From Buckingham Palace to Sandringham, then across Europe to the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Spain and Monaco.
This is the royal Christmas calendar, mapped out like a quick tour: the public-facing set pieces (carols, speeches, concerts) and the quieter family routines behind the scenes.
We start in the UK with the Palace lunch and the Waleses’ Westminster Abbey carol service, before heading to Sandringham for the walk to church and the King’s broadcast. Then it’s over the North Sea for Sinterklaas in the Netherlands, up to Sweden’s festive family traditions, across Belgium and Denmark’s contrasting approaches, back to London via Norway’s Trafalgar Square tree, down to Spain’s Three Kings season, and finally Monaco’s palace gift-giving tradition.