The late Princess of Wales used to “dread these royal family Christmases,” royal biography Ingrid Seward said recently

Mr Morton, who wrote the bestseller Diana: Her True Story, said that the late princess spent her first Christmas at Sandringham in 1981 and brought the family “thoughtful and expensive gifts,” Vanity Fair reports.

Not everyone loves the idea of a Christmas stacked to the brim with tradition after tradition, and for Princess Diana, the thought of enjoying the holidays with her fellow royals at times made her feel so uptight that she would often ditch the festivities as soon as she possibly could.

Although the late Diana, Princess of Wales reportedly disliked her husband's then-mistress Queen Camilla, both of King Charles III's wives apparently liked to ditch Sandringham House early after Christmas lunch.