King Charles and Queen Camilla are spending Christmas with their family.
The monarch, 75, and his wife, 76, lead the royal family on their annual walk to church on Christmas Day. Every year they attend a service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk, near the royal residence Sandringham.
Both King Charles and Queen Camilla walked with an umbrella, ready for any rain.
Queen Camilla wore a blue paisley silk dress under an Anna Valentine camel cashmere coat and a Philip Treacy beret. She added a memory of the late Queen Elizabeth, her raspberry stone brooch.
Last year — during the first Christmas of King Charles’ reign, which took place just months after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth — the royals returned to their traditional holiday outing for the first time since 2019, as they had to forgo large family gatherings in 2020 and 2021. .in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
They were joined by other family members, including Charles’ son and heir Prince William with his family — wife Kate Middleton and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.
King Charles and Queen Camilla at Christmas 2023.
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This year will be a special holiday for Queen Camilla. While Camilla would have left the royal family’s Christmas gathering in the afternoon to spend time with her children and grandchildren on holidays in past years, King Charles has reportedly invited his wife’s family to Sandringham this year.
According to a report from ITV’s royal family editor Chris Ship last month, Queen Camilla’s children – Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes – and other members of her family were due to join the lunch for the first time this year.
An expanded guest list may mean a change of venue for the turkey feast. In a departure from the past and the days of the late Queen Elizabeth, members of the royal family could sit down for lunch in the grand ballroom instead of the dining room.
Other long-standing holiday traditions are likely to remain, from exchanging gifts on Christmas Eve to watching the broadcast of King Charles’ speech at 3pm on Christmas Day.
“Charles was always very, very fond of Sandringham,” royal biographer Ingrid Seward told PEOPLE last year. “Christmas in any family is always connected with tradition. He will keep it the same as it was.”
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Kate Middleton, Princess Charlotte, Prince George, Prince William and Prince Louis on Christmas 2023.
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As in recent years, King Charles’ son Prince Harry and daughter-in-law Meghan Markle did not attend the Christmas gathering in Great Britain. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live in California with son Prince Archie and daughter Princess Lilibet, have not spent Christmas with the royal family since 2018.
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