Kongehusets digitale julekalender 2021.
Dansk
Det siges, at julen er hjerternes (og bestemt også nissernes) fest. Men efter en lang og dramatisk julerejse i sporene på de danske konger og dronninger gennem tiden er det ikke julefest og risengrød, som Nissefar tænker på lige nu. Det er i stedet for søvn. Energien er nemlig helt brugt op, og den lille nisse må erkende, at det ikke bliver i år, at han får spredt julestemning på de kongelige slotte, som han ellers plejer at gøre i december måned.
Nissefar ser derfor sit snit til at begynde den 11 måneder lange nissesøvn allerede i dag. For hvorfor vente til i morgen, når nu Juleenglen og julestemningen er borte? Men Nissemor slår i bordet. Det kan der ikke blive tale om, og hun minder sin mand om, at han stadig mangler at finde spor efter den nulevende regent i Kongerækken.
”Dro.. Droo. Dronningen!” stammer Nissefar, der lige havde troet, at han var færdig med julerejsen. ”Men Dronningen kender jeg jo alt til” får han fremstammet, alt imens han forsøger at følge i hælene på Nissemor, der suser gennem Amalienborg. Nissemor vil nemlig vise Nissefar en lille bog, der er opbevaret i Kongehusets arkiver og som måske kan hjælpe ham med at fuldende sin julerejse gennem Kongerækken. Bogen er tegnet og lavet af den femårige Prinsesse Margrethe i 1945, og bogen blev givet som en julegave til Prinsessens mor, den daværende Kronprinsesse Ingrid. ”Glædelig jul til mor fra Daisy” står der på den første side. Nisserne bladrer ivrigt og finder den ene tegning efter den anden.
Dengang vidste ingen, at den lille Prinsesse en dag skulle blive landets Dronning og sidde på tronen som den indtil videre næstlængste i Danmarkshistorien. Men sådan gik det, og om bare tre uger har Prinsessen – som i dag er Hendes Majestæt Dronningen – 50-års Regeringsjubilæum. Bagerst i Prinsesse Margrethes bog finder Nissefar en tegning af et lille juletræ. Tegningen minder ham om et træ, der hvert år juleaften bliver sat op på loftet på Amalienborg. Måske har juleenglen – og Dronningen – en finger med i spillet, og måske bliver det alligevel en god juleaften.
English
It’s said that Christmas is the festival of hearts (and certainly also of elves). But, after a long and dramatic Christmas journey in the footsteps of the Danish kings and queens throughout the ages, it’s not Christmas celebrations and rice porridge that Elf Father is thinking about right now. Instead, it’s about sleep. The fact is that his energy is completely used up, and the little elf must admit that he will not get to spread Christmas cheer at the royal palaces this year like he otherwise is used to doing in December.
Therefore, Elf Father sees his chance to begin the 11-month-long elf-slumber as soon as today. Because why wait until tomorrow, now when the Christmas Angel and Christmas spirit are gone? But Elf Mother bangs on the table. There can be no talk of that, and she reminds her husband that he still has to find leads about the current sovereign in the Royal Lineage.
“Que…Quee…The Queen!” stutters Elf Father, who had believed he was done with the Christmas journey. “But I know everything about The Queen,” he blurts out, all the while trying to keep up on the heels of Elf Mother, who’s whizzing through Amalienborg. That’s because Elf Mother wants to show Elf Father a little book that’s filed in the archives and that perhaps can help him complete his Christmas journey through the Royal Lineage. The book was drawn and made by the five-year-old Princess Margrethe in 1945, and it was given as a Christmas present to the Princess’s mother, the then-Crown Princess Ingrid. “Merry Christmas to mom from Daisy,” it reads on the first page. The elves eagerly turn the pages, finding one drawing after another.
Back then, no one knew that the little Princess would one day become the country’s Queen and sit on the throne as the second-longest occupant so far in Denmark’s history. But that’s how it went, and, in just three weeks, the Princess – who, today, is Her Majesty The Queen – marks the 50th anniversary of her reign. In the back part of Princess Margrethe’s book, Elf Father finds a drawing of a small Christmas tree. The drawing reminds him of a tree that’s set up in the attic at Amalienborg every year on Christmas Eve. Perhaps the Christmas Angel – and The Queen – have something to do with it, and perhaps there will be a good Christmas Eve after all.