Fresh off their Royal Train tour of the UK, the Cambridges have turned their attention to Christmas prep – including sending out their annual Christmas cards. This year’s festive dispatch depicts the Duke and Duchess, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis at home within their Anmer Hall estate in Norfolk, with the family perched together on hay bales beside a stack of logs, all wearing understated Christmas jumpers in different earth tones. (Victoria Beckham would approve.)
Perhaps the chicest sweater of the bunch? Charlotte’s intarsia moss-green knit by Ralph Lauren, featuring mismatched buttons and a storybook house on the front. Notably, the five-year-old is also wearing a miniature version of Kate’s beloved Penelope Chilvers boots, the Mini Midcalf Tassel, retailing at £259 and available to pre-order via the brand’s website now.
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Queen Victoria first began distributing Christmas cards featuring a portrait of the royal family in 1843, the same year that Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol helped inspire the widespread adoption of many of Britain’s best-loved Christmas traditions. The Queen continues to send out nearly 1,000 cards to friends and staff each year – a ritual the Wales family and later the Cambridges adopted after their respective marriages.
While the royals would usually be getting ready to join the Queen at Sandringham for the holidays, this year William and Kate are expected to celebrate alone with their children in Norfolk in light of Her Majesty’s plans to remain at Windsor Castle for the foreseeable. Here’s hoping for a further candid surprise portrait of the Cambridges together, like the one shared by the Duchess of Cambridge on Christmas Day in 2019.
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