the Annual Christmas lunch hosted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace

No official photos are ever released from this private event.  Queen Elizabeth II hosts an annual Christmas lunch at Buckingham Palace,  The guest list includes close family and the cousins and their families.

The guests included the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children,  Princess Anne and her husband, Timothy Laurence,  Zara & Mike Tindall and their elder daughter, Mia, the Duke of York, Princess Beatrice of York (sans Fiance), Princess Eugenie and her husband, Jack Brooksbank,  the Earl and Countess of Wessex and their daughter, Lady Louise and son, Viscount Severn, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Earl and Countess of Ulster and their children, Lord Culloden and Lady Cosima Windsor,  Lady Rose Gilman and her daughter, Lyla, the Duke of Kent with his two granddaughters, Lady Marina-Charlotte and Lady Amelia Windsor,  the Earl and Countess of St. Andrews, the Earl and Countess of Snowdon and their daughter, Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Lady Helen and Tim Taylor & their daughter Estella, Lady Gabriela Kingston and her husband Tom, Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, Lord and Lady Frederick Windsor and their daughter, Maud. Lady Sarah and Daniel Chatto,  Flora Ogilvy and her fiance, Tim Vesterburg, 



The Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent their regrets, as they are on a six week break and will return to royal duties after the Christmas holidays. 

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