The London Year

WINTER

Visitors from around the globe line the Thames Riverside for the London New Year’s Eve Fireworks (31 December 2019. www.london. gov.uk/events) which light up the sky behind The London Eye, a 135-metre observation wheel. Festivities continue at noon the next day as a New Year’s Day Parade (1 January 2020. www.lnydp.com winds its way through the capital from Piccadilly, down Lower Regent’s Street and through to Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.

If heads are still sore from the revelry, visit the Chapel Royal for the Epiphany (6 January 2020. www.royal.uk/chapelroyal). Set inside the St James’s Palace chapel in which Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married 180 years ago, this ancient ceremony is a chance for the Queen and her subjects to give thanks as gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh are presented on Her Majesty’s behalf during a Holy Communion service.

For a lighter take on a traditional service, visit the