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Dec 21, 2023 · During Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the lunch was usually held at Buckingham Palace but King Charles has hosted it at Windsor for two years in a row.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married in February 1840. They celebrated every one of their 20 Christmases together at Windsor Castle. Their gifts to family and friends were arranged on tables decorated with seasonal foliage and small individual Christmas trees.
Dec 21, 2021 · Along with changing plans for her annual Christmas break at Sandringham, the Queen also cancelled her traditional pre-Christmas lunch at Windsor Castle, where she was set to host members...
Dec 21, 2022 · Queen Victoria's 1899 menu from her royal Christmas lunch at Windsor Castle had followers fascinated when it was published on the Royal Collection Trust Instagram account. In other royal news, King Charles began Christmas at Windsor as royals arrived for the first festive lunch without the Queen.
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Far from the cozy family affair of a traditional modern Christmas promoted by Victoria, medieval courtly gatherings were spectacular occasions for public demonstrations of wealth and power. William the Conqueror was crowned at Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066, and the following year, at his Christmas Assembly in Gloucester, he commissioned D...
The Tudor and Stuart periods marked a dazzling high point of Christmas revels among royalty and nobility. Christmas Day was reserved for serious religious devotions, but frivolity reigned through the rest of the Twelve Days of Christmas with a Lord of Misrule to oversee entertainments that scattered normal order and created merry mayhem, echoing th...
Henry VIII loved “disgysings,” or fancy dress, costing him £584 over just one Christmas. His daughter Elizabeth I was even more boisterous, with one court observer recording in 1572 that she had been entertained by “certayne masters of defence, that did challenge all comers at all weapons, as long-sworde, staff, sword and buckler, rapier with the d...
Sword fights aside, courtly culture entered a golden age, with Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights much in demand over Christmas—Twelfth Night, for example, was probably performed before Elizabeth I's court during the revels of 1601-2. The Stuarts enjoyed the great artistic collaborations between Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones, who wrote and stage...
Royalty led the way in the shape of German King George I, who insisted on plum pudding at his first English Christmas in 1714. More significantly, Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, caused a sensation on Christmas Day 1800 at Windsor when she threw a party for children of the principal local families; taking an idea from her German homeland,...
Queen Victoria cherished Christmas—“this happy, most blessed Festival”—as a family occasion, spent mostly at Windsor Castle or, after Albert's death (1861), at Osborne House, Isle of Wight. It is no coincidence that during her reign so many of today's seasonal features—trees, cards, crackers—came to prominence. Gift-giving now took place at Christm...
Our own Royal Family, attending church at Sandringham on Christmas Day before enjoying a festive lunch, sets the tone for many folks around the country today. Fortunately, the King won't have to interrupt his celebrations to make his first Christmas Day Broadcast; since 1960 it has been prerecorded. “Joke” presents are reportedly de rigueur, with a...
Dec 21, 2022 · A dinner menu from the Royal Family's Christmas at Windsor Castle has left some folks confused, as fans question the language of the historical document. The Royal Collection Trust (RCT) shared a photo of Queen Victoria's Christmas menu from 1899 with its Instagram followers on Tuesday.
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Dec 25, 2021 · Today, the Queen usually spends much of early December at Buckingham Palace, distributing Christmas presents to all of her staff and attending a carol service in the Royal Mews. At Windsor, where she retreats on weekends, she also typically attends a carolling performance by the Windsor Castle choir at the Sovereign’s Entrance.
