Christmas Every Day

More in our Christmas Dinner in Strange Places series.

Royal flunkeys bring in the boar’s head and a monstrous pie for the royal dinner of Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

A look at Christmas fare in the officers’ mess in a British army encampment during the Crimea War, 1855.

The first is a series on Christmas dinner in strange places as depicted in 19th-century illustrated news sources. 

The fare here is meagre but the room is suspiciously roomy and clean.