A Different Take on a British Tradition
The episode highlighted by Vickers opens with Meghan deciding to make her own Christmas crackers for family members, carefully choosing the gifts, jokes, and surprises to place inside the familiar rolled cardboard tubes wrapped in festive paper. Traditionally, Christmas crackers are store-bought and pulled apart by two people at the dinner table, with a paper crown, a corny joke, and a small novelty prize randomly claimed by whoever ends up with the larger half.
Meghan, however, puts her own spin on the tradition by creating personalised crackers, selecting specific gifts for each intended recipient rather than leaving the contents to chance.
Links to Royal Christmases Questioned
Vickers suggested that Meghan’s approach was designed to evoke her brief experience of royal Christmas celebrations. “Of course, naturally, sort of relating crackers to being an English Christmas, as if to say, this is what the royal family does,” he said. “It seems as if she is trying to link it back to the couple of Christmases she spent at Sandringham.”