In royal baptism: what we know and what rumors say

Thus, the new royal baby Archie was baptized in the Church of England.

It's after the baptismal photos published by the Susbad to mark the great, super-secret day of their son. If you take a closer look, you can simply discern the dusting of ginger streaks on his little bald paste. Naww.

So, Archie could be a ginger like his father, it's a new thing we've learned since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced that they would keep Archie's baptismal confidential, at great Damnation of the public in love with the king. They do not seem to be fed up with BB SX, but we still do not know who the godfathers are, why they keep it secret, or why the child even needs sponsors.

So without further ado, here is everything we know about Baby Archie Harrison, the secret, the supreme secret, the royal baptism:

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WHY SO SECRETIVE?

Some of the fury around Susbad "choosing" to have a private baptism may have been relayed by the British media, who have traced a blame line between their £ 2.5 million Frogmore Cottage renovations (4 , NZ $ 72) from taxpayers' money, and Joe and Joanne public being left off the guest list.

For some reason, people seemed to think that paying the fee was enough to buy them a ticket for the city's holiest game, but it's not and never was. As Marlene Koenig, expert of the royals says Time magazine, "All baptisms are private", even the guest list is usually private. We never expected the service to be broadcast or the list of guests published. Only the names of godparents are generally communicated to the public.

In addition, it was not really private after all since Harry and Megs have already shared two official pictures (that 's how we know Archie is a redhead) and I'm sure he' s not. other details of the event, including the fact that there were only 25 people at the ceremony and that the service was probably a traditional service of the Church of England.

GODPARENTS SECRET?

While it's unusual to keep this private formal role, you can hardly blame anyone who has accepted the job of wanting to stay out of the light of the fire. They would undoubtedly be subject to scrutiny by the press and the public.

What we know about them is that they are "real friends" of the couple and that they and the parents – especially Harry, according to L & # 39; Express – chose to keep their identity on the bottom. We also know that they must have been baptized and confirmed in faith, which greatly limits the list of likely candidates.

Almost every publication on the planet has speculated on the most likely choices for godparents. George and Amal Clooney are favorites, as is Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Harry's nurse.

Serena Williams was one of Godmum's favorite people, but we can now get her off the list. Harper's Bazaar indicated that she was not at baptism due to "commitments at work" – she is currently competing at Wimbledon and played a singles match against Julia Gorges and a doubles match mixed with the British Andy Murray.

"Meghan understands the work," said Williams.

My choice is that the couple's choice is actually more obvious than any of these names: Harry's aunts, Princess Diana's sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes, have appeared in the official portrait of the baptism held behind the couple while they were holding Archie. This is the place traditionally reserved for godfathers and godmothers.

Harper's Bazaar Fellowes was also one of the first to meet Archie after his birth in May.

WHAT IS A GODPARENT IN ANY WAY?

Most people think that godparents are substitute adults in the life of a child, but in the Anglican Church, as in other branches of the Christian faith, godparents and godmothers have a specific role to play.

Also known as sponsors – because they are sponsoring this child in the church – they are supposed to testify to this baptism, teach them to practice faith, pray and behave at the same time. church, and to be spiritual mentors for all their lives, hence the need for them to be baptized.

As a somewhat indifferent godfather, I can not help but think that I fell to work. In Catholic and Catholic churches, it is a bit serious. according to Canons of the Anglican Church, The officiating priest – in this case the highest priest of the Church, just behind the queen herself, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby – can deny a person the role which is his if he does not fulfill certain criteria.

THE PRIVATE CHAPEL IS REALLY PRIVATE

It is in the small Windsor chapel that the Queen comes to commune with her one and only boss, God himself. As a leader of the Anglican Church, you could technically think of him as his boss's office. Thus, even if she could not attend the baptism, she should have given him permission to use the chapel.

The chapel is on the opposite side of the "parish" of St. George's Chapel Castle, where Harry and Meghan were married, in what is called the Upper Hall.

What we do know is that it was moved from its original location in the castle after the 1992 fire that ravaged the whole wing. .

The original chapel is now an official entryway for state guests, but it gives an idea of ​​the scale and decoration of the new chapel.

according to The sun, "Only a handful of people were allowed inside the chapel", or to sit on its 200-year-old red and golden chairs. Harry was baptized in the original private chapel, adding to the feeling of Princess Diana who dominated the Archie ceremony.

CEREMONY

Archie wore the same baptismal dress as his cousins ​​George, Charlotte and Louie in their big days: a replica of the dress in which the children of Queen Victoria were baptized.

The Lily Font, commanded by Queen Victoria and baptizing all her children, was brought from the Tower of London for the ceremony.

It was filled with Jordan water, where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist according to the Gospels.

So you can see that it was not as secret or private as people imagined it.