Christmas for royal children has been a staid formal affair since the Victorian era, but no longer under the loosening-up influence of Kate Middleton and her mother, Carole. Christmas for royal children didn’t used to be much fun. As the rest of the nation’s youth were overdosing on sugar, tearing open gifts, and trashing the house with impunity, royal kids, like Prince William and Prince Harry in the 1990s, still had to conform to an ancient idea of a perfect Christmas: starched clothes, church and, worst of all, no presents.“There are, of course, some old-fashioned courtiers in the palace who resent Kate and William’s remorseless modernizing and democratizing of royal custom.” They were...
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