They open their presents on Christmas Eve, only give gag gifts and the Queen keeps her decorations up until February as a poignant tribute to her late father, according to reports.
Most of us hurry to put the tree away by the Twelfth Night on January 5, but Her Majesty does things a little differently.
She's said to keep her decs up until February 6, which marks the anniversary of her father's death.
King George VI passed away at Sandringham, where the royals celebrate Christmas, on that date in 1952.
And the Queen tends to stay in the Norfolk estate to mark the anniversary in private with Prince Philip before returning to Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.
While the prospect of a six-week Christmas holiday may sound like a dream, the Queen still works every day except December 25.
There are just two days-a-year when she doesn't receive a red box from the government – containing cabinet documents, telegrams and policy papers to be read and sometimes approved and signed – Christmas Day and Easter Sunday.
The Queen has Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle decked out with huge 20ft Christmas trees and twinkling fairy lights, although these are taken down in January.
And don't expect the Queen and Prince Philip to be enjoying such extravagant decorations right through January – the ones at Sandringham are said to be much more understated.
After returning to London, the Queen gets around five months off Christmas before she starts thinking about it all over again – as she begins signing her 800 cards in the summer.
It may not be Christmas every day for our monarch, but it's not far off.
In more royal news, Meghan Markle and Doria Ragland "will be weighed" before and after their Christmas dinner as part of a bizarre tradition.
While the Queen has told Meghan to dress "more like a royal and less like a Hollywood star", according to reports.
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