Most people probably assume that members of the Royal Family spend Christmas in decadent surroundings, sitting on plush furniture, and eating expensive meals. However, one royal expert has suggested that some aspects of the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where the royals traditionally spend the holiday season, are a little antiquated.

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King Charles III, Queen Camilla, and the rest of the British Royal Family attended the traditional service in Sandringham.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly spent Christmas at their California home, absent from royal celebrations at Sandringham.

Arthur and Samuel Chatto joined the rest of the royals in Sandringham on Christmas morning in 2023. Here, they can be seen walking behind Princess Beatrice, her husband Edo, and her mother, Sarah Ferguson.

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.”

Express Royal Reporter Pandora Forsyth broke down the Royal Family’s Sandringham Christmas walk, calling the festivities “particularly popular” for 2024.