2023-12-23 07:00:43
In the United Kingdom, Royal Christmas takes place at Sandringham, the private home of King Charles III and the Windsors. In addition to the public religious service and the crowd bath that follows, in addition to the royal address (a supreme tradition which dates back to 1932 with George V), the British ritual involves… pudding and thorns. The personnel serving their majesties receive the sacrosanct “Christmas pudding” while different schools are offered Christmas trees, straight from the family estate. A royal gift in short.
In the private sphere of the Windsors, humor invites itself at the foot of the traditional post-buffet “cup of tea”. Each member competes in originality to find the most surprising and funniest gifts. And then there is a ritual that many of us prefer to do without and which, according to Majesty magazine, was imposed by the Queen on her guests: weighing before and after the Christmas meal. If we gained weight, it’s because we ate well! A strange tradition which we do not know if it really existed and survived today…
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