Government House Ready to Host Holiday Cheer

The creative Christmas Decorating Committee has decked Government House in its annual festive splendour.

Beginning at 9 a.m., 21 Committee volunteers and four floral designers took five hours to assemble and decorate six trees, Her Honour’s office, the ballroom, the foyer, fireplace mantles, outside the coat check, and the dining, drawing, and Maclure rooms in traditional Christmas colours.
Volunteers stopped only for a midmorning break with House-provided tea, coffee (with Baileys if desired), pastries, and a pizza lunch.  

The drawing room tree is decorated predominately in blue and silver and topped with a red cardinal. Her Honour’s tree is all in white, and the others are multicoloured.
A crown tops the foyer tree  purchased by Alison Leamy at the Buckingham Palace gift shop.
Says her daughter Shelia, “We visited Windsor Castle in 2015 and saw the trees were decorated with these “royal” crowns. Each year Mom would place the crown on the foyer tree. Now I guess it is my job!” Be sure to visit soon whether during a tour, at the Christmas Luncheon, or the singalong. as the decorations will be taken down on January 6.