Heartbreaking reason why the queen does not remove Christmas decorations before February

For most of us, leaving Christmas decorations after January 6th would be considered a very bad luck.

But the queen leaves hers at Sandringham's family estate until early February – and there's a poignant reason for that.

In memory of the late King's father, King George VI, she stays in Sandringham to mark the anniversary of her death on February 6 and the Christmas decorations will remain in place until Prince Philip and she leave.

Her father died at the age of 56 in the property in 1952, while the queen was only 25 years old.

At the time, she was traveling to Kenya; she had to stop her tour and go back to the UK.

The queen wrote a sincere letter to her father's private secretary, revealing her deep sorrow after her untimely death.

A month after being named Queen, a young Queen Elizabeth wrote to Sir Eric Mievill: "It seems so incredible still that my father is gone and that it is only after a while that we begins to realize how much he misses. . "

Written by hand on March 3, 1952, the letter was one of the first Elizabeth's to bear her new signature as Queen – "Elizabeth R".

She wrote that she was "grateful" for her father's peaceful death and the way her husband, Philip, and her children, Charles, aged three, and Anne, 18 months old, were living. 39, helped to overcome his grief.

The moving message reads, "My mother and sister were great because they lost so much. I have my own family to help me. "

George VI had to start running again suddenly following the abdication of his brother, Edward VIII, in 1936.

Despite his unexpected role, he struggled to adapt and struggled, especially during the difficult years of the Second World War.

The decision of the family to remain in Britain during the war made them favorable to the public.