Zara Tindall’s husband has opened up on what happens during the royal family’s dinner
Prince Louis and the Princess of Wales during the Together At Christmas carol service (Image: PA)
Mike Tindall has shared the reason why the younger members of the Royal Family don’t join the other royals for Christmas dinner. While most families tend to dine together, even at large occasions and gatherings, the Royal Family do not usually do this, with a tradition in place for children and younger ones to eat separately.
Due to their busy schedules, big family meals don’t happen often with the royals, reports the Express. However, the family does manage to find some time to get together over the festive period.
The royals have a pre-Christmas lunch, which includes the wider family too. This tends to be hosted a week before Christmas Day at Buckingham Palace.
On Christmas Day itself, a number of royals spend the day together at Sandringham in Norfolk.
While the festive celebrations are kept under wraps, Mike Tindall has previously given an insight into what happens behind closed doors.
The former rugby player is married to Zara, who is the daughter of Princess Anne and the oldest niece of King Charles III. Mike previously revealed that young royals, including seven-year-old Prince Louis, don’t join older members of the family for the Christmas dinner.
The younger royals sit separately until they have the correct table manners(Image: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)
Instead, there is believed to be a little table in another room nearby where the children all eat the meal together.
Speaking on his own rugby podcast, ‘The Good, The Bad & The Rugby’, Mike shared the children eat their dinner in a separate room.
He said: “This is the family lunch; there were seven tables, so there must have been about 70 of us there.” He added: “The kiddies have their own little one in a different room.”
This is believed to be the case for young royals until they can eat at the dinner table with the correct manners.
Former royal chef Darren McGrady, who worked for the Queen and Diana, once told Harper’s Bazaar Royal: “The children always ate in the nursery until they were old enough to conduct themselves properly at the dining table.”
It is not known at what age royal children move from the children’s table to the normal dining tables with their adult relatives.
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