{"id":2201006,"date":"2025-12-16T09:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2201006"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:20:27","slug":"its-time-for-this-royal-christmas-tradition-to-start-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/its-time-for-this-royal-christmas-tradition-to-start-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for this royal Christmas tradition to start again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s getting to that time of year when a royal Christmas
\ntradition I loved used to suddenly appear from nowhere. There was
\nsomething familiar and happy and relaxed about it that seemed to
\nunderline that the festive season was about to begin. And I really
\nthink it\u2019s time King Charles brought it back.<\/p>\n

In fact, reviving this very simple royal moment might do the
\nfamily the world of good in a year that has seen them hit the
\nheadlines for a variety of reasons and not all of them wanted. It
\nwas a real feel good moment but it also highlighted how one royal
\nreally understood the importance of how they were seen.<\/p>\n

The Christmas tradition I really miss might actually have passed
\nmany people by but it was simple, understated and just a sign that
\nthe holidays were here.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about trains. Not the royal train or a steam train
\nor anything grand or majestic, even. I\u2019m talking about the service
\nbetween London and King\u2019s Lynn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You see, for several years, Queen Elizabeth II used to arrive in
\nNorfolk for her
\nChristmas stay at Sandringham<\/a> on one of the ordinary trains
\nthat left the capital for King\u2019s Lynn, the nearest station to the
\nroyal estate where she loved to gather her family for the festive
\nseason.<\/p>\n

Every year, around the 20th December, someone would see her
\nstepping off the train, more often than not with a warm coat and
\nher ever familiar headscarf in place, and walk down the platform to
\nthe exit where a car, admittedly royal, was waiting for her.<\/p>\n

For a few moments every year, Queen Elizabeth II was just like
\nmillions of others, heading off somewhere for family celebrations
\nat Christmas. She\u2019d step down on to the platform to continue her
\njourney, at the same time as others were disembarking the train to
\ndo exactly the same thing.<\/p>\n

The King has chosen to arrive at Sandringham for Christmas in
\nhis own way which means no view of a Monarch on the platform,
\nmaking for the little gate in the stone wall that leads to the car
\npark. It was a moment that brought the Royal
\nFamily<\/a> into the Christmas world of everyone else. Wouldn\u2019t it
\nbe great to see that happen again?<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source royalcentral.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s getting to that time of year when a royal Christmas tradition I loved used to suddenly appear from nowhere. There was something familiar and happy and relaxed about it that seemed to underline that the festive season was about to begin. And I really think it\u2019s time King Charles brought it back. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2201007,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2201006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Its-time-for-this-royal-Christmas-tradition-to-start-again.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201006","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=2201006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201008,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201006\/revisions\/2201008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2201007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}