And now for another angle on Christian's confirmation.
https://www.bt.dk/royale/kongehusek...s-christians-konfirmation-han-har-naeppe-haft
The historian Michael Bregnsbro says that Christian hardly has had any say in regards to his confirmation, let alone whether he wanted to be confirmed at all.
Being a future king and head of the state church he has to be confirmed. And that means that certain things regarding his celebration and the guests are determined in advance.
- Well, no surprise there.
His siblings will, at least on paper, have a more free hand in regards to whether they want to be celebrated. In reality IMO certainly Isabella will have no choice either. She is the spare and must be expected to stand in for Christian from time to time - and in the case of a major tragedy...
But there are some things about the confirmation, historically, that was new to me.
It was normal up to 1960 or so to leave school after 7th grade and that was also the same time you were confirmed.
The popular remarks in DK that you by having been confirmed now enter the ranks of the adults was to a large extent true. At least around 100 years ago.
You were examined at your confirmation back then, about the Christian faith and you could actually fail the examination.
If you failed, you couldn't become an apprentice, you couldn't sign legal documents, you couldn't become a soldier, you couldn't get married, you couldn't take an oath. (*)
That didn't mean you had full legal rights though. You still couldn't vote until you were older, if were you were eligible to vote at all. That depended on when you were confirmed in regards to the changes in the Constitution. It was only after the change of the Constitution in 1915 that for example women and domestic servants were allowed to vote.
(*) A Danish oath is based on "faith and law" I.e. I pledge on faith and law that...
So if you weren't a part of the State Church or any other religious community, you couldn't pledge on your faith.