The Royal Family said presents are opened on Christmas Eve because it followed the German practice introduced by Queen Victoria and Prince ... on the 20-ft Christmas tree in the White Drawing ...

you have the British royal family to thank. The Christmas tree, a popular German tradition by the early 1800s, was popularized in the United Kingdom in the 1840s after Queen Victoria‘s German ...

Many attribute the change to Queen Victoria, and it was her ... News published a drawing of the royal family celebrating around a decorated Christmas tree, a tradition that was reminiscent of ...