{"id":10012,"date":"2025-12-22T23:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:34:19","slug":"king-charles-former-butler-lifts-lid-on-royal-family-christmas-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/?p=10012","title":{"rendered":"King Charles\u2019 former butler lifts lid on Royal Family Christmas | Lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2025\/12\/06\/22\/ef87df37582e35abf19e4bc331fc0585Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzY1MTAwNDEx-2.78566616.jpg?width=1200&amp;auto=webp&amp;crop=3%3A2\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"sc-16tfhmx-0 kRpLxt description\">\n<p>King Charles\u2019 former butler has given a rare insight into the Royal Family\u2019s Christmas, from the monarch\u2019s favourite tipples, cheeky gifts and Prince William\u2019s secret shopping trips.<\/p>\n<p>Grant Harrold, also known as The Royal Butler, worked for the King and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry up until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to The Independent, Mr Harrold lifted the lid on the Royal family\u2019s Christmas traditions, from giving funny gifts on Christmas Eve, to their delicious Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed whether the King himself will be watching is address to the nation on Christmas Day at 3pm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles\u2019 former butler has given a rare insight into the Royal Family\u2019s Christmas, from the monarch\u2019s favourite tipples, cheeky gifts and Prince William\u2019s secret shopping trips. Grant Harrold, also known as The Royal Butler, worked for the King and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and Prince Harry up until 2011. Speaking exclusively to The Independent, Mr Harrold lifted the lid on the Royal family\u2019s Christmas traditions, from giving funny gifts on Christmas Eve, to their delicious Christmas dinner. He also revealed whether the King himself will be watching is address to the nation on Christmas Day at 3pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekyourlove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}