Christmas with the royal family: the most beautiful vintage photos (and not only)

No grandchildren, no children, nothing Sandrigham. This Christmas in was Covid it will be different for too Elizabeth II. For the first time in 33 years, his Majesty will not go to the mansion in the countryside to celebrate with the whole royal family. It will pass his loneliest Christmas ever, the first without any of his four children, in Windsor. In the castle the spectacular decorations – a six-meter tree, a table set with 5,000 pieces of silver, rooms embellished with red and gold decorations – are ready.

Not just for the Queen, but because Windsor as usual will be open for visits during the holidays. In the meantime Elisabetta will take refuge in her private apartments: a reserved area of ​​the castle in which they will be just her and Prince Philip.

This will be a different Christmas for the other members of the royal family as well. Each will remain isolated in their own “bubble”. For example William, Kate and their three children George, Charlotte and Louis they could spend the holidays on their estate at Anmer Hall, Norfolk. Or in Berkshire, at the home of Carole and Michael Middleton, where Kate’s sister Pippa, with her husband James (in Great Britain, from 23 to 27 December, they will be able to unite within the same “bubble” three families).

This year, in short, we will not see the Windsors who go to the traditional Christmas mass in the church of St Mary Magdalene, in Sandringham, greeted by a large crowd. Even those images we have been used to for years, of course, will not be there. While waiting to find out in detail how the most isolated Christmas ever of the British royal family will unfold, we have collected (in gallery in alto) the most beautiful vintage photos (and not only) of the Christmas of the royals before the coronavirus: from the principles Harry and William children on a sled full of toys at the Sandringham debut of Meghan Markle, passing through lady Diana having a chat with “Santa Claus” e Sarah Ferguson posing on a giant elephant-shaped puppet among the decorations of a London department store.

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