A History of Royal Christmas Celebrations

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

London, Palace, Tower, Historic, Conservation, Royal, Lecture, Learning, Kensington, Hampton, Kew, Banqueting, History, Court, Of, House, Palaces

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Dive into the history of Royal Christmas celebrations in our palaces with this bonus seasonal episode. Chief mischief-maker Curator Charles Farris is joined by fellow Curator Lee Prosser, and Historic Kitchens Manager Richard Fitch, to kick off the season of revelry with some Christmas tomfoolery.

We'll be back next week to continue The Six Tudor Queens series.

For the Victorian Christmas pudding recipe go to:

www.hrp.org.uk/blog/a-christmas-pudding-recipe-with-a-victorian-twist/

And to find out what’s on in our Palaces this Christmas go to:

www.hrp.org.uk/whats-on-all-the-palaces

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Historic Royal Pallises podcast, the podcast that explores the history and stories of our six palaces.
0:10.4	My name is Charles Farris and I'm a curator at the Tower of London.
0:14.5	For any of you listeners who are worrying about this not being an episode of the six Tudor queens,
0:19.2	do not fear. Tracy Borman will be back next week with episode five.
0:24.0	But we wanted to bring a bonus seasonal episode.
0:27.9	So, to kick off the revelry of Christmas, we'll be reaching for our Tudor Mint's pies,
0:32.9	along with a cup of mild cider to delve into the history of Christmas celebrations in our palaces.
0:38.7	We'll be asking important questions like, what on earth is brawn and what did Elizabeth
0:43.9	the first get for Christmas?
0:45.8	Joining me today are two of my wonderful colleagues from Historic Royal Palaces.
0:50.4	Firstly, we have a man who knows a lot about historic Christmas recipes.
0:55.5	It's Richard Fitch.
0:59.3	Richard is the historic kitchens manager at Hampton Court Palace,
1:02.5	so he really knows what the palace are like at Christmas time.
1:04.7	Hello, Richard. How are you today?
1:07.3	Hi, Charles. I'm, yeah, good, busy.
1:09.5	I can imagine you really are.
1:15.6	And a man who can't wait to talk about Christmas tomfoolery, it's Lee Prosser. Lee is a building's curator at Kensington and Q with a special interest in floors, ceilings,
1:21.1	stairs and protection marks.
1:23.1	Thanks for being here again today, Lee.
1:25.1	How are you?
1:26.1	Hello Charlie. Happy Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to again today, Lee. How are you? Hello, Charlie. Happy Christmas to you.
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