#the scenes when bella is confirmed next year and has a much grander confirmation than her older brother 🤣

[everythingroyalty]

who do you thinks gonna be at the confirmation?

Well, Joachim, Marie, John and Susan not bothering to go just opened a lot of space 🥴 So 25... since the DRF considers it a private event, I doubt we’ll get an official guest list. I’m thinking they’ll go for the closest (family and people special to Christian) for the 25 in the church, and then I think they might pop up an open pavilion outside for the celebration afterwards.

Essentials (9):

Queen Margrethe II

Crown Prince Frederik

Crown Princess Mary

Prince Christian

Princess Isabella

Prince Vincent

Princess Josephine

Prince Nikolai

Prince Felix

I’d be surprised if not (3):

Princess Benedikte (I can’t imagine Benedikte won’t be there)

Jeppe and Birgitte Handwerk (Jeppe being the only of Christian’s godparents who’ll “be able” to go (🙄) and together with Birgitte, they’re some of M&F’s closest friends)

Very likely (3):

Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (another family member who lives in Denmark, she’s also close to M&F (but not close enough for them to make her godmother of one of the kids 😒), I can definitely see her going)

Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille (Alexandra’s husband and a friend of M&F (and Vincent’s godfather), if Alexandra is going, I’m pretty sure Michael is too)

Countess Ingrid von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth (Alexandra’s daughter who also lives in Denmark and have spent a lot of time with Christian growing up)

Outer tier of likeliness but not straight up unlikely (7):

Mette Hansen (Christian and his siblings’ former nanny. They’ve had several nannies, I only know the names of a few of them, but I know they were very close to Mette and I can imagine her getting an invite – probably alongside some of the other people (based in Denmark) who’ve been and still are close to the children)

The children’s chamber assistant (no name man or The Manny™, an aide-de-camp type of person M&F hired last year)

The Handwerk daughters (they’d obviously accompany their parents and they’re also close to both Christian and Bella)

One of QMII’s ladies-in-waiting (my guess would be Annelise Wern who, I believe, is the longest serving of her four LiWs – if she’s going, Benedikte might bring hers as well)

Count Ingolf and Countess Sussie of Rosenborg (listen, I’m grasping at straws here but Ingolf is QMII’s cousin and since so many other people aren’t able to go, maybe they’ve invited them?)

OR, Christian might have invited his friends to go? That would be a neat touch since he won’t be confirmed alongside his classmates like you’d usually be.

I’m sort of on the edge about whether or not they’d invite friends beyond the Handwerks and Michael ALB (who’d go in capacity of Alexandra’s husband). When there’s restricted attendance, it very easily becomes a game of Which Friends Are We Closest To 😬 My gut tells me they’d probably hold off on the friends till the party afterwards but otherwise, this seems to be the closest circle:

Peter and Caroline Heering

Jørgen and Malou Skeel

Otto and Helle Reedtz-Thott

Rikke and Michael Juel Brandt

Christian and Elisabeth Buchwald

Bendt and Pernille Wedell

Ellen Hillingsø and Christoffer Castenskiold

Anders and Anne Holch Povlsen

All + children.

Probably not:

Countess Alexandra of Fredensborg (would LOVE it if Alexandra went when Joachim and Marie couldn’t be arsed to go but I fear M&F fear it would cause a stir)

Benedikte Tholstrup (Nikolai’s girlfriend – she might be invited to a possible party afterwards but I doubt she’d accompany Nikolai to the church)