How many of you have to use annual leave over the Christmas period?

We’re over halfway in the year and like a lot of people, I have used all my annual leave for the year. I have took the majority of already however I do have a two week holiday coming up in a few weeks, an extended bank holiday weekend in August but I have also had to use three days to book off over the Christmas period. This is the first job in my life where I have had Christmas off, which is nice, but then again it’s three days of my holiday which are more or less allocated and although I would personally rather take it unpaid everyone in my company was requested to book it off at the start of the year when the holidays reset. I work in a good company and have asked if I could get that time back and just take that period off as unpaid as I would like to book a few last-minute holidays before the end of the year and if I do not, I will just take Christmas as paid. Does anybody else have to book that time off? I know most do but I was wondering if there were any companies that give Christmas off without the use of annual leave.