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Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet have to follow an unusual royal Christmas<\/a> rule which prevents them opening their present on Christmas Day. In his controversial memoir Spare<\/a>, Prince Harry<\/a> revealed how the children open their gifts on Christmas Eve<\/a>, in a nod to the family\u2019s Anglo-Saxon heritage.<\/p>\n Harry goes into detail about the Christmas<\/a> tradition in the memoir. He wrote: “The whole family gathered to open gifts on Christmas Eve, as always, a German tradition that survived the anglicising of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. We were at Sandringham<\/a> in a big room with a long table covered with white cloth and white name cards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBy custom, at the start of the night, each of us located our place, stood before our mound of presents.<\/p>\n \u201cThen suddenly, everyone began opening at the same time. A free-for-all, with scores of family members talking at once and pulling at bows and tearing at wrapping paper.”<\/p>\n The US-based prince makes multiple references to Christmas traditions in his memoir, including his recollection of Christmas in 2020 before disaster struck his Montecito home.<\/p>\n He wrote: \u201cIt was Christmas Eve. We FaceTimed with several friends, including a few in Britain. We watched Archie running around the tree. And we opened presents. Keeping to the Windsor family tradition.<\/p>\n \u201cOne present was a little Christmas ornament of\u2026the Queen! I roared. What the-? Meg had spotted it in a local store and thought I might like it. I held it to the light. It was Granny\u2019s face to a T.<\/p>\n \u201cI hung it on an eye-level branch. It made me happy to see her there. It made Meg and me smile. But then Archie, playing around the tree, jostled the stand, shook the tree, and Granny fell. Pieces lay all over the floor. I grabbed a dustpan and swept up the pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n