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This Very Odd Royal Family Christmas Tradition Will Leave You Confused

This is the last thing we'd want to be doing Christmas day

Every family has a Christmas tradition that they do every year, but surprisingly it seems that holiday quirk gets extended to the Royal family and in the weirdest of ways.

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Royal expert and editor of Majesty, Ingrid Seward, recently spoke to Grazia magazine to reveal how the Royal family do Christmas each year, and one extremely odd habit caught everybodyโ€™s attention.

Are you ready for it?

Every member of the royal family is weighed before and after Christmas dinner.

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Although this seems like the very last thing weโ€™d want to be doing after a day of festive feasting, the tradition apparently dates back to the early 1900โ€™s when King Edward VII led the monarchy.

Because past kings and queens were quite the gluttons, โ€˜the weighingโ€™ wasnโ€™t some form of royal fat-shaming, but rather to ensure that everyone was thoroughly well fed.

As for some other strange royal traditions? It has been widely reported that the Royals open all their gifts on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas day, and because theyโ€™re all loaded they only exchange humorous gifts.

According to the Daily Star, Meghan gave the queen a singing hamster toy last yearโ€ฆitโ€™ll be hard to top that!  

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