{"id":48975,"date":"2020-12-21T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T13:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/?p=48975"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:43:02","slug":"why-the-queen-leaves-her-christmas-ornaments-up-until-february-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/why-the-queen-leaves-her-christmas-ornaments-up-until-february-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Queen Leaves Her Christmas Ornaments Up Until February Every Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christmas is a wonderful time for people across the globe. Even though people say that Christmas isn\u2019t about gifts or decorations, deep down, it really is. And everyone gets in on the festivities, even the Queen of England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Queen Elizabeth II takes her Christmas seriously. Although it\u2019s bad luck to leave your ornaments up in January, she takes it one step further and takes them down on February 6 every year. And she\u2019s been doing this every year since she took over after her father, King George VI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas for Her Kingdom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Although Queen Elizabeth II is known for many ones, she\u2019s infamously known for her undying love of Christmas every year. As the Queen of the UK, she can hire the best designers in the world to prepare the most stunning Christmas tree every year, but she prefers adorning her trees with her own two hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every year, she invites her closest relatives to her home in Windsor to take part in the festivities. As the adults mingle, she gives the serious task of decorating the tree to the youngest members of the Royal Family. She claims that allowing them to decorate the tree means they\u2019ll be too preoccupied wreaking havoc. Smart thinking, Queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Christmas \u2018til February 6th<\/sup><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most of us take down our ornaments as soon as Christmas celebrations are over out of fear of neighborly judgment. However, as the Queen, who\u2019s going to stop her from doing what she does? Nobody, that\u2019s who!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s a reason why the Queen leaves her ornaments up until the 6th<\/sup> of February every year. Her father, King George VI, passed away on February 6, 1952, at just 56 years old from lung cancer. She loved her father as much as any daughter could, and being the next person in charge meant she had to take up his Royal Duties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the transition from being an \u201cordinary\u201d Royal Member to the Queen was rough, she learned a lot from her father and mother, Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Same Traditions Every Year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Apart from decorating her home and Christmas tree, she also has a set of rules she follows to the T. First, she invites her closest relatives to her home in Windsor to catch up and drink a lot<\/em>. On Christmas morning, she and her family go to church for the morning mass. After that, she returns home for a quick brunch, and then she\u2019s off to address the public with the annual Queen\u2019s Speech on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas is a wonderful time for people across the globe. Even though people say that Christmas isn\u2019t about gifts or decorations, deep down, it really is. And everyone gets in on the festivities, even the Queen of England. In fact, Queen Elizabeth II takes her Christmas seriously. Although it\u2019s bad luck to leave your ornaments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58585,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48975\/revisions\/58585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networthus.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}