As Princess Diana herself put it, the royal family’s traditional Christmas celebrations at Sandringham were “highly fraught,” once calling the experience “terrifying and so disappointing.”
The late Princess of Wales relayed these sentiments to biographer Andrew Morton, and Diana hated Christmases at Sandringham so much that she even ducked out early on occasion.
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It’s no secret that Princess Diana wasn’t a fan of celebrating Christmas with her royal in-laws. Her relationship with the Royal Family—especially during the festive season—was often strained, and as her former butler Paul Burrell recently told Marie Claire, she found Christmas at Sandringham to be “like a pressure cooker.”
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