Have you ever wondered how the royal family celebrate at Christmas? We take a closer look inside their Sandringham festivities - and some of their unusual traditions

Members of the British royal family exchange gifts every Dec. 24 — not on Christmas morning as many families do. As Prince Harry put it in his 2023 memoir, Spare, doing so is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.”

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As Prince Harry explained in his memoir, Spare, it is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.”

The Royal Family have many of their own traditions, with one of the biggest being their Christmas plans. Each year, members of the Royal Family gather at Sandringham with the monarch to celebrate the festive season,

Former palace chef Darren McGrady elaborated on the contents of the meal to the Sun, revealing the royals usually eat "salad with shrimp or lobster, and a roasted turkey, and all of your traditional side dishes like parsnips, carrots, brussels sprouts and Christmas pudding with brandy butter for dessert.”

Though Meghan Markle and Prince Harry haven't spent Christmas with the British royal family since 2018, that doesn't stop the annual flurry of will-they, won't-they rumors come holiday season. Perhaps unsurprisingly,