{"id":2186136,"date":"2025-12-04T00:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186136"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:49:01","slug":"meghan-markle-still-follows-one-royal-loved-christmas-tradition-despite-tension-with-prince-harrys-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meghan-markle-still-follows-one-royal-loved-christmas-tradition-despite-tension-with-prince-harrys-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle still follows one royal-loved Christmas tradition despite tension with Prince Harry&#8217;s family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Meghan Markle still follows one royal-loved Christmas tradition despite <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/11\/29\/royal-family\/harry-and-meghans-biggest-blunders-of-2025-as-they-are-stuck-between-royal-and-celebrity-status\/\">tension with her husband Prince Harry\u2019s family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Duchess of Sussex \u2014 who <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/01\/08\/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-quit-the-royal-family\/\">stepped down from her royal duties<\/a> and moved to the United States with her family in 2020 \u2014 revealed in the Netflix special\u00a0\u201cWith Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration\u201d\u00a0that she still loves incorporating Christmas crackers into her holiday plans.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/CultureUK\/Christmas-Crackers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Historic UK<\/a>, a Christmas cracker is a cardboard paper tube wrapped in brightly colored paper and twisted at both ends. Inside are two strips of chemically impregnated paper that react with friction, so when two people pull the cracker apart, it makes a loud sound.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the cracker is typically a paper crown, a slip of paper containing a joke or riddle and some kind of small gift or sweet treat.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Meghan Markle still follows one royal-loved Christmas tradition despite tension with Prince Harry\u2019s family. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>The Duchess of Sussex revealed in the Netflix special\u00a0\u201cWith Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration\u201d\u00a0that she still loves incorporating Christmas crackers into her holiday plans. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In one scene during the special, Markle and restaurateur Will Guidara sat down in the craft room of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/08\/12\/inside-prince-harry-and-meghan-markles-new-california-estate\/\">her and Harry\u2019s Montecito, Calif., home<\/a> to make their own Christmas crackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiving in the UK, it\u2019s just such a big part of [the culture over there],\u201d the former actress, 44, told Guidara. \u201cTypically, people cross their arms and do it. They sit around the table, and they all pull at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s fond of the tradition because it feels \u201creally connected and sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\">For her homemade crackers, Markle added a personal touch for each member of her family.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>In one scene during the special, Markle and restaurateur Will Guidara sat down in the craft room of her and Harry\u2019s Montecito, Calif., home to make their own Christmas crackers. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cLiving in the UK, it\u2019s just such a big part of [the culture over there],\u201d the former actress told Guidara. \u201cTypically, people cross their arms and do it. They sit around the table, and they all pull at the same time.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\">Harry \u2014 who made a brief cameo at the end of the episode and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/12\/03\/entertainment\/prince-harry-roasts-meghan-markles-cooking-with-playful-dig-in-with-love-meghan-holiday-celebration\/\">teased his wife for her cooking skills<\/a> \u2014 will get \u201ca little love letter, a chocolate and little hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\">Their 6-year-old son, Prince Archie, will receive a red cracker that centers on his love of hamburgers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\">Their daughter, Princess Lilibet \u201cLili,\u201d 4, will open hers to find \u201ca lavender roller ball\u201d because she \u201creally likes trying to be a grown-up lady at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\">Markle and Guidara then pulled apart a test cracker, which he \u201cwon\u201d by pulling the larger half of the tube that included the goodies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She\u2019s fond of the tradition because it feels \u201creally connected and sweet.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Markle and Harry stepped down from their royal duties and moved their family to the United States in 2020. <span class=\"credit\">Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The royal family has long celebrated the holidays with Christmas crackers, which Markle got to experience during her two Christmases with her in-laws.<\/p>\n<p>However, given that she and Harry, 41, felt unprotected by the institution when facing intense media coverage and public scrutiny, they made the decision to leave the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMegxit\u201d left a bad taste in the royal family\u2019s mouths, as did the couple\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/03\/08\/prince-harry-racism-large-part-in-fleeing-uk-with-meghan-markle\/\">infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2021<\/a> followed by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2023\/01\/06\/prince-william-seething-and-devasted-by-harrys-bombshell-allegations\/\">Harry\u2019s 2023 tell-all book, \u201cSpare.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All episodes of \u201cWith Love, Meghan\u201d are available to stream on Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Markle still follows one royal-loved Christmas tradition despite tension with her husband Prince Harry\u2019s family. The Duchess of Sussex \u2014 who stepped down from her royal duties and moved to the United States with her family in 2020 \u2014 revealed in the Netflix special\u00a0\u201cWith Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration\u201d\u00a0that she still loves incorporating Christmas crackers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2186137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[70626,24003,22116,333992,23067,23191,22730,22769,21913],"class_list":["post-2186136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-news","tag-christmas","tag-family-feuds","tag-meghan-markle","tag-netflix","tag-prince-harry","tag-royal-family","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meghan-Markle-still-follows-one-royal-loved-Christmas-tradition-despite-tension.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186138,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186136\/revisions\/2186138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}