Princess Diana HATED Christmas At Sandringham, How Does Prince William Tolerate It?

British royal family news reveals that the late Diana, first wife of King Charles, wasn’t particularly fond of the holiday season. There are plenty of reasons to be disenchanted with Christmas and for Diana there was allegedly one terrible memory that clouded her judgment.

According to Vanity Fair, in 1967 six-year-old Lady Diana Spencer Christmastime waited out in the cold for “her mother, Frances, to come back home. It is a present she will never receive.”

Royal Family News – Lady Diana And Christmas

Author Simone Simmons wrote in her book Diana: The Last Word: “Christmas was always the worst of times for Diana. The season reminded her of her mother’s departure.” At the time her mother was separated from her husband John, and they later divorced.

Diana primarily lived with their father and spent some weekends with her mother. Ironically, “Diana’s father often packed her … off to Sandringham, where they spent the holiday season.”

Later, Diana recalled “I hated going over there. The atmosphere was always very strange when we went there, and I used to kick and fight anyone who tried to make us go over there, and Daddy was most insistent because it was rude.”

Royal Family News – Lady Diana Did Not Like Christmas

Pregnant Diana spent her first Christmas as a member of the royal clan in 1981. Christmas that year was at Windsor Castle, but when the clan spent New Year’s at Sandringham “Diana’s mood darkened.

In January, a distraught Diana hurled herself down a staircase, to the horror of the royal family. From then on, holidays at Sandringham were anything but jolly for the then Princess of Wales.”

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Royal Family News – Unhappy Sandringham

Diana’s hairdresser Richard Dalton stated that Diana told him of her hatred of a Sandringham Christmas: “She told me it was freezing cold and dinner had to be over by three o’clock: ‘It’s three and time to watch me on TV,’ she’d say, imitating you-know-who. The royal family had to watch the Queen’s Christmas message on television. Diana said it was a command performance.”

By the late 1980s, Diana made it clear to the royals and the media “that she hated Christmas with the Windsors.

In 1988, The Sunday People reported that she often escaped to London during the six-week holiday at Sandringham, instructing her staff at Kensington to keep everything ready for her.”

Given Diana’s displeasure with a Sandringham Christmas, one wonders how her sons, William and Harry, feel about the tradition.

If William is unhappy there, he would never let on, instead opting for the royal motto ‘never complain, never explain.’ As for Harry, he no longer has to worry about being invited.

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