The touching reason the Queen keeps her Christmas tree up until February Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity The touching reason the Queen keeps her Christmas tree up until February By You Magazine - December 21, 2021 The end of the festive period is rarely a welcome time. For most of us, it means saying goodbye to endless feasting, spending valued quality time with loved ones and returning to work – not to mention facing the dreaded month of January head on and possibly even booze-free. However, one of the saddest moments of all has got to be clearing your home of all the festive decorations and ultimately taking your beloved Christmas tree down. Getty Images If you’re the superstitious type, then this process probably happens sooner rather than later, as it is believed that keeping your tree up for too long after Christmas brings bad luck – but it turns out the Queen doesn’t share this notion. In fact, she reportedly keeps her tree up right the way through until February and it’s for a very touching reason. While most of us are fairly quick to add our tree to the recycling pile in the local park, it was revealed by Fabulous that Queen has made a tradition of keeping her Christmas tree and decorations up until 6 February in tribute to her late father, as it is the anniversary of his death. King George VI passed away on that date in 1952 at Sandringham, where the royals usually celebrate Christmas. Each year (pre-pandemic), the Queen reportedly remains in the Norfolk estate after Christmas to mark her father’s anniversary in private before returning home to Windsor Castle. Getty Images But amidst the formal royal conventions they must follow, unconventional traditions are actually surprisingly common among the Windsors throughout December. The family also has a well-known Christmas Eve gifting tradition which they all participated in every year, where they exchanged presents using the mantra of ‘the jokier the better’. ‘Diana found to her horror that the answer was not the expensive gifts she bought for her first royal Christmas as the Princess of Wales,’ revealed Kate Mansey in YOU’s in-depth exploration of Christmas at Sandringham. ‘Imagine the scene when she gave Princess Anne a cashmere sweater and found in return that she had been gifted a novelty loo-roll holder. Diana soon learned the “cheap and cheerful” rule, however, and one year gave Sarah, Duchess of York, a leopard-print bathmat.’ RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved