Surprise! It Turns Out That 8 Netflix Christmas Movies Are Connected — Here's How

Netflix is giving Hallmark a run for their money with a ton of cute original Christmas movies, but did you know they're all connected? That's right — Netflix is getting in on the connected-universes craze with their very own Netflix Christmas movie shared universe! Here's exactly how all of your favourites fit together.

There are two different overarching ways that these movies are connected: on-screen cameos and full-fledged name-dropping. The former category is how it all began. In the 2018 movie The Holiday Calendar, the creative needed to show a movie playing on a screen within the movie itself. "It felt like a natural fit to show one of our other films available on Netflix," said Amanda Phillips Atkins, EVP at production company MPCA. As a result, a scene from 2017's The Christmas Inheritance pops up on a TV. The Christmas Inheritance also shows up on a TV in The Princess Switch, which also includes a cameo from A Christmas Prince. Holiday in the Wild also shows up on a TV screen in The Knight Before Christmas.

Aside from these fun little Easter eggs, there are a handful of references that actually imply some of these movies exist fully in the same universe. The Knight Before Christmas includes a line in which one character tells her daughter, "Your grandma and grandpa picked this up on their trip to Aldovia" — proving that the kingdom featured in A Christmas Prince is apparently a real place in this movie's world. Then, a map seen in A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby shows that one of Aldovia's nearby neighbouring countries is Belgravia — that is, the country from The Princess Switch.

With more Christmas originals being added every year (including an upcoming sequel to The Princess Switch), we bet there will be even more fun connections to come! For now, you can check out the handy graphic ahead to see every connection between Netflix Christmas movies so far.