Gala Christmas Day in country for Queen Elizabeth II, family

SANDRINGHAM, England — Queen Elizabeth II and her close family spent a gala Christmas Day at her palatial countryside retreat, feasting on locally-reared turkey after attending a church service.

Her husband, 98-year-old Prince Philip, was able to take part one day after being released from a London hospital, although he did not go to church.

Other senior royals trooped to the morning service at St. Mary Magdalene Church near her Sandringham estate in eastern England.

It was a festive event as the queen was joined for the first time by Prince George, 6, and Princess Charlotte, 4, the two eldest children of Prince William and his wife, Kate. They left 1-year-old Prince Louis at home.

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