The Royal Family doesn’t exchange luxurious presents on Christmas Day, but instead have a tradition of giving prank gifts. Before she married Prince William, Princess Kate gave then-single Prince Harry a grow-your-own-girlfriend toy, and Prince Charles once received a gilt toilet seat. Paul Burrell, former royal butler and close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales told The Express that Prince Harry once had a prank gift for the late Queen Elizabeth II that was nearly “a disaster.”
“The boys always chose jokey presents,” Burrell told The Express. “Harry once picked a whoopee cushion as Granny’s Christmas present, [Princess Diana, the late Princess of Wales] gently steered him away and suggested that Grandpa might appreciate that particular gift a little more than Granny would.”
