The royal family’s traditional Christmas Day walkabout is likely to be cancelled.
Queen Elizabeth and her relatives usually meet and greet members of the public on the footpath between their Sandringham Estate and St Mary Magdalene Church, where they attend a morning service on December 25, but staff have admitted they “fully expect” access to be closed off to well-wishers because of concerns over the rising coronavirus cases in the UK.
Buckingham Palace have insisted the queen’s plans for Christmas are still under discussion.
And although the 95-year-old monarch is expected to travel from Windsor Castle, where she has spent much of the pandemic, to her Norfolk estate via helicopter this week, insiders admitted her plans are “still in the balance” and it is possible she may host her family for Christmas at Windsor instead.
