reportedly busy with engagements leading up to their wedding day that May, and spent the holiday privately. Markle’s first holiday with the royal family was Christmas of 2017, when she and Harry were newly engaged. “I remember so vividly the first Christmas at Sandringham,” she said in the Netflix docuseries “Harry & Meghan.”“Calling my mom, and she’s like, ‘How’s it going?’ And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s amazing.
It’s just like a big family like I always wanted.’ And there was just this constant movement and energy and fun.”“The family loved having her there,” Harry told BBC Radio 4 at the time.
In 2019, when the couple was living at Frogmore Cottage, the Duchess of Sussex was far into her pregnancy with Prince Archie, so while Harry attended, Markle sat it out.
By 2020, the couple had stepped back from the royal family and absconded to California (plus, with the COVID-19 pandemic at its height, the family didn’t gather).
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