Queen Victoria, who reigned from 1837 ... Albert took a keen interest in arranging the family’s festivities. He decorated the tree with candles, fruits, sweets and small gifts, setting the ...

you have the British royal family to thank. The Christmas tree, a popular German tradition by the early 1800s, was popularized in the United Kingdom in the 1840s after Queen Victoria‘s German ...

Many attribute the change to Queen Victoria ... London News published a drawing of the royal family celebrating around a decorated Christmas tree, a tradition that was reminiscent of Prince ...

Victoria was eighteen when she became Queen. At the time, the Royal Family was unpopular. But people liked this new Queen! Three years later she married Prince Albert. Because she was the Queen ...