A Royal's Not Just For Christmas!

Never is a question loaded with so much potential for disaster as, ‘So, what you doing for Christmas?’ – especially when it’s a relative querying your plans for the big day.

Even Meghan and Harry screwed this one up. When the Queen requests you join her for turkey and charades at Sandringham, there's only one response: ‘Super, absolutely love to!’, not: ‘Er, we’d rather spend it in the LA sunshine/a soup kitchen/slumped in our onesies watching Netflix, thanks.’

But while the Sussexes’ decision to snub tradition made headlines, our decisions to blank loved ones can be just as painful. With families coming in ever more varied forms, keeping everyone happy is impossible.