Kate and Prince William’s two eldest children will take part in the walkabout from Sandringham House to St Mary Magdalene’s Church in Sandringham this year, one royal source claimed. And their presence could be pivotal in ending 2019 on a positive note, the source added, after the negative press brought upon the Royal Family by Prince Andrew’s association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. 

The unnamed source told The Sun: “It will be so sweet.

“George and Charlotte will make their Christmas debut, as long as they’re both on good form on the day.

“It’s the picture all royal fans want to see. 

“The royals walking to church on Christmas Day is a rite of passage and so William and Kate didn’t want to expose their children too early, but they feel they’re old enough now. 

“After all the negative focus on Prince Andrew, these pictures will also emphasise the positive future of the Royal Family.

“Ultimately it’s the Queen who decides who does what on Christmas Day as it is a formal engagement.

“So perhaps she is conscious that this is a positive way in which to change the narrative.”

While George and Charlotte have reached an age deemed appropriate to attend what is effectively an official engagement, Prince Louis, who was born 18 months ago, will likely remain at Sandringham House even if his siblings were to head to the Christmas service.  

Kate and Prince William have been spotted heading to the Christmas Day service with George and Charlotte only in 2016, when the then family-of-four spent the festive season with the Middletons. 

Royal children usually start taking part in the walkabout between the Queen’s home in Norfolk and the church on the grounds of Sandringham between the age of four and six.

Prince William made his first official Christmas appearance in 1987, aged five, but he attended service with his mother Diana and father Charles at St George’s Chapel in Windsor.

His brother Harry was first spotted on a Christmas Day service in Sandringham aged four. 

Last year, another unnamed source had claimed Kate and William wanted to wait for both George and Charlotte to be old enough to do the walkabout together.

While the source claimed the Cambridges are heading to Sandringham next week, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are going to be spending Christmas with Archie Harrison and the Duchess of Sussex’ mother, Doria Ragland, as confirmed by a palace’s spokesperson in November. 

They said: “Having spent the last two Christmases at Sandringham, their Royal Highnesses will spend the holiday this year, as a new family, with the duchess’s mother, Doria Ragland.”

This decision, the spokesperson added, is “in line with precedent set previously by other members of the Royal Family”, such as Kate and William who stayed with the Middletons over Christmas both in 2012 and 2016.

This move, they added, received “the support of Her Majesty The Queen”.     

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