Princess Diana “escaped before lunch” during the royal Christmas

Not everyone likes the idea of ​​a Christmas full of traditions, and Princess Diana at times felt so tense at the thought of enjoying the holiday with her fellow royals that she often gave up on the celebrations straight away.

The latest episode of The sun Royal Exclusive The show detailed how Diana would cope with the holiday, and royal experts Ingrid Seward and Arthur Edwards detailed how the late princess would emerge from the events.

“For many years our Queen Camilla would leave after lunch and spend time with her own family down in Wiltshire,” Edwards explained. Sometimes Diana’s escape came even sooner.

Seward added that Diana always tried to follow Camilla’s example. “Diana always left after lunch. When things were really not going well, she dreaded those royal family Christmases,” she said. “And she always did that – and sometimes she would even escape from lunch and just go to church.”

Edwards explained that Diana’s departures are always final. “Not always, but a few times I remember, yes, I remember one time she passed me on the highway and came back,” he added.

The experts’ recollections are confirmed as several people have reported Diana’s disdain for Christmas with the Windsors. She confided in her hairdresser, Richard Dalton, that she didn’t enjoy the holiday.

“The princess just hated going to Sandringham for Christmas,” Dalton told Kitty Kelley for her book The Royals. “She told me it was freezing cold and dinner had to be over by 3 p.m. ‘It’s 3 o’clock and time to see me on TV,’ she said, imitating You-Know-Who. The royal family had to watch.” In the Queen’s televised Christmas message, Diana said it was an impressive achievement.

The drama began with Diana’s first Christmas at Sandringham in 1981, with royal biographer Andrew Morton – who wrote Diana: Her true story– and revealed that her dislike of the royal Christmas was due to joke gifts, it is said Vanity Fair.

Diana was “mortified” when she found out on Christmas Day that the royals were only giving each other joke gifts and she received a toilet roll holder in return after giving her sister-in-law Princess Anne a cashmere sweater.

“It was very tense,” Princess Diana told Morton. “I know I gave, but I don’t remember ever being a receiver. Isn’t that terrible? I give all the gifts and Charles signs the cards. (It was) terrifying and so disappointing. “No boisterous behavior, a lot of tension, goofy behavior, silly jokes that outsiders would find strange but insiders would understand,” she said, adding that she was “certainly” an outsider.