TWENTY family members will be joining the Queen for Christmas, including Charles and Camilla and five of her great-grandchildren.
The bash at Windsor Castle will involve about half the number normally expected at Sandringham.
It will be the 95-year-old monarch’s first Christmas since the death of Prince Philip in April.
Before a meal, she and 16 family members will open gifts in the castle’s Crimson Drawing Room.
They will include Prince Edward, 57, his wife Sophie Wessex with their children James and Louise, and Prince Andrew, 61.
Also there will be Princesses Beatrice, 33, and Eugenie, 31, their husbands Edo Mapelli Mozzi and Jack Brooksbank and children August and Sienna.
Mike and Zara Tindall, and their children Mia, Lena and Lucas, will spend the night at Windsor too.
Prince Charles, 73, and Camilla, 74, yesterday revealed they would join the Queen for Christmas Day and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester are also expected.
But Prince William and Kate, both 39, and children George, Charlotte and Louis, will be in Norfolk, and joined by members of the Middleton family.
Princess Anne, 71, has also been ruled out as she is in isolation after husband Tim Lawrence tested positive for Covid-19.
The family will have a Christmas lunch before sitting together to watch the Queen’s address on TV.
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Her Majesty is not expected to make her traditional visit to church tomorrow or on Sunday.
She has been on “light duties” since spending a night in hospital more than two months ago.
The Queen axed her big family bash at Sandringham and a lunch with 50 members of her extended family due to Covid fears.
