PRINCE Harry’s animal-loving fiancee Meghan Markle may find Christmas with the royals a little awkward due to a long-standing festive tradition the family enjoy.
Harry reportedly surprised gamekeepers at Sandringham with his decision to skip the festive post-breakfast shoot last year – and it’s not clear if he make the same decision again this year in an apparent bid to please his wife.
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Prince Charles and Prince William always take part in the annual ritual on the 20,000-acre estate.
Last year, as reports suggested Harry would be skipping the tradition to please Meghan – his fiancée at the time – a royal insider said: “The Boxing Day shoot was always going to be a tricky issue.
“Meghan is a keen animal rights campaigner and doesn’t like hunting in any form.
“Harry loves it and has always been out there on Boxing Day. But if it means breaking with long-standing royal traditions to avoid upsetting her, so be it. It’s fair to say that there are some pretty stunned faces around here.”
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A pal of Harry’s added: “If Meghan’s not comfortable with him doing the shoot, he wouldn’t want to upset her.”
Meghan is known as an animal rights campaigner.
She has previously said that she sticks to a vegan diet when filming shows, and has said: “I try to eat vegan during the week and then have a little bit more flexibility with what I dig into on the weekends.”
The new royal has also previously refused to wear fur.
Her activism even led Piers Morgan to joke that Meghan and Harry’s baby will be a “gender fluid vegan”.
“There’s so much to say about a woman who’s three months pregnant,” Piers said sarcastically on Good Morning Britain.
“Will it eat meat or will it be a vegan? I reckon she’ll put it through the ringer and it’ll be vegan.
“It’ll be a gender fluid vegan.”