the traditional Sandringham mass, a presence that this year has not attracted as much attention. In 2022 he already attended after several years without going. Behind him was Sarah Ferguson, who wore a long green coat with a hat and high-heeled boots of the same tone. Next to her, her daughters, Beatriz and Eugenia de York with their respective husbands, Edoardo Mapelli and Jack Brooksbank, who as soon as they arrived greeted everyone present who was in the vicinity of the church.
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At the end of the mass, around 1:00 p.m., Charles III and his wife left the church while they spoke with the Sandringham priest. Later, the princes of Wales came out with their children and Mia Tindall. The Princess of Wales exchanged a few words with her young son before approaching to greet the crowd outside to wish them a Merry Christmas. As we see in the images, hundreds of people have come to greet the English Royal Family on this special day.
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All the Windsors greeted the supporters who received them with applause and cheers. The princes of Wales and their children have been very close and especially friendly. They have been photographed with them and have even received several gifts such as bouquets of flowers and Christmas presents for the children. After this walk after the religious service, the Royal Family returns to Sandringham House to have lunch together and listen to the traditional Christmas speech of Charles III, which is broadcast at three in the afternoon.
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Camilla’s family for the first time at Sandringham House
Those who will be present for the first time at the Christmas meal are Camilla’s children, grandchildren and sister. Despite not having attended the mass, her family attended the lunch for the first time, joining members of the Royal Family at Sandringham to enjoy the festive celebrations together. Until now, Camilla regularly received her children and grandchildren at her private home in Wiltshire, which she has had since before she married Carlos and who likes to get away to recharge her batteries and rest. But this year, she wanted her sister Annabel Elliot, your son Tom Parker- Bowles (48), and his daughter Laura Lopes (45) with her husband Harry Lopes, come to this very special lunch.
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The little ones will also do it: Eliza (14), the twins Gus and Louis (13), children of Tom Parker and Lola, born in 2007, and Freddy, who came into the world in 2010, children of Laura, will sit at the table with the grandchildren of Charles III : Princes George, Charlotte and Louis, who will also be placed at this table for the first time.
The great absentees
Among the more than 40 guests at the Christmas meal, the biggest absentees were Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Despite rumors about his possible attendance and a rapprochement with the family, the latest stir caused by the publication of the book Endgame, has distanced them again. The book written by Omid Scobie, the journalist and biographer close to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, threw new and loud bombs about the almost non-existent relationship between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with the British Royal Family, such as that Prince William leaked information to harm his brother, which further deepens the unbridgeable gap between the two or the appointment of members of the Windsors who were branded as racists for asking about what the skin color of Archie, the couple’s eldest son, would be like.
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In his lines, the writer Scobie makes it clear that High-ranking royals were jealous of Harry and Meghan’s success and even claimed The Prince of Wales’s attempts to promote racial harmony are branded “opportunistic.” A text that further distances the brothers and the prince from his father, King Charles III. While all of his loved ones are gathered, Prince William spends Christmas in the United States with Meghan and her two children Archie and Lilibet.
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The food menu
The Christmas Day meal lasts exactly 50 minutes, which begins as soon as you arrive from the church, around 1:00 p.m. The decoration has a table linen service with starched white napkins neatly folded, silver candelabras, jugs of wine, and red and gold pretzels. Once seated they have a large lunch that includes a shrimp or lobster salad, roast turkey and all your traditional side dishes such as parsnips, carrots, Brussels sprouts and Christmas brandy butter pudding for dessert. To end the day, everyone stands together at 3:00 p.m. in front of the television to watch the monarch’s speech, recorded days before and which is the second that Carlos III addresses the nation as King.
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As if this were not enough, this same day they enjoy a buffet dinner with between fifteen and twenty courses with a variety of cut roast meats directly on the table, stuffed boar’s head, ox tongue, hams, seafood, vegetables, gingerbread cookies, pudding and drinks such as brandy or cider. To end the festivities, the next day, December 26, they begin the day with a breakfast of kedgereea traditional fish and rice dish made with curry powder, toast, bacon, eggs and cereal for pheasant hunting
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