As Christmas gets closer, it’s more important than ever that families band together and enjoy the traditions of the season. And if that involves a little sabotage during a gingerbread house decorating competition between siblings, who’s to stop it?
The Danish royal family has shared a fun short video to their social media channels of Crown Prince Christian, Princess Isabella, Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine deciding to undertake a gingerbread house decorating competition at their home in Frederik VIII’s Palace at Amalienborg Palace.
“Are you ready for a little challenge?” Crown Prince Christian asks his younger siblings. The heir to the throne, 20, then takes full charge and some advantage in the contest.
The four children of King Frederik and Queen Mary divided into teams of two, boys versus girls, and raced to decorate their gingerbread houses.
The future king and his younger brother , 14 ear old Vincent, quickly lose track of the challenge—their icing never manages to seal any pieces of the gingerbread house together—and they end up playing with their gingerbread instead.
Princess Isabella, 18, and Princess Josephine, 14,meanwhile, are shown painstakingly icing their gingerbread house, adding décor and even building a gingerbread snowman for the lawn.
It’s then that Crown Prince Christian plays the clown and strikes for the advantage. Unbeknownst to the princesses, their brothers have pulled a completed—and quite clearly professionally decorated—gingerbread house out from a hiding space and present it as their own once the timer runs out.
“Why is theirs 10 times prettier!” Princess Isabella exclaims. When the ladies walk over to the other side of the kitchen, they quickly spot something under the counter that gives away the boys’ cheating.
Crown Prince Christian tries to block his sisters from grabbing their initial gingerbread house, but then he shows it—all of the pieces laying flat on the tray—and he jokes: “That’s what me and Vincent got in the first five minutes until we gave up.”
The Danish roayl family previously announced that King Frederik, Queen Mary, and their children will spend Christmas at Amalienborg with Queen Margrethe. They will attend church services in the Vor Frue Kirke on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
King Frederik will also give his annual New Year’s Eve speech from Frederik VIII’s Palace.
