In the royal court of Queen Elizabeth II, funny Christmas gifts were in style, as shown in the series The Crown, which amused and humanized the English royal family. The first royal Christmas with her in-laws, in 2017, Meghan Markle He already signed up for the palace mess and gave his brother-in-law, the Prince Guillermoa spoon with engraved words that accused him of being nothing less than a “cereal killer”.
The Queen Isabelwho died last September, went against royal etiquette by inviting Meghan to join the family for Christmas before the couple tied the knot, and the actress took the opportunity to join the royal tradition of novelty gifts.
The detail has now been known, and is collected in palace reports and in the biography on the Prince Harry and his wife, Finding Freedomwritten by Omid Scobie y Carolyn Durand, in which they recount how Meghan tossed around various ideas for the occasion that first Christmas as part of the family, and came up with some great ones, like a singing, corgi-loving toy hamster for the queen. However, the gift with which she succeeded was the “killer’s spoon” for the current Prince of Wales.
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In December 2017, Markle had just announced her engagement to Prince Harry and their marriage was five months away. The young American was anxious to impress William, worried about what to buy the future king for Christmas.
According to the biography, on that occasion Guillermo was pleasantly impressed by Markle’s small gift, and the interpreter left a good impression that Christmas, the first she spent with the royal family, fitting perfectly into the family custom of exchanging “joke gifts.” cheap” for these endearing parties.
According to publish Mirror, Among the laugh-inducing gifts that have been made in the royal family and that have come to light are a singing bass fish for the queen, which was proudly displayed in Balmoral for many years; a “grow your own girlfriend” kit with which Kate Middleton ridiculed his brother-in-law Harry with “honey” in 2016, and the king charles she received a leather toilet seat cover courtesy of her sister’s wicked wit, the princess anne.
This year, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spent Christmas in the US, and totally absent from the festive celebrations of the royal family, from which they are still separated almost three years after “Megxit”. Despite having attended the long funeral of Harry’s grandmother, they have further deepened the family distance due to the scandal surrounding the Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghanwhere the couple is constantly victimized by the “treatment” received and openly criticizes their real relatives.
The English royal family, minus Harry and Meghan, have celebrated Christmas by attending a full carol service at Westminster Abbey, in honor of the late Queen Elizabeth II, hosted by the Princess of Wales.