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It's become a tradition on the penultimate day of the Advent Calendar to share with you how the Swedish Royal Family is getting on. Since 2012, when Crown Princess Estelle was born, there has been an annual video showing Estelle, her parents Victoria (who will be Queen one day soon) and Daniel, and lately her little brother Oscar, doing some Swedish Christmas crafts. Here's this year's candlemaking, at an old house in the Skansen in Stockholm, with a flashback to 1980 when Victoria did the same thing with her parents.   Hard to believe it's 11 years since you first saw Estelle on the Advent Calender. Here once again is her first ever Christmas video! And for four more years of classic Estelle and Oscar action, revisit our 2017 page: https://adamcreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/19th-december-2017.html

For the last 11 years of the Advent Calendar, we have celebrated with the Swedish Royal Family, watching Princess Estelle (and more recently her brother Prince Oscar) growing up. The children of Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel, they are always photogenic and make marvellous Christmas videos.    They also dressed up for Lucia, a Swedish festival of lights. Estelle is now 11 and Oscar is 7. God Jul!

The UK has once again gon Scandi-mad, with loads of articles about how to have a hygge  Christmas. One tradition we love is the feast of Lucia ( last featured in 2017 ) with candles and processions and Italian songs. Our friends at LondonSwedes had organised several Lucia services/concerts across the UK and all of them were sold out. This is from the London one: As you can see they have got the whole candle-headdress-fire-risk thing going on. Here's a hamster dressed up for Lucia: And finally here's friend of the Advent Calendar, Sweden's Princess Estelle and her brother Prince Oscar, with their official Christmas photo, alongside a similar photo of her mother and uncle, released yesterday on Lucia:

Our favourite royal family is still the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, husband Daniel, and their adorable children Princess Estelle (7) and Prince Oscar (3) Every year they appear in a Christmas video, and for 2019 they visited the Royal Church and were told the Christmas story. We hope you enjoy watching it too! Here's a flashback to 2014, when Estelle was only 2!

It wouldn't be Christmas without a visit to the Swedish Royal Court, where Prinsessen Estelle and her little brother Prins Oscar are here to wish you "God Jul" in a photo taken by their mother, Victoria. Here's this year's video: You can see all their previous seasonal shenanigans here .

We've been waiting patiently for the annual video from the Swedish Royal family, because it'll show us the latest from Princess Estelle and her tiny brother Prince Oscar. Here they are being typically Swedish again. So sweet! And if your heart can bear to be warmed even more, here are all the great previous ones: 2016: 2015: 2014: 2013:

Here's just the thing to wash away the stress and nastiness of modern life. It's Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland, and her parents Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel, from the Swedish Royal family. Every Christmas, they release an official video and they are all so adorable. Here's 2013: