First, he admitted that he had pressured his son – prince Nikolai – a (nsf), which failed.
Now take prince Joachim a step further and advises against direct his children to be like himself.
“They must, for god’s sake don’t be like daddy. It mønsterbrud, I wish – that I either do not even have dared to take the former or execute early enough – it should not be prevented from doing them. Nothing is prohibited.”
so says the 50-year-old prince, when he’s in Wednesday’s episode of his documentary ‘Prince Joachim tells’ share thoughts on raising children with the viewers.
the Words fall, while prince Joachim has a profound conversation with mystery writer and doctor Steffen Jacobsen, who himself has an impressive mønsterbryder-past.
As a child, his parents divorced, then his mother died, after which he ended up in a petty criminal career. Right up until he was saved by the SU and the opportunity to take a training.
And Steffen Jacobsen is apparently not afraid to call a spade a spade. He notes that the manuscript of Joachim’s life was ‘pre-written’:
“You are at least as præprogrammeret, as I was – maybe even more,” he says to prince Joachim, who grabs the ball and sharing the deeper thoughts about his life:
“When you don’t ask questions, then you may well end up being a machine, and then at one time or another, so you come into one or another strange kaleidoscope and see some images and find that it is actually you, describe,” says the prince, and follows up with a selvransagende questions:
“I Have a ‘comfortzone’, which I never questioned – and can I do anything more.”
In Holiganbet the documentary suggests, prince Joachim, also, it was a big upheaval for him to have to be a farmer, and that he all the time knew that there would be an ‘end date’ for farm life.
“I have since been various købebaner through and held firm – perhaps too long – perhaps out of misguided duty and have had to acknowledge also the defeat – and is probably been wiser of them,” says the prince.
One of the things he has learned, perhaps, that he should not press his children. After that prince Nikolai in the fall of 2018, after only a few months, dropped out of the military, the acknowledged prince Joachim, that perhaps it was him that had pushed his son too much.
And he’s apparently not going to repeat with her other three children, prince Felix, prince Henrik and princess Athena.
Author and kongehusekspert Søren Jakobsen is impressed by the openness, as prince Joachim shows in the documentary:
“He seems very settled in the broadcast. One should keep in mind that the run-up to this series was a man in a midtlivskrise,” he says, with allusion to the prince filmed the series shortly after it became known that he had to move to France.
“But he may well adjust his a bit arrogant and self-important image a bit, and it seems I serve him. He has learned a little along the way, and I think that one must recognise. It clothes him to recognize that he needs something else in his life – and to his children may freely choose,” he says.
Søren Jakobsen estimates that we will probably not see more of prince Joachim’s children being pressured educational:
“I think there will be any pressure on that there are several sons, who must go through the military, if not they have the desire.”
B. T. has several times tried to get a comment from prince Joachim to his documentary. The royal family has not responded to our query.
