Danish Royal Family Christmas: 2024 -

[BJB]

I always feel that the same critics now complaining about the gingerbread video would be the same who would complain "we see the kids too little".

 

[polyesco]

It seems Nina has gotten the critic that is comming that the royal family is too pre-edited, so now she wants everyone to belive this of how teenagers spend their advent time when they Get to choose all by them self.

https://ekstrabladet.dk/underholdning/kongelige/danskekongelige/kommentator-langer-ud-efter-kongehuset-det-kammer-helt-over/11048877

Jakob Steen Olsen: Det ser måske sødt og harmløst ud – men faren lurer lige under det perfekte peberkagehus

Analyse. Den kongelige julevideo er sød og harmløs, men når Kongehuset arrangerer situationer for at gå viralt, risikerer de at skabe fiktion.

www.berlingske.dk

They all love Margrethe and Frederik video.

The critics will be critics.
They want to be a fly on the wall for royal kids and that is not going to happened.
The DRF have always given out Christmas videos, I remember one year of Christian and Isabella walking through the streets filming the Christmas decorations.
I think they had a meeting, okay we need an idea, and the kids gave their input. They prefer a video of gingerbread houses and not a video of them creating hearts.
That was the planned part, but I dont think the kids were directed in every moved they made. We saw some natural siblings interacting. Including Josephine really being in shock for a second that the boys did so well.

 

[Hans-Rickard]

Social media will always be difficult and a thin line between reality and fiction…

Just look at Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok etc… Staged posts, often with som AI, has become the norm now… Especially if you have or want a lot of followers…

Completely unfiltered video-posts, is hard to find nowdays…

We can like it or hate it but it is the reality of our time and not just for the Danish RF…

 

[Archduchess Zelia]

It seems Nina has gotten the critic that is comming that the royal family is too pre-edited, so now she wants everyone to belive this of how teenagers spend their advent time when they Get to choose all by them self.

https://ekstrabladet.dk/underholdning/kongelige/danskekongelige/kommentator-langer-ud-efter-kongehuset-det-kammer-helt-over/11048877

Jakob Steen Olsen: Det ser måske sødt og harmløst ud – men faren lurer lige under det perfekte peberkagehus

Analyse. Den kongelige julevideo er sød og harmløs, men når Kongehuset arrangerer situationer for at gå viralt, risikerer de at skabe fiktion.

www.berlingske.dk

They all love Margrethe and Frederik video.

What a truly strange thing to say.

Nowhere did Nina Munch-Perrin claim that either of those videos captured candid moments. She was asked about the videos – which were immensely popular – and revealed that the kids themselves came up with the subject of their video after it was suggested to them that they braided Christmas hearts. Which, arguably, is more genuine than being sat down to comply with someone else's prompt

This modus operandi is no different than what most other royal families do. Victoria and Daniel have literally done a Christmas video with their children every year – this year being Estelle and Oscar cooking Christmas dishes. It's a way of letting people see the kids – cut videos like that and birthday portraits and the same detractors will cry about not seeing the kids – but still doing it on their own terms.

When linking op-ed's by the likes of Kim Bach and Jacob Steen Olsen, it's a bit careless not to note that Bach is a staunch anti-monarchist and Steen Olsen (like Jacob Heinel Jensen) belong to a crowd of tabloid journalists desperately critical of everything Frederik, Mary and QMII do. (Funny enough both Jakobs are chummy with Joachim and Marie which is predictably reflected in their gleeful coverage of them and their family – talk about inauthenticity)

 

[Annine]

Yes they have critical articles, not everything he write I would say. A paper like Berlingske cant really go all Billedbladet-lige-i-hjertet with all their articles?

I think it is still a relevant debate, should the head of state become a Instagram filtrered person, one where everything has gone trough the communications Department before it gets out to the public, and never be available for proper press that asks follow up questions? Certainly it seems it is going this way in many monarchies now, more and more, I think it is a pitty.

 

[BJB]

How is this, besides the medium Instagram, different to before? Thirty years ago, everything official would still go through the communications department (or however it was called then).

Realistically, would you just have got less from the royal family because there were no good ways to give any kind of glimpse, besides maybe some released press photos of Christmas prep?

 

[Muhler]

I think we also need to consider that for most teenagers today being in front of a camera/being filmed, recording day-to-day activities is a normal thing. Their friends do it, they probably do it themselves in some way. We have seen Christian and Alexia performing to a song. So for teenagers coming up with an idea and enacting it in one take in front of a camera, seems plausible to me.

 

[maria-olivia]

Prince Joachim and Princess Marie already left . Sad not a family picture .

 

[tommy100]

I'm always a little amazed they come over for the NY dinner to be honest. Not that I don't think they shouldn't. I guess if they have been in Europe for Christmas its a stop off on the way home, but if they come over just for it then its a lot for a short time.
I imagine school starts again soon for the children so hanging around isn't an option.

 

[Princess_Eleanor]

Personally, I love that the Scandinavian monarchies go all out for Christmas, showing us decorations and Christmas dishes. The kids are not actors because they are filmed making gingerbread houses or Christmas dishes. It's cute. Obviously it's planned beforehand what they're going to do, but they still come across as natural in the videos.