The Royal Family may have their unique ways of celebrating Christmas – but one festive activity the Wales family enjoys is one many of us relish up and down the country.

Like many others, it seems the Prince and Princess of Wales love nothing more than cracking out a board game to play alongside their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. However, he admitted there’s one game they all love – although it often leaves them “very cross”. William made the admission during a special chat in 2021 with Radio Marsden, a radio station that serves the Royal Marsden Hospital of which he is a patron. The hospital specialises in cancer care. During the chat, children took turns to ask William sweet Christmas-themed questions. One boy, Henry asked the future King: “What is your favourite board game?”

And William replied: “Henry, we are playing board games with the children quite a lot. We love Monopoly, that’s good and Risk, have you played Risk before? That’s a good board game, it goes on for hours and usually, everyone gets very cross because they lose. But that’s what I like playing.”

Elsewhere in the interview, William also revealed that Elf is his favourite Christmas movie, Feliz Navidad is his favourite Christmas song and he also confessed he had no idea what Elf On The Shelf was. One youngster called Theo asked William: “I love Elf on the Shelf – is Elf on the Shelf coming to your house?” But taken aback by the question, William had to admit: “So Theo, I don’t actually know what Elf on the Shelf is, but it sounds quite fun and I’d quite like to have an Elf on my Shelf in my house.”

This year, William spent Christmas at Sandringham with Kate, George, Charlotte and Louis as King Charles hosted the second festive season of his reign. As always, they appeared during the morning trip to St Mary Magdalene Church for a traditional service before greeting of well-wishers, and a sitting down to a family lunch with turkey and all the trimmings.

They will then have watched Charles’ second Christmas Broadcast as monarch,. Traditionally, members of the royal family sit down to watch the televised address when it airs after lunch at 3pm on December 25. It’s unknown what the family are doing for New Year – but they may spend it at their Norfolk botlhole of Anmer Hall.