Let it Glow
On Christmas Eve 1832, a young Queen Victoria pulled out her diary in a flurry of excitement. “After dinner… we then went into the drawing room,” wrote the 13-year-old princess. “There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.”
The decorated trees were a German tradition, brought over by her mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. But the custom soon caught on in other British homes, popularised by Queen
