If Winthrop’s fortune came from Christmas trees, then Tabitha is the glittering ornament at the very top. A jet-setting cousin with a bottomless passport, she appears in December as if on cue—fresh from Paris, Vienna, or Marrakesh—with steamer trunks full of couture that somehow always nods to Christmas: a crimson silk trench lined in ermine, an emerald gown threaded with actual silver tinsel, or an haute couture cape clasped with vintage sleigh bells.

Tabitha never simply arrives—she sweeps in with snowglobes from Prague, hand-carved nutcrackers from Bavaria, Venetian glass ornaments, and Japanese origami cranes folded in red and gold. Guests never know what marvel she’ll produce next, only that it will outshine anything under the Retreat’s tree.

Where Winthrop embodies the sturdy evergreen, Tinsel is the sparkle on the branches—extravagant, unpredictable, and entirely indispensable to the Stags Head Retreat December season.