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How the Royal Family spend Boxing Day - from traditional sport to hearty breakfast


After two days of Christmas feasting, the Royal Family connect with their historic roots on Boxing Day and partake in an activity which has prompted criticism over the years

In the early 20th Century, under Edward VII and George V, Sandringham even had its own time zone, with clocks set half an hour ahead of GMT to provide extra daylight for the shoot. The Princess of Wales has been pictured on a hunt before with her husband (Image: Alpha-Stephen Daniels)According to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, Diana even told the brothers, “Remember, there’s always someone in a high-rise flat who doesn’t want to see you shoot Bambi.” In 2022, the King was jubilant after his horse, Steal A March, won a Boxing Day race at Wincanton in Somerset, marking his first horseracing triumph since he ascended the throne upon his mother’s death in September of that year.

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