In photos: The church and the village that hosts the royals during the holidays.
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In a departure from tradition, Prince Harry's faincée Meghan Markle will attend the British Royal family's Christmas celebrations this year.
The invitation to Markle is very unusual given that even Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, didn't attend the celebration when she was engaged to Prince William.
'It's quite set and quite formal,' royal historian Kate Williams told the BBC. 'It's looked pretty much the same since the Queen's youth in the '50s.'
The family will attend Christmas service at the 16th Century St Mary Magdalene Church, which is very close to the Sandringham Estate, Queen Elizabeth's 8,000-hectare private home in Norfolk, where the family celebrations take place.
Both the church and the estate are open to the public for a part of the year. But that's not all that Norfolk has to offer.
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The house set in 24 hectares of gardens, which along with the house and the museum is open from end of March to October every year.
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Sandringham village is the birth place of Princess Diana.
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Members of the Norfolk congregation and other subjects turn up to watch the royals.
The church has also hosted many royal christenings, including that of Princess Diana in 1961 and her granddaughter Princess Charlotte (Prince Williams and Kate Middleton's daughter) in 2015.
Photographs: Joe Giddens/Reuters.
The nearby village of Dersingham took the ninth place in The Sunday Times' list of the 20 best villages in Britain this year.
Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters.
When Queen Elizabeth travels to Norfolk by train, she alights at the King's Lynn station.
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