Princess Diana told biographer Andrew Morton that she ‘hated’ Christmas at Sandringham with the royal family — and detailed how the disdain for spending the traditional Christmas at the Norfolk estate began as soon as 1981,

Since stepping down from their royal duties in 2020, Harry and Meghan have routinely been cut from royal events. The couple did not receive an invite to Trooping the Color, an annual celebration of the reigning monarch’s birthday, for the second time in a row this year, per Harper’s Bazaar.

As relations remained strained between Prince Harry and his father, King Charles, and brother Prince William, he and Meghan Markle were not invited to Christmas at Sandringham, where the royal family typically spends the holiday.