Fascinating video ! Christmas was certainly being celebrated by the wealthy before Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840 and was even written about by Charles Dickens in the Christmas chapter ("A Christmas at Dingley Dell") of his December, 1836 volume of his best-selling novel, "The Pickwick Papers". Likewise, America´s Washington Irving had already described a country home Christmas in his "Sketchbook" back in 1820, just as the poem "The Night before Christmas" was published in 1823. As you say, Prince Albert certainly gave the impetus for popularizing Christmas on a much larger scale, with Dickens publishing his ever-popular "Christmas Carol" in 1843, the same year, as you also say, that Sir Henry Cole commissioned the first Christmas card, with Tom Smith´s Christmas crackers coming out only four years later.
Fascinating video ! Christmas was certainly being celebrated by the wealthy before Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840 and was even written about by Charles Dickens in the Christmas chapter ("A Christmas at Dingley Dell") of his December, 1836 volume of his best-selling novel, "The Pickwick Papers". Likewise, America´s Washington Irving had already described a country home Christmas in his "Sketchbook" back in 1820, just as the poem "The Night before Christmas" was published in 1823. As you say, Prince Albert certainly gave the impetus for popularizing Christmas on a much larger scale, with Dickens publishing his ever-popular "Christmas Carol" in 1843, the same year, as you also say, that Sir Henry Cole commissioned the first Christmas card, with Tom Smith´s Christmas crackers coming out only four years later.
Death 💀 and Christmas 🎄 , that was the Victorian national pastime and not always necessarily in that order