King Charles and Queen Camilla Lead Christmas Walk During an Extra Special Year for Camilla

The royal family makes an annual walk to church for a Christmas Day service

King Charles and Queen Camilla are spending Christmas with family.

The monarch, 75, and his wife, 76, lead the royal family during their annual walk to church on Christmas Day. Each year, they attend the service at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Norfolk, near the royal residence of Sandringham.

Both King Charles and Queen Camilla walked with an umbrella, ready for any rain.

Queen Camilla wore a blue silk paisley dress under a camel cashmere coat by Anna Valentine and a beret by Philip Treacy. She accessorized with a memento of the late Queen Elizabeth's, her raspberry pip brooch.

Last year — during the first Christmas of King Charles' reign, taking place just months after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth — the royals returned to the traditional holiday outing for the first time since 2019 as they had to scrap a large family gathering in 2020 and 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

They were joined by other members of the family, including Charles' son and heir Prince William with his family — his wife Kate Middleton and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

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This year is set to be an extra special holiday for Queen Camilla. While Camilla would leave the royal family's Christmas gathering in the afternoon to spend time with her children and grandchildren on the holiday in years past, King Charles reportedly invited his wife's family to Sandringham this year.

According to an ITV report from royals editor Chris Ship last month, Queen Camilla's children — Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes — and other members of her family were set to join the lunch for the first time this year.

The expanded guest list may mean a change of venue for the turkey feast. In a departure from the past and the days of the late Queen Elizabeth, the royals could sit down for lunch in the bigger ballroom rather than the dining room.

Other longstanding holiday traditions will likely be kept, from exchanging gag gifts on Christmas Eve to watching King Charles' speech broadcast at 3 p.m. on Christmas.

"Charles has always been very, very fond of Sandringham," royal biographer Ingrid Seward told PEOPLE last year. "Christmas within any family is always about tradition. He will keep it the same as it ever was."

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As in recent years, King Charles' son Prince Harry and daughter-in-law Meghan Markle did not attend the Christmas gathering in the U.K. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who live in California with their son Prince Archie and daughter Princess Lilibet, have not spent Christmas with the royals since 2018.

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