The Christmas tree, a popular German tradition by ... credited with popularizing the tree, he wasn’t the first royal to bring the German tradition to England. Victoria – who was herself ...

it was during the Victorian era that the Christmas tree began to take on its modern form. Queen Victoria and her German husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, also her first cousin ...

In 1848 the Illustrated London News published a drawing of the royal family celebrating around a decorated Christmas tree, a tradition that was reminiscent of Prince Albert's childhood in Germany.