I stand corrected, Archduchess Zelia. ?
If this is an indication of the future, I'd say this looked like a dress rehearsal for especially Christian.
School permitting I think we are going to see him a great deal more, accompanying especially his dad in the future. And sooner than I personally expected.
He'll soon learn that listening to endless speeches is fun and so is looking at windmills.
And that will mean that Christian, especially considering how confident he is, will get tasks himself. That is cutting ribbons, giving short speeches and not least saying thanks for having a bridge, ferry, train named after him. For the first few years in the company of his parents, but otherwise with him taking center-stage.
And in a couple of years Isabella will start the same drill, presumably mainly with her mother. - I know, know gender-equality and gender-patterns and all that, but at least for a foreseeable future female royals are no matter what destined to absolutely love kindergartens.
Because I think Isabella is destined to remain a working royal. Partly as backup and partly "just in case..."
I also think it will be realistic to expect M&F to take one of the two yearly summer cruises in DK. And that means their children, or some of them, will accompany them.
The children have impressed me a lot on this tour!
Christian especially. He has actually looked like it did interest him. And he has been out there shaking hands with the public,
without needing a hand in his back pushing him. He seems to have good people-skills and that's crucial for a royal in his position.
Isabella has also impressed. She may not have been as outgoing as her brother but in her quiet way she has tagged along - without looking bored or pulling faces or doing anything else that could be seem as silly.
Vincent. Well, he just needs to stand there looking cherubic! According to my mother in law, that's enough for her to melt - that is when she isn't ready to just eat him!
Josephine, our showgirl. A bit under the weather and perhaps not that keen on all this royal tour thing. But still very well behaved, apart from the occasional yawning, which is minor detail that can and will be addressed I'm sure. - Perhaps they should bring her cousin Athena along for company on their next tour like this to Greenland or Australia?
- Because this IMO was very much a practice run for their next goodwill trip to Australia as well.
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