Some details about what Joachim said about himself in the docu I wrote about yesterday.
It seems clear that there are a number of topics, that were not up for discussion. Like the title-crisis and Joachim's stroke as well as QMII's abdication.
Prins Joachim og daværende kronprins Frederik slap heldigvis fra den voldsomme ulykke i 1988 med livet i behold.
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Back in 1988 in France, he and Frederik and a couple of friends were involved in a car crash and it could have ended very tragically. QMII was hopping mad and had J&F paraded in front of the press and the two lads didn't look too proud of themselves.
"I was 19, my brother was 20. Two friends in the car. A car approached in the blind angle and when I notice it it's too late to hit the brakes, and the the slide-out begins (or perhaps drifting, in more modern terms).
I realized that the accident is inevitable, so I let go of the steering wheel and thought: Come what may. Then the roll begins. We are weightless and then we land on the roof.
It was a near-death experience. When the car falls down I sense I touch something. The first thing on my mind is that it's the glass-roof, but no, that's already open. It was just dirt and twigs. My passenger is too quiet than he ought to be, so I hit him, gets a reaction. Good, there is life."
He notice that his brother and the other passenger are no longer in the car.
"My brother is standing at the edge of the river and tends to his sore shoulder. First reaction is: Everybody is breathing."
His next thought was that the situation needed to get under control.
"We have postcards in the card, possessions, number plates, all that, collect it, keep it on me. A prince and a monarch (surely he means future monarch) in the car. Nothing in this car is anyone's business, because this might become very interesting."
Peter Heering, who was one of the passengers tells his version here:
Læs mere her.
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(Ups! I hit post, but there is actually more to come, check back later).
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Joachim also talks about loneliness. Something he first got to experience personally after the divorce from Alexandra.
Prinsen sætter nu nye ord på, hvordan han oplevede skilsmissen fra grevinde Alexandra.
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"It wasn't loneliness as in alone-alone. It was the loneliness that I had done something that was definitive. Necessary. The first time since forever within my family and also something that would shock a heck of a lot of people.
It was divorce. There I stood in the strange loneliness that I was measured on everything as if it had never been done before."
Q: Did he feel guilt in regards to the divorce?
"Yes, towards everything and everybody. The loneliness, that way of feeling loneliness, that affected me a lot."
Q: Was it a kind of depression?
"It was of course that. In some form. The depression from failing."
(Note: This is not a 100 % literal translation. In order to make this easier to read and understand I have cut corners here and there and simplified things, because spoken Danish, especially if the person is thinking while talking, is of course different from written Danish. And Joachim has his speech-style that is not always simple to translate.)
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Prins Joachim fortæller om både sine børn og sin kone i ny dokumentar.
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What is Joachim afraid of?
"That I cannot protect mine." (His family. See why I don't translate 100 %).
"The protection is physical until they are big enough. And when they are big enough it changes to counseling, sometime with raised index-fingers and you clear the path, so they can't do anything else." (Minimize the risk of them falling astray.)
But he does appreciate that his children dare speak up against him.
"There where I look at my oldest, there where I stand and say: How wonderful that someone dare speak up against me, laugh with me and for me."
The author who is co-hosting the film, can't help feeling a little sorry for Joachim's family having to endure historical lectures. How does Marie handle that? No problem.
"She can simply put me in my place. She's probably the only person who can see straight through so and so many filters and fogs."
Gotta stop now. More later. - Well, hopefully tomorrow.
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