Princes grow up here and in Denmark. This Sunday, Christian, the first-born of the heirs Federico and María, turns 18, as will Leonor de Borbón in fifteen days. Their lives will intersect at some point and by age they will have to reign during the same period, but between the two young people there is still a difference: Leonor is the daughter of a king and, for the moment, Christian is the son of a crown prince.
Christian from Denmark came into the world on October 15, 2005, being the first child of the crown princes Frederick and Mary, who had married in Copenhagen on May 14, 2004, just the week before they did so, in Madrid, Felipe de Borbón and Letizia Ortiz. The boy became second in the order of succession, a position he still holds, since, unlike the previous kings of Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, who abdicated in favor of their sons, Queen Margaret has stated on repeated occasions that his intention is to wait for the natural order.
Its second position is also that of its social relevance. Curiously, the young man will be, along with William of Wales, king among queens when he comes to the throne, since his contemporaries are Eleanor of Bourbon, Isabel of Belgium, Amalia of the Netherlands, Ingrid of Denmark and the veteran Victoria of Sweden. All of them, including the Norwegian, although she is also the heir’s heir, have acquired great prominence with their coming of age. That has not been the case of Christian, who is not even the best-known grandson of the Danish sovereign, a role that is awarded to Nicolás de Monpezat, the handsome son of Prince Joachim and his ex-wife Alexandra Mandey, who acts as a model and influencer. .
Christian is a Danish boy in the sense that, like his compatriots, he is discreet, a lover of sea sports and, in his case, also hunting. He has three siblings, Isabel (2007) and the twins Vicente and Josefina (2011), with whom he now often appeared at public events. Yesterday, for the first time, Christian starred in a solo act at the headquarters of the Council of State before whose members and in the presence of his grandmother, parents and siblings, he committed to complying with and enforcing the Constitution and the rest of the laws. Danish. It was his particular oath upon his coming of age, which empowered him in the event that if his grandmother and his father were missing, he could already be legally proclaimed king or exercise the regency if necessary.
In recent weeks, Prince Christian, accompanied by his father, the current heir, has traveled throughout the country to learn about Danish institutions. The prince, who still has military training pending, studied primary school in public schools, and went on to attend secondary school at the elitist private boarding school Herlufsholm Skole, a center that he had to leave after cases of harassment and sexual abuse were reported.
Passing through this school is the only shadow that has touched the first-born of Federico and María, that and being involved in an alleged romance with Chiara de Borbón-Two Sicilies. The girl’s mother, Camila Crociani, willing to promote her Chiara and her sister Carolina, was in charge of propagating the species of a romance between Christian and Chiara, delighted that her daughter could become queen, until her delusions of greatness got out of hand and the Danish court itself suggested that the young woman deny it. It remains to be seen if the Bourbon-Two Sicilies are among the guests at the dinner that Queen Margaret is offering tonight in honor of her grandson, which will be attended by the Danish royal family, including the deceased Joachim, Marie and children (whom the queen removed the title of princes), the members of the Nordic royal houses, as well as young people representing all the municipalities of Denmark as well as Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
