from
Kronborg Castle at the occasion of the birth of Prince Vincent and Princess Josephine on 8 January 2011 Vincent was born on 8 January 2011 at
Rigshospitalet, the
Copenhagen University Hospital, in
Copenhagen, at 10:30 am local time, 26 minutes before his twin sister. Shortly after the birth, while speaking to the press, the Crown Prince joked about calling his newborn son Elvis, as the twins share a birthday with
Elvis Presley. At noon on 8 January, a
21-gun salute was fired from the Sixtus Battery at
Holmen Naval Base in the
Port of Copenhagen and from
Kronborg Castle in
Elsinore in
North Zealand to mark the arrival of the royal children. Vincent and his sister were baptised by the royal
confessor, the
Bishop of Copenhagen Erik Norman Svendsen, on 14 April at the
Church of Holmen in central
Copenhagen. The twins were baptised at the
royal baptismal font which has been used for the baptism of royal children in Denmark since 1671. Prince Vincent wore the
royal christening gown which was made for his great-great-grandfather,
King Christian X, in 1870, while his sister wore a gown found among Queen Ingrid's belongings. His name was announced as Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander. His third name, Minik, is
Greenlandic and means "earwax". His godparents are his maternal uncle, John Stuart Donaldson; his father's first cousin, the
Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (then the Hereditary Prince); his mother's
lady-in-waiting, Caroline Heering; and friends of his parents, the
King of Spain (then the Prince of Asturias),
Count Michael Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille and Baroness Helle Reedtz-Thott. In 2009, the Danish constitution was
altered, granting
absolute primogeniture to the Danish throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession. Under the old system of
male-preference primogeniture, Vincent would have displaced his elder sister Isabella in the line of succession; with the new law, he comes directly after her instead. On 15 August 2017, Vincent and his younger twin sister started school at Tranegårdsskolen in
Gentofte – the same public school as their elder siblings. Both siblings were confirmed on 18 April 2026. ==Titles, styles, and honours==