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Will the royals go to Sandringham for Christmas this year?

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2anddone · 20/09/2022 15:15

Just watching Channel 5's 2017 Sandringham: The Queen at Christmas (don't judge me I am at home with Covid!)
I love local to Sandringham and didn't realise how much input the Queen had into the Christmas traditions (choosing stocking items etc) and then staying until her ascension day in February. Just made me wonder if now the Royal Family have lost their matriarch will it be similar to so many other families Christmas once the matriarch has passed and will they now do their own thing at Christmas? I imagine Kate might like a day with her own parents or Sophie with hers or those with younger children might want to stay in their own homes

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antelopevalley · 27/09/2022 16:53

Christmas Eve is at Sandringham. So no Sarah will only have seen the girls after that, probably at bedtime. She will have seen them before church. They go to the 11 am service. So she will have seen them early in the morning before they had to get dressed and head off. Sarah always stayed in a nearby cottage so she could see them at least for a bit of the day. But I always thought it was sad.
Sarah is supposed to have got totally screwed in her divorce.

Dinoteeth · 27/09/2022 16:58

I do think Sarah got a raw deal. I still think they'll end up remarried at some point.

ajandjjmum · 27/09/2022 18:27

antelopevalley · 27/09/2022 16:53

Christmas Eve is at Sandringham. So no Sarah will only have seen the girls after that, probably at bedtime. She will have seen them before church. They go to the 11 am service. So she will have seen them early in the morning before they had to get dressed and head off. Sarah always stayed in a nearby cottage so she could see them at least for a bit of the day. But I always thought it was sad.
Sarah is supposed to have got totally screwed in her divorce.

I think I'm right in saying that Sarah always stayed at Wood Farm, which is where Prince Philip spent his final years, before returning to Windsor.

antelopevalley · 27/09/2022 19:55

@ajandjjmum I know she stayed close by so she could see her children. But she spent most of the day alone. Seems particularly outrageous when the royal family children eat separately to the adults.

ajandjjmum · 27/09/2022 20:09

antelopevalley · 27/09/2022 19:55

@ajandjjmum I know she stayed close by so she could see her children. But she spent most of the day alone. Seems particularly outrageous when the royal family children eat separately to the adults.

I realise that - and it did seem very cruel. I was interested though that the cottage she stayed in became Philip's home in his latter years.

CathyorClaire · 27/09/2022 21:26

I do think Sarah got a raw deal

TBF she's more than had it made up to her since.

She's had the run of the magnificently refurbed Royal Lodge for decades along with the controversial ski chalet and been bailed out by Andrew's hideous mate who had more contact numbers for her in his little black book than even her reviled husband.

Her middle name has to be 'Teflon'.

TrashyPanda · 27/09/2022 23:11

ajandjjmum · 27/09/2022 20:09

I realise that - and it did seem very cruel. I was interested though that the cottage she stayed in became Philip's home in his latter years.

And of course it was the home of Prince John, youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary.

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