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Queen Elizabeth II (94) and Prince Philip (99) spend Christmas this year at Windsor Castle for once. And it's already festive there. The residence was decorated with numerous lights, festive garlands and Christmas trees. Part of the site is also open to visitors, but the Queen's private apartments are not open to visitors.

© imago images / i Images Queen Elizabeth II at one of her Christmas speeches

The "Royal Collection Trust" shows a video on its website, in which the Christmas castle in Windsor can be seen. In addition to baubles, small crowns hang on the Christmas tree in St. George's Hall as jewelry. On Instagram you can also see how an imposing tree is felled and brought to Windsor Castle, where it shines, adorned with hundreds of pendants and lights.

In Sudan, Ethiopian refugees try to rebuild life in their camp

© ASHRAF SHAZLY An Ethiopian refugee sells tea, in a transit camp in Sudan, November 26, 2020 Samarwat Tkhali, 10, has been walking around for a week the streets of "Village 8" in Sudan, where thousands of Ethiopians have taken refuge fleeing the war in Tigray. To survive, she sells the chocolate cakes bought by her father. In this miserable village, where some 15,000 Ethiopian refugees are crowded near the border, she approaches the people by asking them timidly: "Do you want to taste one?".

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend a "quiet" Christmas at Windsor Castle, rather than at their Sandringham estate, as they traditionally do with their wider family. Typically on 25 December, the royals attend a festive service at St. Mary Magdalene church in Sandringham, where

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will spend Christmas at Windsor Castle and not Sandringham as is their usual tradition, Buckingham Palace The announcement follows earlier speculation about where the Queen and the duke would spend the festive period, in light of Christmas coronavirus

Christmas under corona conditions

Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will be spending Christmas at Windsor Castle instead of their Sandringham country estate in Norfolk for the first time in decades due to the coronavirus pandemic. And that without her family, as a spokeswoman for Buckingham Palace announced according to British media reports: "After considering all the appropriate recommendations, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have decided that they will spend Christmas this year in Windsor in peace." There the royal couple lives in isolation to protect themselves from the virus. The Queen has only attended a few public appointments since the outbreak of the pandemic.

The royal family spent many Christmases at Windsor Castle when the Queen's children - Prince Charles, 72, Princess Anne (70), Prince Andrew (60) and Prince Edward (56) - were young. The Royal Family has traditionally celebrated Christmas and New Years in Sandringham since the 1980s.