The Royal Family's best Christmas moments in 21 pictures
- 1/21
On the way to Sandringham
A laughing Princess Anne sits with her mother, the Queen, and Prince Charles in a car taking them from Buckingham Palace on their way to Sandringham for the Christmas holidays in 1956. (PA)PA - 2/21
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Christmas at Windsor Castle with the Queen and Prince Philip putting finishing touches to Christmas tree in 1969. (PA/The Royal Family)Bettmann via Getty Images - 3/21
The Christmas Day Television Broadcast
The Queen, together with her grandson Peter Phillips, and his mother, Princess Anne, during the 1978 Christmas Day broadcast. (PA Images)PA Images via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 4/21
Royal Family Attending Christmas Service
Members of the Royal Family, including Princess Margaret, outside St George's Chapel when Christmas was held in Windsor in 1980. (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)Tim Graham via Getty Images - 5/21
Royal family at St George's Chapel, 1983
The Royal family pictured at St George's Chapel, Windsor, after the church service on 25 December 1983. Traditions moved to Sandringham in the 1990s. (Kent Gavin/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)Mirrorpix via Getty Images - 6/21
Princess Diana at church in Sandringham
The Princess of Wales, Princess Diana, at Sandringham on a very windy Christmas Day 1990. (Kent Gavin/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)Mirrorpix via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 7/21
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie meet Santa
The Duchess of York with her daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie (left), chatting with Santa Claus at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children party. (John Stillwell - PA Images)John Stillwell - PA Images via Getty Images - 8/21
Princes William and Harry with presents from well-wishers
Princes William (far right) and Harry, clutch gifts from wellwishers as they leave Sandringham Church with their father, Prince Charles, after attending morning service in 1997. (John Stillwell/PA)John Stillwell - PA Images via Getty Images - 9/21
William tries out a beard
Who can forget Prince William's beard as he attended the Christmas day service at St. Mary Magdalene Church in 2008. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)Samir Hussein via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 10/21
Kate's Christmas party
Kate trying out some drumming 'music therapy' at the Anna Freud Centre Family School Christmas Party in 2015. (Chris Jackson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)Chris Jackson via Getty Images - 11/21
Queen in red on a rainy Christmas Day
The Queen at a Christmas Day church service at Sandringham in 2015, not put off by the rain. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)Chris Jackson via Getty Images - 12/21
Cambridges have Christmas with the Middletons
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and Princess Charlotte had Christmas with Kate's family in 2015. Here at St Mark's Church in Englefield, Berkshire. (Andrew Matthews/PA Images)Andrew Matthews - PA Images via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 13/21
William passes on George's wishlist
In this adorable moment, William passed on Prince George's Christmas Wish List to Santa Claus as he visits Esplanade Park's Christmas market in Helsinki. (Dominic Lipinski/PA Images)Dominic Lipinski - PA Images via Getty Images - 14/21
Meghan's first royal Christmas
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attended her first Christmas lunch for members of the Royal Family hosted by the Queen in 2017. (Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)Max Mumby/Indigo via Getty Images - 15/21
The fab four
All eyes were on the fab four of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at Christmas Day Church service in 2017. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)Chris Jackson via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 16/21
Kate's snowballs at Christmas party
The Duchess of Cambridge throws a mock snowball as she takes part in a children's pretend snowball fight during a Christmas party to deliver a message of support to deployed personnel serving in Cyprus and their families over the festive period in 2018. (Richard Pohle - WPA Pool/Getty Images)WPA Pool via Getty Images - 17/21
The Sussexes and Cambridges at Christmas
The second outing of the fab four at Sandringham in 2018 would turn out to be the last. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)Samir Hussein via Getty Images - 18/21
The Duchess Of Cambridge picks a Christmas tree
Kate helped by children picks a Christmas tree during activities with families and children to mark her Family Action patronage in 2019. (Jonathan Brady - WPA Pool/Getty Images)WPA Pool via Getty Images Yahoo News is better in the app
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- 19/21
George and Charlotte's first Sandringham Christmas
In 2019, George and Charlotte attended church in Sandringham with their parents, the first time they had been part of the tradition. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press)Mark Cuthbert via Getty Images - 20/21
Queen's Christmas carol service
In an unusual Christmas event, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge socially distance from his grandmother outside Windsor Castle, in 2020. (Glyn Kirk - WPA Pool/Getty Images)WPA Pool via Getty Images - 21/21
Cambridges trip to the panto
In the nick of time before London entered Tier 4, the Duke and the Duchess of Cambridge took their children to the panto. (Aaron Chown/AFP)AARON CHOWN via Getty Images
After a tumultuous year, Christmas 2020 won’t be like any other for many people in Britain.
And for royal watchers, there will be no crowds outside the church at Sandringham, no new photos of Prince George and Princess Charlotte going to the service, and no pre-Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen’s annual Christmas broadcast will still go ahead, showing across various stations at 3pm on 25 December.
There will also likely be some special festive messages from the royals.
Yahoo UK takes a look back at some of the best Christmas moments from the Royal Family.