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Advent Calendar December 7th

Christmas tree up this weekend?

The Christmas tree we are familiar with is a German custom.
A number of historical sources say that Queen Charlotte, the mother of the Prince Regent and herself born in northern Germany, introduced Christmas trees to the Court, but the idea doesn’t appear to have caught on outside the Royal circle. They only became popular after the Illustrated London News published an engraving of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children around the family tree in 1848.

2 comments on “Advent Calendar December 7th”

  1. beth
    December 8, 2024
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    that is such a cool picture. and mine will not be up this year as I have adopted a young crazy cat )

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    • bridget whelan
      December 8, 2024
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      Cats and Christmas trees do not work well together…I had a beautiful Rag Doll who was deeply, passionately in love with tinsel and needed to surround himself with as much as he could get his paws on. That was. (He got his name because his coat was the same colour as a badly poured pint of Murphy’s.)

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