Baptism of Princess Ariane: October 20, 2007
 

Quoting Henri M.

Here the announcement of the baptism (in Dutch).

The service will be lead by Rvd. Deodaat van der Boon, who also baptised Alexia in Wassenaar. The reverend usually preaches at the Dorpskerk in Wassenaar. The music will be performed by the residentie kamerkoor (residence chamber choir) under fdirection of Jos Vermunt

:flowers:I'm very excited about the christening. We saw the three girls at Crown Prince Willem-Alexander's birthday so I am looking forward to seeing the other Orange-Nasseu children Eloise, Claus-Casimir, Leonor, Luana and Zaria. I'm sure they have changed so much

It might be a stupid quesion, but do we know who will attend (from the other RFs) and who godparents will be?
I don't mean to start endless speculation, just facts or the fairly certain.

they usually release the announcement of the godparents and guests sooner the date, so we will soon know!

True, just a week or even a few days before the actual baptism. I don´t expect a huge royal turn-out though, just the Dutch RF and maybe the obligatory royal godparent & spouse.

So sort of the same scale as for Isabella's or maybe even smaller? I'm looking foreward to it!

Wonder why Ariane is getting baptised in the Hague - wasn't her sister Alexia baptised in Wassenaar?

Alexia was yes, but Amalia was christened in The Hague too :smile: All three at different churches I believe as well

The Dorpskerk in Wassenaar was too small to host all the people they wanted to invite last time, so they looked for a bigger place. And the Kllosterkerk is just perfect for that, it is the Queens regular church and it is located between all kinds of (former) palaces, on the Lange Voorhout/Kneuterdijk.

Thanks for the answers, Marengo and JessRulz! Agree the famous historic Kloosterkerk makes all the sense in the world (plus it's in the Hague and I've never had a thing for snootier-than-thou Wassenaar anyways!):flowers:

Doop Ariane live uitgezonden - DAG

It will be live on tv saterday

The programme:

10.00 hr Arrival of guests
11.05 hr Arrival of representatives of the Corps Diplomatique,
chairmen of the first and second chamberm the prime
minister, mayor of The Hague
11.10 hr Arrival of the Royal family, fgodparents and other special
guests
11.10 hr Arrival of the Prince of Orange, Princess Maxima and their
daughters
11.15 hr Start live broadcasting on Ned1
11.30 hr Christening service
12.45 hr Guests will leave

Thanks for the programme. The service seems to be short. Will the cp couple hold a small lunch after the baptism for the guest's.

Probably not, it is each for his own after the baptism

according to that program on dutch tv that is on every day arond 7 pm, their royal commentator said the royal godparent would be Leatizia because, the other two girls had......... as royal godparent (one of them was mette marit I think) and he could see a pattern.He had then called the spanish embassy and they had confirmed that Leatizia would be in Holland on Saterday but not for what event, wonder if it true :online2lo

I hope Letizia will be one of the godmothers of Princess Ariane :flowers:

The Royal House site opened a special page dedicated to the upcoming baptism.You will find all information here,soon.
Het Koninklijk Huis

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Thank you very much for share the information with us!
Will they public the names of the godparents in this page?

Yes,but not untill the service has started saturday I'm afraid.
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