The royal family is known for their strange rules and traditions, including not eating dinner after the queen has eaten hers and forbidding fish knives from the dinner table. However, one of the lesser known rules meant that the Sandringham estate had its own time zone.
The rule was carried out by King Edward VII, the Queen’s great-grandfather, and continued for years after his death.
Her Majesty stays at the Norfolk Estate a few times a year, but especially at Christmas.
As a young girl, the Queen regularly visited Sandringham to see her grandfather, King George V.
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra were the first members of the royal family to live on the 20,000-acre estate.
While he was the Prince of Wales, Edward bought the estate in 1862 for £220,000.
He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark the following year and they both lived in Sandringham.
While the estate is now only visited by the royal family and is not a permanent residence for any of its members, the Queen’s predecessors lived there all year round.
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While experts agree that the time zone was used purely to make the most of the hunting season, rumors suggested the clocks had been changed so that Queen Alexandra was on time for the events.
George V continued the tradition of the different time zones after the death of Edward VII.
However, King Edward VIII abolished the confusing rule while he was monarch, and it was not reinstated by King George VI or Her Majesty.