A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and the Romance of Coming Together at Christmas
The moral case for coming together across families for Christmas.
People fall in love with Christmas all the time.
It starts when you're a kid and it's much easier to fall in love when you're younger. You're showered with presents by the people around you. Other people being generous to you is easy to fall in love with really quickly. As you become a teenager, you have to work harder to fall in love with Christmas. Many people find a way to love it through the time you spend with people at Christmas. The way you all gather together in a group for that one or two days around the holidays. Usually on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. When you feel the amount of love in that room or house or wherever you celebrate Christmas in, it's like a love story. You learn to fall in love with that feeling in all kinds of ways.
Becoming an adult means looking for people to fall in love with both you and your Christmas traditions. Someone who can actually enjoy the things you do and the ideas you have about how to celebrate Christmas. If you're lucky, they don't just want to see you for that one time during Christmas but your whole family more than once. Enough that they want to come back over and over again and celebrate Christmas the rest of your life. Find a way to keep the love going forever if you can manage it. Perhaps the best way to do this is for you to get married. To make a lasting, ongoing commitment to another person and their traditions.
Although when you make a commitment to someone else, it's not just about your traditions and the things that your family does. It's about the other person's traditions as well. The way they do things and how they want to celebrate things. So when you bring two families together, you have to learn to make things work between the two. No matter how much you might want it to be all about you and your family traditions, it can't be anymore. This is extremely hard to do though because you've been doing so many of these things for so long on your own that letting go of some in favour of others is more difficult than you might want it to be.
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding is very much about the coming together of two traditions of Christmas. Amber Moore, as played brilliantly by Rose McIver, has fallen in love at Christmas. More importantly she has found someone who she wants to spend every Christmas with, King Richard Charlton, as played fantastically by Ben Lamb. They have made a commitment to each other and to each other's Christmas traditions. The problem is that both families have their traditions and their ideas of what coming together as a family means. Especially with regards to actually getting married. So they have to find a way to make it all work together without really hurting each other.
It's very much like a wedding.
Do yourself a favour and explore the romance of Christmas by checking out A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding as soon as you can.
You can watch A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding on Netflix.