The royal household’s Christmas traditions run deep — however there’s one which Prince William admitted he doesn’t participate in.
Earlier this month, the Prince of Wales, 42, confessed at a celebration for the first Battalion Mercian Regiment — the place he handed out Christmas presents to kids and households alike — that he doesn’t personal a Christmas sweater, per Hello!.
After 14-year-old Dylan Potter advised the royal that he was sporting two festive Christmas sweaters, William laughed, pointed to himself and mentioned, “Some folks don’t even personal one.”
When he was requested why he wasn’t sporting a sweater, Prince William pointed throughout the room at his new equerry, Squadron Chief Mike Reynolds, and jokingly mentioned, “I didn’t know. You see that man within the jacket? It’s his fault, and I can be having a phrase.”
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He might not have a Christmas sweater available, however the Prince of Wales is at present participating in Christmas Day festivities with many different members of the royal household at Sandringham, the place the household historically spends the vacation. Along with the custom of opening gag presents on Christmas Eve, Prince William, his spouse Kate Middleton, 42, and their three kids Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, took half within the conventional Christmas Day stroll to church at St. Mary Magdalene on the Sandringham property earlier than watching King Charles’ annual Christmas speech at 3 p.m. U.Ok. time.
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William is anticipated to spend the vacation with 45 members of his household “multi functional room,” Prince William mentioned, including they’re “usually unfold out.” Whereas on that very same go to in Wiltshire, the Prince of Wales admitted that one in all his favourite elements of Christmas is occurring an extended stroll with the canine is at all times a Dec. 25 spotlight.
“We spoke about what he was as much as for Christmas and having fun with walks along with his canine at Sandringham,” Leah St. Clair-Lewis advised Hello!. She represents WRVS Providers Welfare, a charity that gives welfare to members of the British Military.
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The royal household are recognized canine lovers, from Queen Elizabeth’s well-known corgis to the Wales household’s black cocker spaniel, Orla, who will little doubt be a part of her household for Christmas at Sandringham. It is going to be a bittersweet stroll with the canine for Queen Camilla, who misplaced her Jack Russell Terrier Beth earlier this yr — although her different canine of the identical breed, Bluebell, will little doubt be available for the standard stroll on Sandringham’s grounds.
