Yes, royal Christmases at Sandringham are legendary - featuring joke gift exchanges on Christmas Eve, a family-wide ban on Monopoly and of course a sitdown feast, with guests reportedly weighed in a time-old tradition to ensure that they have eaten enough.

King Charles and his family strolled to St Mary Magdalene, a 16th-century church on the Sandringham estate, part of a royal family tradition that's been going for decades.