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COOL RUNNINGS KEEP FIT THIS WINTER THE CHRISTMAS JUMPER CRAIG DAVID CRAZE LIGHTING UP CHRISTMAS FREE A ROYALLY GOOD TIME Photo Credit: PA Images with the Queen at Christmas JENNIFER ANISTON The Friends star’s new role...Office Christmas Party Vision StanmoreEdgware | Edition 8 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V1 B USHW O OD A NTIQ UES A warehouse and two showrooms with over 8,000 items of Georgian, Victorian & Edwardian furniture Also lighting, clocks and decorative objects Monday to Friday 8.30 am - 4pm Sat. / Sun. & Bank Holidays 10 am - 4pm Stags End Gaddesden Lane Hemel Hempstead Herts HP2 6HN Tel: 01582 794 700 E-mail: [email protected] Visit our website at: www.bushwood.co.uk V2 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V3 6 CHRISTMAS WITH V Editor’s THE QUEEN CONTENTS 9 HISTORY notes... 11 HOME & DIY Hello and welcome to the 27 GARDENING eighth edition of VISION Stanmore & Edgware. 29 CRAIG DAVID DEC16 The year has flown by and, before we knew it, 31 KIDS we’re already in December. With Christmas on its 33 FOOD & DRINK way, we show you the Misha Mistry, Design Editor top tips for preparing 37 LOCAL NEWS for the festivities, decorating the home and four crafty ways to wrap your gifts. 38 JENNIFER ANISTON Take a peek inside to see three pages of exclusive content on how the Queen and Royal Family 47 FASHION celebrate the Christmas period. While the school holidays may be looming, VISION 49 BEAUTY has the ultimate delicious, fun-filled activity for kids to try. 53 HEALTH & FITNESS In food and drink, we have the perfect mulled wine cocktail recipe, but, with all this delicious temptation 61 BUSINESS & FINANCE around, we’ve equalled it out, sharing the best ways to watch that winter waistline. 65 TRAVEL In this month’s local news, find out how local children have been doing their bit for Children in 69 SPORTS Need with two local schools playing a starring role on the night. We also have the latest from the 72 MOTORING Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore as their bid to expand continues. Local news and stories are important to us so if you have something you CONTACT US | [email protected] would like to share, email [email protected] 01442 254894 | 07883 789530 Merry Christmas and an even happier new year to EDITOR | Nik Allen | [email protected] all our advertisers and readers. DESIGN EDITOR | Misha Mistry | [email protected] Happy reading and see you in 2017, CO-ORDINATOR | Holly Worthington | [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS | Charles Rae, Gemma Wilson-Vidal, Tim Green, Harry Crawford Misha 15. ORLANDO, 17. SALAMI, 19. LEERS, 20. OUTDO 20. LEERS, 19. SALAMI, 17. ORLANDO, 15. 2. ESTATES, 3. CADENZA, 4. IMPUGN, 5. AESOP, 6. EVOKE, 7. AD INFINITUM, 8. LEGERDEMAIN, 14. COCONUT, 14. LEGERDEMAIN, 8. INFINITUM, AD 7. EVOKE, 6. AESOP, 5. IMPUGN, 4. CADENZA, 3. ESTATES, 2. DOWN 22. URE, 23. TRAIN, 24. ASSOCIATION 24. TRAIN, 23. URE, 22. 1. DEACTIVATED, 9. DUPES, 10. ORE, 11. IRATE, 12. PEEVE, 13. FREEZING, 16. OSBOURNE, 18. IGLOO, 21. OBAMA, 21. IGLOO, 18. OSBOURNE, 16. FREEZING, 13. PEEVE, 12. IRATE, 11. ORE, 10. DUPES, 9. DEACTIVATED, 1. ACROSS V4 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V5 One year Kate is believed to have bought Harry a plastic grow your own girlfriend kit, hand-made fishing flies for Prince Philip and a simple silver picture frame for the Queen. At least this year Kate will have to think of a more novel gift for her brother-in-law Christmas as he is now dating Canadian actress Meghan Markle, who is not expected at Sandringham. with the Another year, one guest gave the Queen a rubber chicken, which sat on the table and squawked. Prince Charles is said to still use a white leather loo-seat Queen given to him by his sister, Princess Anne. Prince Harry ...an orderly affair once gave his grandmother a bath hat with the slogan round 30 members of the Royal Family tree — a 20ft Norfolk spruce taken from the 1,000- “Ain’t life a bitch!” on it. will soon be under starter’s orders to acre estate. Some years ago, the Queen also received a singing Billy Bass spend Christmas with Her Majesty the Over home-baked scones and Earl Grey tea, which is reputedly on a piano in Balmoral. AQueen. each member will also exchange presents — not Presents exchanged, they will all move through to the hall for And it will all run like a military operation as they on Christmas Day, which the Queen regards as a drinks — Martinis mixed by a servant are popular, while the experience the Victorian splendour of Sandringham religious festival. Queen sips her usual gin and Dubonnet. House in Norfolk. Trestle tables are laid out in the nearby Red Her Majesty will also be keen that the row between Prince Each adult member of the Royal Family will have to Drawing Room, with sections marked off with tape Charles and Prince Andrew, who has demanded a more navigate the quicksands of protocol that surround showing where each family member’s gifts should Royal role for his daughters Princesses Beatrice and the festive ritual. be placed. Eugenie, will be put to one side for the time being. First, guests are told what time they should arrive Princess Diana long ago realised what a minefield Then it’s back to their rooms for baths and a second at Sandringham — most junior Royals first, most giving presents can be to the family that already has change of clothes. senior last. everything. Kate has admitted she does feel nervous about the By early afternoon on Christmas Eve, however, Generously, she bought cashmere and other luxury wardrobe pressure, confiding to a fellow guest at a everyone will be in attendance. items for her in-laws, only to discover that the key to charity event that she would have to change five They will be ushered to their rooms, with some success in royal present-giving is cheapness. Joke times on Christmas Day alone. “second tier” royals being billeted in the servants’ gifts, the cheaper the better, are the order of the For dinner, the men will be dressed in black tie, quarters, doubling up and sharing rooms. day. the women in evening gowns and jewels. After At 4pm, all having changed into suitable outfits for The Queen has an unwritten rule that gifts are to be a gong at 8pm for pre-dinner drinks, the family tea, the family gathers in the White Drawing Room, as simple as possible, partly so that the real reason will sit down to a candlelit, three-course dinner where the Queen will encourage the young Royals for Christmas is not forgotten in a sea of wrapping at 8.15pm, usually made from local produce to help put the finishing touches to the Christmas paper. such as Norfolk shrimp and game. V6 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 ViSIOnStanmoreEdgware edition 8 | to advertise call 01442 254894 V7 Afterwards, at around 10pm, the women move to Her Majesty is the only one not present – she V another room for coffee, while the men are offered prefers to view the programme in private. liqueurs. Only afterwards do the senior footmen and butlers WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR HISTORY The Queen normally doesn’t go to bed until get the chance for lunch, with the royal chef the last midnight, and no one may leave the party until Her to eat at around 4pm, while the royals go for a walk CHRISTMAS MASSACRE IN 1066 Majesty retires. with the dogs, play charades or watch TV. On Christmas morning, each member of the family Tea is served with an enormous iced Christmas edieval folk were no strangers to Christmas wakes to find stockings at the foot of their bed, filled cake, and then at 8.15pm everyone eats again – a excitement – in some cases certainly not with small gifts and fruit chosen by the Queen. candlelit meal, usually lamb, while the staff are given Mthe sort we know today. Christmas Day starts with a full English breakfast, cold meats. William the Conqueror was crowned King of before the annual outing to Sandringham parish Boxing Day sees a kedgeree breakfast, followed England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in church at 11am, where a crowd of up to 1,000 well- by the traditional pheasant shoot on the estate, 1066 – 950 years ago. wishers are expected to gather to see the family with the men shooting and the Queen picking up This was such a momentous occasion that the arrive together. the birds. cheering inside the Abbey made the guards outside The sermon must never exceed 12 minutes, in As usual, Camilla is expected to be among the think the king was being attacked. They feared the case the sovereign’s eyes should glaze. first to leave Sandringham, travelling to Ray Mill, cries were the signals of violence within the building. The crowds which gather outside will be hoping her house in Wiltshire, where her children and five With the brutality that would mark the Norman that Kate and William will bring children Prince grandchildren will be waiting. rule for decades to come, they slaughtered all the George and Princess Charlotte with them on the As much as she loves Sandringham Christmases, bystanders they could before the area cleared, and traditional walkabout.