It’s formally Christmas break for Kate Middleton, Prince William, and their three children, as a lot as any member of the more and more busy royal household will get to take break day. Lambrook School, the Berkshire establishment attended by Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, closed for the vacations on Friday, December 13, for a three-and-a-half-week break that ends on January 8, 2025.
That college vacation is already beginning to guide up, it appears. The annual Together at Christmas carol occasion is already of their rearview mirrors (the in-person live performance was December 6, with a UK broadcast scheduled for Christmas Eve), and the household has headed to their longstanding nation house of Anmer Hall, Kate Middleton and Prince William’s informal abode on the royals’ Sandringham Estate. The Georgian-style home, a marriage present to the couple from Queen Elizabeth II, is reportedly haunted—however ghosts seem like a part of the British Christmas custom if Charles Dickens is to be believed.
Also a part of the household’s custom is the annual household celebration at Sandringham, which begins with a Christmas Day service at Sandringham Church then—per Princess Diana—a noon dinner punctuated with “silly behavior” and inside jokes. This yr, royal sources say, about 40 relations will probably be current for “one of the biggest family Christmases ever.”
“Actually the plan is for them to all be at Sandringham for a very special big family Christmas. William and Catherine and the children will be there. The king and queen want their nearest and dearest with them to celebrate,” a supply instructed Vanity Fair earlier this week.
Reportedly absent from the visitor listing are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in addition to their youngsters Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The couple, who’re mentioned to stay estranged from William and Kate, in addition to King Charles III and Queen Camilla, reportedly invited two of that 40-guest listing to skip out on Sandringham for a celebration in sunny California. According to The Daily Express, Harry and Meghan invited Harry’s cousin, Princess Eugenie, her husband, Jack Brooksbank, and their children, August and Ernest, to their Montecito house for the vacations. As of publication time, it’s unknown if that invitation was accepted.