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The Queen’s festivities in Windsor, including (staggered) visits from relatives, walks with corgi and lots of TV

For the second consecutive year, the Queen Elizabeth cause Covid had to forgo the traditional Christmas at Sandringham and adapt to spend the holidays in Windsor. This time her beloved husband is not even with her Filippo, who died last April at the age of 99 and remembered by the sovereign in her touching Christmas message. Now that she can no longer count on Philip’s presence, the days in Windsor Castle, especially these days, may seem sad and interminable. Because of this the other members of the royal family never leave her alone. At lunch, a snack and dinner, during the holidays the sovereign is always in the company of a relative. At the very restricted “banquet” on December 25, to say, it seems there were Carlo and Camilla.

At one time the queen would have dedicated her free time in Windsor to her loved ones as well horseback riding. After the short admission to King Edward VII Hospital last October, however, the court doctors ordered her to rest and just as much waivers. To be honest, he had had to say goodbye to horseback riding, following some physical ailments, since last summer. But take advantage of the Christmas holidays for visit the royal stables more often, allowing himself to be updated on their activities by John Warren, the trusted manager of his team of racehorses.

The doctors would have forbidden the sovereign even the walks in the park of the castle with his family beloved dogs, two corgi and a dorgi. However, it seems that The Queen, in these days of celebration, is at least “disobeying” this diktat. Taking short walks in which he would often accompany her Sophie di Wessex, wife of the fourth child Edoardo.

But the Christmas holidays, for Her Majesty, are also an excellent opportunity to do feast of tv in his favorite parlor in Windsor. Sitting on a rather old sofa, and with a next to it electric heater always on, the queen in the company of the seamstress Angela Kelly and the private secretary Sir Edward Young loves to watch comedy shows, quizzes and old movies including his favorite: early 1980s sci-fi film Flash Gordon, which has been in His Majesty’s Christmas “schedule” since time immemorial.

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