Nikolai gets hurt while visiting a restaurant with Alexandra

[dKaren]

I saw many kids (however most of them are Asian) eating raw fish at the restaurants in California. Since Alex is 1/4 Asian, grew up in Hong Kong where the Japanese food has always been extremely popular, it's not surprising she took her kids to eat raw fish.

[getafix]

they should have done Take-Away 

so Nic could run to his heart content in his own back-yard.

G

[PeDe]

Here is what EB has to report:

Prince Nikolai got injured when eating on Thursday noon with his mother at a shushi restaurant. The 10-year-old prince was, according to Ekstra Bladet source somewhat unquiet when he and Countess Alexandra had lunch.

The young prince sped around the restaurant Stick N 'Sushi at Øster Farimagsgade, Copenhagen. Amid the over leveraged foolery Prince Nikolai overlooked a glass door he crashed in. The kid fell to the floor and was bleeding, says Ekstra Bladet source.

Alexandra took the situation anything but quiet and was angry with both the boy - and about the door, which she felt was too hard to see.

It has, despite repeated attempts not been possible to get a comment on the case from Stick N 'Sushi.

Here are some reader comments:  

Flemming H.
Yes! What looks like the devil to run into a glass door which is difficult to see. He behaves indeed like a child!

Nixen B.
"The kid was sent to the floor and bleeding"
WHERE were PET and royal bodyguards at?? This is something be a waste, they should have open glass door immediately when His Royal frivolous Prince Nikolai approaching!

Leila M.
Alexandra is a hystade not the first time let the boys run around like wild animals. "The door is too hard to see". The cow sits and eats for my tax dollars. Before she was divorced, she was also unpopular at Danish embassies in just by her hysteria.

Paul E.
Shut up, pace and direction - let's get some more of it. Lord of goodness to all stiff collar. The kid run into a glass door, more must be not redeemed before they tear their hair out on poor upbringing.
If no children are allowed to be children, who will?

Dorte F.
But ... Of course children should be allowed to be children, but they must also behave properly - and when you are 10 years you must therefore be able to sit calmly down at a restaurant and not tear around. If a 10-year-old can not, parents have not done their job well enough. So simple.
 
Paul E.
She should have taken him at a playground instead.

Bente L.
Not the first time. We hear, Alexandra does not have control over his children. Who fa .... want to be at a restaurant and being harassed by naughty kids - not even Alexandra
 
Soren A.
Too bad, Uffe! It's Insult of the Royal Family, it should be punishable by death!

Mohamad J.
YES ... He is a child just as well as many children are ....! Enjoy just ahead and play and enjoy you have a childhood, there are other people who did not have a childhood, but we have to live with ... :-(
 
carl-heinz f.
Mohamad J.
Yes, we must then assume that he is a child like other children also EER child.
Later you will be young, continues as an adult and hopefully will be most so earlier.
Very sharp saw Mohamad.
And of course he must continue to play .... but damned not when at a restaurant, mate.

Kathe P.
Carl-heinz ...
derivatives one can then infer that you do not believe that people with children must go to a restaurant .... or at least take their children with.
Guess what .... we live in a free country, obviously, and I actually think it is liberating to see the little fun, it was perhaps better they sat at the table and just screamed.
Children are children and will get hurt. EB reports that Alex swore at Nikolai and I do not believe in it ... maybe she admonished the boy on that this is what happens when you bounce .... people interfering in things they do not have sense of, a bit like when I stood in supermarkets and scolded my three-year out, a lady was very indignant, thought I was a very bad mother, I called him because he had filled his pockets with candy ... am glad that I saw it for what would the lady have said about my parenting skills when the bell went off at checkout, o)
Children are children and they should be allowed to be, to a certain limit, of course, but a little trench around a restaurant takes no damage because of o)
 
Jacob K.
Kathe P.
Children are of course welcome at rest. BUT ... ONLY under the condition that they follow the "rules" set by going to a restaurant and that roar around (which is annoying for both staff and guests) is NOT one of the rules ...
Of course Alex was angry with the boy, it's embarrassing for the educative that does not filter through to the child with admonitions about how to behave ... AND angry at "the door" when her child has just been "wounded" by sitting haha .. a quite natural reaction in the present.
However Alexandra should have chosen a more child-friendly place to eat ... eg. McDonalds because Nicolai is not yet mature enough for a normal temperature. restaurant.

Annie N.
I think ... it suggests poor upbringing that he be allowed to run around in a restaurant that way. Had it been my children, they had been told to sit quietly on their chairs until we had to leave. But there is nothing to suggest that because it's Nicolai, so there is no limit to what he is allowed to .... very poor upbringing is my opinion.
 
Brian R.
You take no young to such a place. We know they will get bored to death.
 
Kristian C.
Certainly
I have had my daughter at 6 years of Reef'n Beef and she can easily figure out how to sit still and behave quite nicely when you are a public place as the restaurant. It's all about upbringing.
 

Dorte F.
Exactly, if children are properly educated, they may well be in a restaurant, theater, etc. It's all a matter of a) to teach children rules and boundaries and 2) to deal with the kids and talk to them so they learn how much fun it is to be at a restaurant, theater, etc.

Kurt A.
because it's good your little pusselinger såååååå sits nicely when they are in town with you, Well they have certainly a Caliber 45 in the neck.

Milos L.
No, Kurt
A child of Nikolai age can easily figure out how to behave nicely.

Dorothy M.
It's not the first time the princes described as disruptive to other guests at the restaurant. They have before described as noisy and rushing around ... sad.
 
Did you guys ever hear about that Alex couldn't handle the boys, or that all of them (A, N, F & pimp) were a nuisance to other guests???

[Charlotte]

Alex sure likes to indulge her little men. I don't see the kids acting like this with Joachim.

[Jane]

If one of my kids was bleeding I might say something like " Why is that door designed like that?" in the heat of the moment - can't blame Alex if that was her first reaction. I do think that these are not small children, though and should not be running around in a restaurant.
Interesting to see the range of opinions about Alex in the posts from EB.

[lupina]

Running, walking, adult or child, having a close encounter with a glass door is not unusual, it happens quite frequently…I have done it myself,    (adult/walking) and it bloody ( )  hurts,    - Alex’s reaction, especially when she saw secretions of sanguine fluid plastered around the prince, is IMO understandable, a normal reaction, until the extent of the problem is ascertained.


lupina

[divinemiss]

I think it was quite natural how Alex reacted. You would get a fright and perhaps say something to the people at the restaurant as well as the child (your child is bleeding quite a lot and presumably would be crying in pain)- maybe when Alex clamed down she realised that accidents happen

[Lena]

Running, walking, adult or child, having a close encounter with a glass door is not unusual, it happens quite frequently…I have done it myself,    (adult/walking) and it bloody ( )  hurts,    - Alex’s reaction, especially when she saw secretions of sanguine fluid plastered around the prince, is IMO understandable, a normal reaction, until the extent of the problem is ascertained.


lupina

And if it would have been Christian and mummy Mary your reaction would have been the same? 

[lupina]

Running, walking, adult or child, having a close encounter with a glass door is not unusual, it happens quite frequently…I have done it myself,    (adult/walking) and it bloody ( )  hurts,    - Alex’s reaction, especially when she saw secretions of sanguine fluid plastered around the prince, is IMO understandable, a normal reaction, until the extent of the problem is ascertained.


lupina

And if it would have been Christian and mummy Mary your reaction would have been the same? 

Can't answer that until it becomes reality! 



lupina

[hanzo1]

I think that both parents and restaurant are to blame

he is big enough to sit down and It's his mom responsibility to make sure that he does not only that If he was running he might have disturb the other people eating there

but a clear door isn't good either anywhere

[royal observer]

I think it was quite natural how Alex reacted. You would get a fright and perhaps say something to the people at the restaurant as well as the child (your child is bleeding quite a lot and presumably would be crying in pain)- maybe when Alex clamed down she realised that accidents happen

I agree. So the kid has an accident and all of a sudden Alex is a bad parent? (as some of the commentators have implied with their "not under Joachim's watch" remarks) And so Alex panicked and lashed out at the restaurant after seeing the copious amounts of blood and all of a sudden she's "hysterical"? Give her a break!

[Cara]

the kid is 10 years old. that's old enough to be able to sit still through a meal. instead he's running around in a restaurant?
 
IMO alex overreacted. no need to get angry with the boy. running into a glass door is painful enough. no need to add to it by scolding the kid after having allowed him to act up. and no need to get mad at the restaurant who is not responsible for the misbehavior of young royals and ex royals.

[shoshanah]

Who said she is a bad parent?  I said she should not have blamed the restaurant if that is what she did.  The boy is not 3, he is 10.  And it was a restaurant, not a kiddie playground.

[joys54]

Again, maybe this is how the article is MAKING it seem...like Alexandra lashed out at Nikolai.  We all weren't there so we don't know.  I'm sure she might have spoken sharply to him...she was afraid of the extent of his injuries, plus let's face it...most of us have been there ourselves...you're embarrassed at your child causing a problem, but because you're embarrassed, you show anger to cover over your worry.  I feel it's both at fault, Nikolai is old enough but at the same time, he's only 10 and thank God he wasn't hurt worse.  It was probably his head that got injured thus copious amounts of blood...all head wounds bleed more.  But the restaurant should also be culpable and not just for children...they could put some kind of stickers on this glass door or an actual sign; something to indicate because there's many times when an elderly person has done the same thing here in the USA and restaurants learned that they had to give a warning.

[Paula]

Running, walking, adult or child, having a close encounter with a glass door is not unusual, it happens quite frequently…I have done it myself,    (adult/walking) and it bloody ( )  hurts,    - Alex’s reaction, especially when she saw secretions of sanguine fluid plastered around the prince, is IMO understandable, a normal reaction, until the extent of the problem is ascertained.


lupina

And if it would have been Christian and mummy Mary your reaction would have been the same?  

Lena
Very good question  
  for you

Do you remember the incident on the balcony,something positive very quickly turned against her