The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left London with their three children before the Tier 4 restrictions were announced. Prince William and wife Kate took Prince George, seven, Princess Charlotte, five and Prince Louis, two to their country home Anmer Hall in Norfolk after the children broke up from school last week.
They decided to spend Christmas alone as a family before the latest draconian measures were announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson this afternoon.
The Queen announced to her family at the end of the November lockdown that she would be cancel her usual royal Christmas celebration at Sandringham, due to the previous restrictions on having no more than three households together.
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