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Swedish royal couple turned away from German restaurant

World Aug. 22, 2011 - 04:00AM JST ( 17 )

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DentShopAug. 22, 2011 - 07:46AM JST

“Whether you’re a street sweeper or queen—we just didn’t have a table or enough manpower in the kitchen at that time and our hands were tied.”

Fair enough. She was hosting a wedding party. I would only send them a letter if it meant more publicity for my restaurant.
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OracleAug. 22, 2011 - 08:14AM JST

I am so glad for this hard-hitting and all important investigative reporting. Just when I thought journalists were getting lazy!

Nevertheless, Schellenberger and her husband Michael plan to send a letter to King Carl XVI Gustaf and German-born Queen Silvia to apologize.

Oh God! How people have fought to get out from under the boot of royality and here is someone going to lick those boots!
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SerranoAug. 22, 2011 - 08:18AM JST

No apologies necessary. They were busy and didn't have a table available.
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Elbuda MexicanoAug. 22, 2011 - 08:20AM JST

OMG! My tears flow and flow for these 2 hungry Swedish royals, they were not recognized?? Too bad! Try the drive through at Mc Donalds, they recognize that you are hungry right away!
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tkoind2Aug. 22, 2011 - 09:28AM JST

She hit it right the first time. They were busy and there was no table for anyone. Fair enough. No apology needed.

What is it with people and royalty? Didn't thousands of years of repression, violence and domination by "royal" classes teach people anything at all? How many died world wide to throw off the chains these people forged over all those centuries? And here we are still longing for kings, queens, princesses and princes.

Shameful! No one individual, no matter what blood flows in his or her veins is any more or less important than another human being.
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tmarieAug. 22, 2011 - 09:31AM JST

Why is this "news"?
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tajAug. 22, 2011 - 09:49AM JST

No apology needed, but as DentShop says, this whole thing is just publicity for the restaurant. (not really news. original reporter must be a friend of the restauranteur.)
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forzaducatiAug. 22, 2011 - 09:56AM JST

I read nowhere that these royals demanded a table, or demanded an aplology. I do read though, that they just went their way without divulging who they actually were and it seems they were happy to knibble on a pizza elsewhere.
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WilliBAug. 22, 2011 - 11:21AM JST

Gee, what is the news in that. The restaurant was full, period. I don´t understand what the restaurant owner should apologize for.
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BreitbartVictoriousAug. 22, 2011 - 12:50PM JST

The sort of incident that once led to wars; nowadays it is in the outcome of the Eurovision Song Contest where slights to national pride like this get settled.
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LagunaAug. 22, 2011 - 04:08PM JST

Another reason why I always carry my crown and scepter with me.
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VirtuosoAug. 22, 2011 - 04:40PM JST

At least her reason wasn't because they were gaikokujin....
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MadvertsAug. 22, 2011 - 05:07PM JST

Heh, can't hurt them being shown what life can be like for us commoners from time to time.
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tclhAug. 22, 2011 - 05:55PM JST

So what would you do then if you recognized them at that time without any table available?
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TrentonGaijinAug. 22, 2011 - 07:43PM JST

Sounds very civil- "Oh, no tables available, well we'll go have pizza instead." I could easily image them demanding a table because "we're the king & queen of Sweden." Or maybe that would be more probable if they were celebrities instead of royals....
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oberstAug. 23, 2011 - 12:03AM JST

the Swedish couple has class which is sorely missing from those so called celebrities
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John BeckerAug. 23, 2011 - 01:43AM JST

Yeah, I think we can assume they weren't dressed the same as they are in that picture up there.... Nice that they (apparently) didn't make a big deal about it.

So if the lady at the restaurant didn't recognize them, who did? Who told her? Could it possibly have been the person who wrote this report?