Prince Joachim: News and Pictures

[lasu]

From www.globeandmail.com, Saturday 9 Oct 2004

Denmark’s pinstriped ‘party Prince’ - Part II
by Sarah Hampson


The media’s handling of monarchy is a gloves-off approach in Europe. What’s it like to live with that level of scrutiny?



“How to put it?” he says, uncrossing his leg and shifting in his seat. “It’s a bit of the system of scratching each other’s backs.” he smiles his wry smile. “If you play your cards right, if you behave, the balance between the press and public appearance and being a public figure can be maintained in harmony.”



Sounds like palace-speak to me. Isn’t harmony hard to achieve when the press, generally, do not live by a moral code?



“Exactly,” he says. “There are the trespassing issues, like how far can they go, how far will you accept they go, and how far should they know not to go?”



Tabloids in Denmark, the smallest Nordic country with a population of only 5 million and the oldest monarchy in Europe, have been publishing photographs of him from years ago, in bars, and suggesting they are current.



“Well, they don’t even suggest. They just print,” he says with a sigh. “In all honesty, whenever they invent stories or print outright likes or just rumours, what is there to do? Our attitude is that things you cannot control or deny you shouldn’t talk about. Because, if you started commenting on one issue, then the day that they hit the bull’s-eye, how will you comment then?”



I feel like a tabloid wolf in the sheep’s clothing of a quality broadsheet. He must have to be tough, I offer kindly.



“Honestly, it’s more difficult for, say a show-business or sports person who enters the stage at some point in their lives and suddenly realized that this is tough. If you have grown up with it from before you were aware of it, it’s probably easier because you started seeing it and feeling it from the sidelines.”



When he is not on official duty, which occupies a third of his time, he farms arable land with “mainstay crops,” he says. Partly, the importance of SuperDanish is to show that Denmark is “not just about Danish pastry,” he says, offering a little laugh. “It’s not just furniture or Bang & Olufsen or Lego or whatever you perceive as being typically Danish. We are a small country but we are not lost,” he says adding that both Denmark, which borders on Germany, and Canada share the challenge of having “heavyweight neighbours to the south.”



His country is also a good place to be a prince, he points out. He works hard to stay in touch with his people, he says. How?



“Read the papers!” he responds, laughing generously at his own joke. But then he turns serious again. “Denmark is, that God for that, a very down-to-earth country. Basically, all my family can walk the streets of Copenhagen or any place in Denmark. I will be recognized but here won’t be a big fuss. People probably won’t even turn heads.”



Why? “I think it’s a respect,” he says, giving me a calm knowing smile that tells me, very clearly but silently, that our little chat may have gone a little too far.

[Alexandria]

Thanks for the article lasu. I read it in the paper and after having met him, you really do get a sense of Joachim's personality from this snippet -- even if Joachim is very reserved and controlling in what information he dispenses to the press.

[hrhcp]

Originally Posted by krone1

Hi
They all smoke

I thought I read lately that Frederick had quit.

[rchainho]

http://www.quemedices.wanadoo.es/carticulos/49998.html


Así se emborracha el príncipe Joaquín

Hace unos años, en una visita a Chipre, el hermano de Federico de Dinamarca celebró una gran fiesta en la que no paró de beber


El Príncipe de Dinamarca no paró de beber cócteles y cerveza durante su visita al campamento danés de Chipre. Una auténtica noche de excesos...


La imagen pública del príncipe Joaquín de Dinamarca, de 35 años, se desmorona por momentos.

Joaquín de Dinamarca no dejó ni una sola jarra llena de bebida y acabó por los suelos.


A pesar de su ruptura matrimonial, Joaquín y Alexandra charlaron amigablemente en la ceremonia de apertura del Parlamento danés el martes pasado.


Se bañó en calzoncillos

Después de que hace tres semanas se separase de la princesa Alexandra, tras nueve años casados, comienzan a salir imágenes que hacen creíbles los rumores que apuntan a que su matrimonio fracasó por sus problemas con el alcohol.

Hace unos años, ya casado, el príncipe protagonizó estas bochornosas imágenes durante una visita a la base militar danesa en Chipre.

Allí, junto a varios soldados, tomó mucha cerveza y varios cócteles y ofreció todo un espectáculo: bailó, se bañó en calzoncillos, se arrastró por el suelo y hasta perdió el equilibrio en varias ocasiones.

[bigheadshirmp]

can u translate it into english?

thankz in advance

[KikkiB]

I use this website www.freetranslation.com when I need to translate texts from Spanish to English (does translate a variety of other languages i.e. Norwegian, French, German). Just cut and paste, and push free translation. Not perfect, but you get the essence of the text.

[julial]

Thus the prince gets drunk Joaquín

Some years ago, in a visit to Cyprus, the brother of Federico of Denmark celebrated a great festival in which he did not stop to drink

The Prince of Denmark did not stop to drink cócteles and beer during his visit al danish camp of Cyprus. An authentic night of excesses..

The public image of the prince Joaquín of Denmark, of 35 years, decays for moments.

Joaquín of Denmark did not leave neither full a single jug of beverage and finished for the floors.

In spite of its marital break, Joaquín and Alexandra chatted friendly in the ceremony of opening of the Tuesday passed danish Parliament.

Bathed in shorts

After three weeks ago was separated of the princess Alexandra, after nine married years, begin to leave images that do credible the rumors that aim at that its marriage failed for its problems with the alcohol.

Some years ago, already married, the prince starred in these bochornosas images during a visit to the danish military base in Cyprus.

There, next to various soldiers, took a lot of beer and various cócteles and offered all a spectacle: danced, bathed in shorts, was dragged for the floor and until lost the equilibrium in several occasions.

[Danielle]

Originally Posted by mgrant

While Prince Joachim was frolicking in the fields Princess Alexandra was opening the LEV annual national meeting in Sonderborg accompanied by her Lady In Waiting Christine Lyng (third photo)...........

I read 'frolicking in the fields' and I was thinking 'what on earth is Joachim doing'? I then read some posts before and realised what was going on. Phew!!! :p

[Alexandria]

Here go the rumour mills ...

Danish Magazin Kig Ind

Copenhagen, Denmark - The danish magazin Kig Ind writes today that Prince Joachim has a new girlfriend named Ulrika in Sweden. Photo: Niels Henrik Dam

Source: Colourpress

[Chatleen]

Originally Posted by Alexandria

he danish magazin Kig Ind writes today that Prince Joachim has a new girlfriend named Ulrika in Sweden. Photo: Niels Henrik Dam

I tend to get suspicious, when they aren't able to even come up with a blurred picture of the girl

[Dennism]

Boy, that Fröken Jonsson gets around. Just kidding. I´m glad to see she has settled down...finally.

[paulette]

The tabloids everywhere you go around the world never print all the time correct news. They just make stories to attract buyers and gain money on it.

They can't even show a picture of the girl who is believed to be the new girlfriend of Prince Joachim. Only the Prince's face is there. And besides, there are a lot of Ulrika's even in Denmark.

[pdas1201]

Some pics of Joachim with Nikolai and Felix at a farm..

I just love Felix, he is sooooooooooooooo cute. Every time I see him, I just wanna go and pull his chubby cheeks..

here is the caption that goes along with the pics, maybe some who speaks Danish can translate it.

Felix og Nicolaj var med farmand prins Joachim ude og kigge på heste ved DM i pløjning - th. ses socialminister Eva Kjer Hansen. 30 af Danmarks bedste pløjere dystede om titlen, på arealer beliggende lige nord for prins Joachims slot Schackenborg. Deltagerne dyster også om retten til at præsentere de danske farver ved de Nordiske Mesterskaber, Europamesterskabet og Verdensmesterskabet.

[pdas1201]

some more pics of Joachim, Nikolai and Felix (cutey pie) from the ploughing championship for young farmers in the fields of Schackenborg Palace

[pdas1201]

and some more....

[MarieLouise]

The articel says that Joaghim according to the magazine Se og Hoer is dating a 29 year old sweedish woman. She used to an alcoholic.

She has denied the rumors in an email to Ekstrabladet, stating that she doesn't have anything to do with Joachim and that the rumours aren't true at all.

My guess is that Se and Hoer once again has run a story, that has no truth in it, but sells copies, just like it was the case with Marys "pregnancy", but judge for yourself.

[Genevieve]

What will the reaction in Denmark be when Joachim does step out in public with a serious girlfriend?

I know that Alexandra is very well liked in Denmark, and that the divorce came as a very big surprise to most people.

So when Joachim starts dating someone seriously, will Alexandra sort of have a Diana matyr complexion in that any other woman Joachim dates will never be as good as Alexandra is or was?

It seems to me that it will be easier for Alexandra's new boyfriend to gain public acceptance than Joachim's new girlfriend. The media and most people on message boards seem to blame Joachim for the breakup of the marriage (even if it is not true) so maybe his starting a new life will be harder than Alexandra trying to start a new life as people seem to want her to be happy 'finally' after all the 'hardships' Joachim put her through. (I don't necessarily believe this is the case, but this is how it is very much portrayed in the media I've seen and read.)

[julial]

How hard can it be?

Afterall, All Alex needed to worry about was Joachim looking the other way.
No need to earn living, plenty of nunnies, many people supporting her and look ing up to her due to her title via marriage. Well, I do not think her life was anywhere closer to hardship.