Father Christmas arriving at the Arding and Hobbs store in Clapham Junction, London, 2nd November 1926. (Photo by H. F. Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
A girl takes a nap during a Christmas eve mass at a Catholic church on the outskirts of Taiyuan, North China's Shanxi province, December 24, 2016. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)
Archive: A group of people dressed as Santa Claus wait for the bus on December 1960, London, England. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Modern Day: Passengers wait for busses in Holborn on November 24, 2017 in London, England. (Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/Getty Images)
A chimp motions for Santa to deliver his gift during Lion Country Safari's annual Christmas with the Chimps on Thursday, December 20, 2012. (Photo by Bruce R. Bennett/The Palm Beach Post)
Meerkats at ZSL (Zoological Society of London) London Zoo received an early Christmas gift from their keepers of home-made crackers filled with meal worms and locusts on December 17, 2009 in London, England. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)
A house and garden is illuminated ahead of Christmas in Olching near Munich December 11, 2014. The house is decorated with more than 30,000 lights. Every year hundreds of houses across Germany are decorated by their owners with lights ahead of Christmas. (Photo by Michaela Rehle/Reuters)
A home is decorated with a display of Christmas of lights in a tradition that has grown over recent years in the small village of Westfield in Sussex, south east England, December 15, 2016. (Photo by Toby Melville/Reuters)