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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Jenny Proudfoot

A palace chef has revealed how the royal family celebrates the New Year

The Wales family arrives at St Mary Magdalene Church for the Christmas Day service.

Royal holidays are kept fairly private, and aside from the traditional walk to St. Mary Magdalene Church for the Christmas Day service, the Mountbatten-Windsors keep their festive celebrations behind Palace doors.

From what we do know, it involves some unique royal festive traditions, from entering the dining room in order of title and a family-wide ban on Monopoly, to the annual Christmas weigh-in where guests are weighed before and after their Christmas lunch on antique scales to ensure that they have been fed enough on turkey, shrimp and lobster.

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