4. It Took a Prince Albert to Get People Interested in Christmas Trees
In Britain, at least. The earliest attested tree in North America came along nearly a century earlier whilst looking for a little Christmas cheer in a Canadian garrison. But it wasnt until those bountiful, bonking Victorians got together, however, that the idea of decorating a large lump of foliage in front rooms tickled the fancy of the British proletariat. Before then itd predominantly been something only the royals did but, for some reason, it caught on with the Victorians. That and consumption. A drawing of the royal couple enjoying their tree indoors was plastered into the Illustrated London Evening News in 1848 and then republished in a magazine in Philadelphia ... but the Queens crown and Prince Alberts ... moustache, were removed! Stop thinking that you wicked child!