The tradition has been followed by King Charles, who hosted the family last year in Norfolk for the first time as monarch, following Queen Elizabeth’s death in September 2022.
While last year marked King Charles’s first Sandringham as King, it would have felt a sombre one, being the first Christmas the family has spent without the late Queen.
Despite becoming Queen last year, Camilla’s children were not invited to Christmas celebrations with their mother – and have never spent Christmas with the royals.
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Sarah Ferguson is also rumoured to be on the guestlist for Christmas at Sandringham, as she continues to share a close relationship with the Royal Family following her divorce from Prince Andrew in 1996, who she continues to live with at Royal Lodge.
Though it’s not yet confirmed whether she received an invite, it is likely that Fergie will want to spend time with her grandchildren this year, as her daughter Princess Eugenie welcomed her second son Ernest with husband Jack Brooksbank in May. He is an older brother to August, who’s three.
It meant Fergie became a grandmother for the fourth time, as her daughter Princess Beatrice has a step-son, Wolfie Mapelli Mozzi, seven, and daughter Sienna Mapelli Mozzi, two.
These new additions means there may have to be more space made for the royal Christmas lunch, with this years expected to be the biggest. Rather than the Sandringham dining room, the lunch is expected to take place in a bigger ballroom.
King Charles is also expected to leave Sandringham relatively quickly following Christmas, to spend time at his beloved Scottish residence, in another notable change to proceedings.
Queen Elizabeth would often stay in Sandringham till February to commemorate the death of her father King George VI
