the date that Sir Henry Cole printed the first commercial Christmas card. How many Christmas cards are sent each year? In the UK an estimated 1.8 billion Christmas cards are sent each year!

The lack of snowy steeples and robins isn't a surprise, as royal Christmas cards rarely seem to show any signs of winter. And the message, printed in ... used their card to address grievances ...

It has become a festive tradition for the Royal Family to release Christmas cards, with images carefully selected from the previous 12 months ... In 1957, the first British Royal Christmas card ...

The custom of mailing printed Christmas cards began in the middle decades ... which allowed Britons to mail letters to any address in the United Kingdom for the small price of a penny stamp.

The end result was a jolly, fun Christmas card depicting the Cole family feasting at a table with drawings of charitable giving. Henry had 1000 of these cards printed and those he didn’t use, he sold ...