Real reason Princess Kate didn’t break royal rule despite Meghan Markle being happy to

The Princess of Wales once refused to break an old royal tradition that a few years later her now sister-in-law, Meghan Markle, was happy to.
Princess Kate has been crowned many a time the most popular member of the Royal Family in the UK as well as the US with royal fans anticipating her next appearance.

The future Queen has joined the rest of the royals at many major events, however, there was one particular event she refused to attend way before she married into the Firm in 2011.

Before that, there was a long-standing tradition according to which non-royals could not tag along with the rest of the Firm at major family events like the Christmas and Easter holidays.
Kate did not join the royals for Christmas until December 2011 – the Christmas after her wedding and ten years after she had started dating Prince William.

Meanwhile, Meghan Markle joined the Royal Family for their traditional Christmas Day service at the Sandringham estate back in 2017, a year before she got married to Prince Harry, with many questioning why the same thing didn’t happen with Kate.

But according to British historian Robert Lacey, the late Queen Elizabeth had in fact invited the Princess of Wales to a Christmas event way before her engagement to William, however, she turned it down.

In his biography Battle of the Brothers, Mr Lacey wrote that in 2006, the late monarch broke royal tradition and offered an invitation for the family’s traditional Christmas lunch to an “unregistered partner” of a member of the Firm.

But 24-year-old Kate allegedly declined Elizabeth’s offer
The book stated that the princess “would go to Sandringham on Christmas Day only when she was engaged”.
Mr Lacey wrote:”By 2006, the couple had been dating seriously for the best part of five years.

Yet when William invited Kate to join him that year at Sandringham for the Royal Family’s traditional Christmas lunch, she refused.

“It was the first time the Queen had extended such an invitation to an unregistered ‘girlfriend’, but Kate had her own take on that break with tradition: she would go to Sandringham on Christmas Day only when she was engaged and had a ring to prove it.