Photo: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018
Looking for inspiration for the holiday season? With three months to go until Christmas, a definitive account of how the royals celebrate has been compiled just in time for the big countdown.
Now a new book from the Royal Collection,A Royal Christmas(out Oct. 18), uses the Royal Archives to show off 150 celebratory objects and lore.
The Christmas Tree
Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018
Queen Elizabeth, who joked this year about her great-grandchildren enjoying“knocking” the ornaments offher tree, donates Christmas trees to schools and churches around Sandringham annually.
The Gifts
Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, would shower her with presents of fine jewelry. One she valued the most, according to the book, was a brooch with an enamel portrait of their first child, Victoria, in the “guise of a cherub,” given on Christmas 1841. Victoria would write that it had been “entirely his own idea and taste.”
The Cards
The Feast
The Entertainment
ARoyal Christmas($13.20) is available from theRoyal Collection Truston October 18.
source: people.com
