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.

"My mum said ‘I’d love you to come, I haven’t had Christmas with you for a long time,'" he told the outlet. "It has been a hell of a two years for them. The older you get, the more conscious you become of mortality,