The Windsors’ first Christmas as an extended family, with Queen Camilla’s children and grandchildren

For the British royal family, a Christmas with the extended family is on the horizon. This year in fact King Charles III – as royal expert Chris Ship revealed to ITV – breaking tradition has Queen Camilla’s two children were also invited to Sandringham House, in Norfolk. That is to say Tom and Laura, 48 years old, he, 45, born from Camilla’s first marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles. The invitation is naturally extended to five nephews of the current queen. Tom, a professional food critic, by his ex-wife Sara Buysfrom whom he separated in 2018, had two children: Lolaborn in 2007 and Frederickborn in 2010. For her part, Laura, owner of an art gallery in London and married to the former underwear model Harry Lopes, gave birth in 2008 Elizaand in 2009 i twins Gus and Louis.

«The list of those who will be invited to the Christmas lunch at Sandringham House has been radically changed and will include many members of Queen Camilla’s family for the first time», assures Ship. Camilla’s family also includes hers sister Annabel Elliotone of the “Queen’s companions” who replaced the ladies-in-waiting who attended Elizabeth II. Annabel was next to her sister during the coronation last May. And it is not excluded that she will be at Sandringham too.

In addition of course to the usual suspects, including of course the Prince William and Kate Middleton with their three children George, Charlotte and Louis. And then there should be Sarah Ferguson, who last year spent his first Christmas in thirty years at Sandringham. Prince Philip had banished her from the Norfolk residence – and from the Christmas lunch with the royal family – in 1992, when she had not yet been divorced from Andrea, she had been photographed topless in Saint Tropez while the Texan billionaire John Bryan sucked her toe. Since then Fergie had “always spent the holidays alone”. But when Charles ascended the throne, the veto on the duchess fell.

Every year, on Christmas Day, members of the royal family go to mass at St. Mary Magdalene Church and then return to Sandringham House for the festive lunch. THE This year there will be more diners than usual, although Harry and Meghan Markle will most likely not be there this time either (the last one was in 2018). So according to royal expert Chris Ship the Christmas meal «will not take place in the dining room as in Queen Elizabeth’s time but in the largest ballroom”.

In the past years, Camilla left the royal family’s Christmas gathering in the afternoon For spend time with children and grandchildren during the winter holidays. This time there will be no need: children and grandchildren will be at Sandringham together with her and the rest of the royal family.