Meet the amazing characters from Christmas past at Auckland Castle

A CAST of hundreds makes up a Christmas past at Auckland Castle. There’s a chestnut seller with terrible teeth, there’s a Turk in a turban with a monkey on a chain, there’s an extremely buxom lady spinning thread at a table lined with bread, there’s a fat cat trying to dip its paw into a barrel of shellfish, there’s music from minstrels with pipes and drums and trumpets and sitars but still a lazy shepherd sleeps on blissfully unaware of the hubbub around him, and, round the side, there’s a wild boar being savaged most gorily in the neck by a toothy hound.

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