By all accounts the eating of Goose at Christmas as part of the festivities came about because on Christmas Eve 1588 Queen Elizabeth I was dining on Goose at Greenwich palace when the long awaited news reached her that the Spanish Armada had been defeated.
Relieved
and delighted she decreed that roast goose should be served at Christmas to
mark the historic event.
It
was her father Henry VIII who is widely regarded to be the first person known
to eat Turkey on Christmas day.
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