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Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas & Sean McPolin

Inside Radford Family's lavish Christmas with £5k spent on presents and sweet traditions

For many, Christmas is all about spending time with your close family - something which takes plenty of planning when you have the biggest in the country.

The Radford family, who live in a 10-bedroom home in Lancashire, will be busier than most during the festive period with their record brood of 22 children.

Sue and Noel Radford are parents to Chris, 32, Sophie, 27, Chloe, 26, Jack, 24, Daniel, 22, Luke, 21, Millie, 20, Katie, 19, James, 18, Ellie, 16, Aimee, 15, Josh, 14, Max, 12, Tillie, 11, Oscar, 10, Casper, nine, Hallie, six, Phoebe, five, Archie, four, Bonnie, three, and Heidie, one.

They also have 11 grandchildren, and share their adventures with hundreds of thousands of fans on social media.

The Radford family from Lancashire spend £5,000 a year on presents for their 22 children (INSTAGRAM/THERADFORDFAMILY)

Giving a sneak peak into their jaw-dropping festive celebrations, the parents previously revealed they spend around £5,000 on presents alone, with Christmas Dinner also setting them back a few hundred pounds.

The family's festive month began this year with a special Elf on the Shelf breakfast, which includes a host Christmas crackers, boards games and puzzles to keep the children busy until December 25.

On top of the table a table setting was made up with red Christmas paper plates, each with a cracker on top and a festive glass jar mug.

A host of breakfast treats were also lined up in the centre of the mammoth table, ensuring no-one goes hungry.

Decorations always play a massive part in spreading the festive cheer, and in the Radford household things are no different.

Britain's largest family went for a red theme this year for Christmas (INSTAGRAM/THERADFORDFAMILY)
The family, who live in Lancashire, usually have seven trees but have only opted for two this year (INSTAGRAM/THERADFORDFAMILY)

This time, the family decided to 'deck the halls' with a traditional red theme topped off by giant bauble balloon which reads: "Special elf delivery, The Radfords."

With not much space left above the fire, the family hang 25 stockings at the the beginning of December and have opted for just the two Christmas trees - a change from the usual seven.

The trees have been given a special touch with a huge ribbon near the top, and are topped with candy canes.

As well as having £250 splashed on them, every year each child receives a box of goodies on Christmas Eve which include pyjamas, hot chocolate, a mug and sweets.

Then, when the big day arrives and after presents are opened, the family sit down for their dinner which costs around £300 - the same as their usual weekly shop.

Each child receives a box of goodies on Christmas Eve, which includes pyjamas, hot chocolate, a mug and sweets (INSTAGRAM/THERADFORDFAMILY)

The couple tends to split the food duties with Sue doing the food shop and Noel, who runs the family's bakery, cooking for the day.

The family have three turkeys for the day but they also switch with gammon joints and beef.

Speaking on This Morning in 2018 Noel told hosts Ruth Langford and Eamonn Holmes: “We prep a lot the night before on Christmas Eve."

“We’ve got a table we can fit 16 around, we’ve got an island in the kitchen for another six and some double up.”

Sue hand-wraps each gift she buys, and it has previously been reported she can wrap around 20 presents every 15 minutes.

She and Noel get through around 70 rolls of wrapping paper each year to cater to their massive flock.

The Radfords don't claim any public money other than child benefit (INSTAGRAM/THERADFORDFAMILY)

With so many kids to buy for preparations have to start early, and Sue revealed on Instagram last month that she had started buying gifts and shared a photo of her car's boot full of toys for her children.

She told her 493,000 followers: "Christmas shopping has begun. Anyone else like me this year and so not organised?

"Just can't seem to get in the mood for it this year."

The childhood sweethearts, who have been together for 30 years, say spending quality time with family is everything to them, having recently spent some Christmases abroad. This year Noel and three of his daughters headed off for a trip to New York, as well as visiting Disneyland Paris.

They are also the stars of hit Channel 5 show 22 Kids and Counting, and last year were seen riding across fields of snow in Finland on a reindeer sleigh before returning home to volunteer at a local shelter.

The Radfords, who live in a former care home, don't claim any public money other than child benefits and are financially supported by their pie shop business.

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