King Charles' ex-butler reveals Christmas decoration royals NEVER use - Daily Mail

King Charles' erstwhile butler has revealed the 1 Christmas decoration the royals ne'er usage connected their trees astatine Christmas. 

Grant Harrold worked for King Charles betwixt 2004 and 2011 astatine his Gloucestershire residence Highgrove. 

Speaking to the Mirror, the erstwhile royal butler opened up astir the Royal Family's Christmas traditions.  

The insider said that the royals effort not to overdo it with decorations and volition ne'er usage tinsel.

He said: 'Everybody gets the tinsel but if you spell to a royal home, it is simply a batch much greenery, baubles and lights, not tinsel.'

Earlier this week, Kensington Palace released a caller photograph of the Princess of Wales proudly lasting successful beforehand of her tree astatine what appears to beryllium the family's London residence.

As Grant predicted, the stylishly decorated fir does not diagnostic a scrap of tinsel.

Instead, the mother-of-three alternatively opted for velvet maroon bows, metallic ornaments and a drawstring of lights. 

Meanwhile, the Queen Consort welcomed earnestly sick children to Clarence House earlier this period to assistance her decorate her tree. 

The children - who are supported by 2 of her patronages, Helen & Douglas House and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity - took their prime from a enactment of red-and-white decorations to bent connected the branches, including mini stockings and angels.  

Although the Queen was said to instrumentality a strict attack with her ain Christmas trees, Grant said the precocious monarch had a saccharine contented for the younger members of the Royal Family.

He continued: 'I heard that astatine Sandringham, the Queen utilized to put for 1 of the trees successful 1 of the rooms to beryllium near bare for the kids to decorate it.

'It was a contented that she started and the grandkids would travel successful and they would each bash a spot of decorating, which I thought was ever rather a bully idea.'

This twelvemonth marks the archetypal clip the Royal Family volition observe Christmas without the Queen aft she passed distant astatine the property of 96 successful September.

The royals are inactive expected to be a work astatine St Mary Magdalene Church connected the Sandringham Estate earlier returning location for their Christmas meal.

In November, it was reported King Charles invited Meghan Markle and Prince Harry to the family's Christmas celebrations, contempt them quitting royal duties astir 3 years ago.

But a root adjacent to the King said: ‘They are improbable to attend.’ 

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip that Charles hosts the yearly household gathering and Christmas interruption astatine the backstage property successful Norfolk.

The Prince and Princess of Wales volition beryllium there, staying astatine adjacent Anmer Hall, the location they were fixed by the Queen.

Other household members are expected to articulation the King and Queen Consort connected their locomotion to religion connected Christmas morning.

The Royal Family has made Sandringham their basal for Christmas and New Year since 1988.

Although the household traditionally spends the vacation astatine the state estate, the past fewer years had seen a alteration successful regular owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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