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A blog by Elena Maria Vidal.
Christmas
trees became popular in Britain after the German husband and Consort of
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, introduced them in 1841. And where the
Royal Family led, fashionable society was sure to follow. Soon Christmas
trees became an essential part of the British Christmas. Interestingly
however, Prince Albert was in fact completing a circle in the real
story of the Christmas Tree. For it was an Englishman who once upon a
time gave the German people the gift of the Christmas Tree. (Read more.)
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