How POSH are your decorations? Tatler lists baubles every well-heeled home should own including a dangling Mr Darcy, a £45 Queen's head and even festive-themed GUN cartridges

  • Society magazine lists decorations discerning houses should have this year
  • They include a dangling Mr Darcy, priced at £11.99 from the Jane Austen centre 
  • Royals feature too, with corgis and the Queen in bronze appearing on the list   

Forget metres of multi-coloured tinsel and Rudolph baubles, if you really want to impress visitors this Christmas, you might want a Shakespearean character pinned to your tree. 

According to society magazine Tatler, a few key cultural references - to literary heroes and the royals - can make one appear altogether more debonair.

The London-based edition of the magazine has conjured up a list of tree decorations that reflect life in the upper classes during the festive season.

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Colin Firth for Christmas? A cloth doll Darcy is the perfect sign of a discerning household according to society bible Tatler

Colin Firth for Christmas? A cloth doll Darcy is the perfect sign of a discerning household according to society bible Tatler

Regally priced: A glass statuette of the Queen in gold will set you back £45...around the same price as a real tree

Regally priced: A glass statuette of the Queen in gold will set you back £45...around the same price as a real tree

Hunt the decoration: Gun cartridges fashioned into festive baubles start at around £5 for one from online marketplace Etsy

Hunt the decoration: Gun cartridges fashioned into festive baubles start at around £5 for one from online marketplace Etsy

...but you might not want to place the empty shells next to this chap, a festive pheasant, £6 from John Lewis

...but you might not want to place the empty shells next to this chap, a festive pheasant, £6 from John Lewis

The article, entitled '12 posh Christmas tree decorations every Sloane should have' lists a dozen items to hang on one's (real, of course) Christmas tree.

There's a dangling Mr Darcy - a hand-made £11.99 cloth doll version of the hero in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice - and a 3D version of the Queen's head that appears on stamps.

The latter, a gold-coloured statuette in glass costs an eye-watering £45 and might sit well next to another of the magazine's suggestions; a fabric corgi wearing a very regal red jacket with the royal crest on it. Again, an eye-watering £45 in price. 

This gold-stitched corgi decoration comes with a £45 price tag...but wears the royal crest around its middle

This gold-stitched corgi decoration comes with a £45 price tag...but wears the royal crest around its middle

Wow your Christmas guests with a nod to literature: Tatler suggests putting a cut-out of Shakespeare's Hamlet on your tree, complete with a version of Yorick's skull

Wow your Christmas guests with a nod to literature: Tatler suggests putting a cut-out of Shakespeare's Hamlet on your tree, complete with a version of Yorick's skull

The upper classes' love of hunting is also in evidence with festive-themed gun cartridges - available on online marketplace Etsy - appearing in the article. 

The shells have been upcycled with Father's Christmas' face - and appear alongside a John Lewis feathered pheasant decoration, a snip at just £6; perhaps not the most natural of tree-fellows? 

Last week, it emerged that a Cheshire businessman earns up £4,000 a time decorating the houses of the rich and famous. 

A nip of gin when no-one's looking: these brightly-coloured baubles cost £30 for six and contain Pickering's gin

A nip of gin when no-one's looking: these brightly-coloured baubles cost £30 for six and contain Pickering's gin

Tom Harrington, who runs Harrington's Christmas Decorators in Cheshire, begins planning a year in advance and has clients including footballer Phil Bardsley and his wife Tanya, who called Harrington her 'little Christmas angel'.

Decorations can cost from £1,500 up to £4,000 depending on the size of the home, with the company working with some very famous clients.

Harrington told Manchester Evening News they're at their busiest from November until January when they take the decorations down and put them into storage.

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