Stars at christmas

Our favourite celebrities share their Christmas Day traditions

Every year since 1988, the royals have decamped to Sandringham in Norfolk to celebrate the festive period. Complete with its very own ballroom, there’s enough space for all the family and staff. The c

Wander in to the shops and there’s no escaping it: Christmas is coming. Seemingly getting earlier every year, the pressure to deliver the perfect Christmas is immense. From TV ads showing sumptuous fo

DO YOU TAKE ON THE LION’S SHARE OF FESTIVE TASKS? I am very lucky – my husband is a thoroughly modern man. He cooks, takes out the bins and dotes on our kids. He even buys a lot of the presents. But I

Joanna Lumley reflects on festive love, treasured childhood memories, a whirlwind 2025 and why George Clooney is ’an utter sweetheart’

Whether you call it Christmas, Winterval or just ‘the holidays’, the period between late December and early January is cocoon time: a cessation of work and routine activities. It begins with tradition