Have you ever wondered how the royal family celebrate at Christmas? We take a closer look inside their Sandringham festivities - and some of their unusual traditions

Members of the British royal family exchange gifts every Dec. 24 — not on Christmas morning as many families do. As Prince Harry put it in his 2023 memoir, Spare, doing so is “a German tradition that survived the anglicizing of the family surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.”

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At Sandringham, where King Charles celebrates Christmas with his family, one particular German tradition is always followed.