Now that With Love, Meghan has apparently entered the holiday canon, Tatler asks a dangerous question: across nearly a thousand years of royal Christmases, who was the greatest host of them all?
We go back to Christmas Day 1066 and William the Conqueror, then trace the monarchy’s festive evolution through medieval excess, bizarre gifts, and court spectacle. Tatler’s verdict narrows to two very different champions: James the First, the patron saint of riotous Jacobean revelry, and Queen Victoria, whose family-centred traditions with Prince Albert helped shape the Christmas Britain still recognises today.
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