His company, JJ Film, produced television programs that made viewers wiser about the members of the royal family, but also about the people with whom they interact at home and abroad.
Among other things, in the mid-1990s Jacob Jørgensen created four programs about the seasons in the royal house for TV2. Here he appeared as a firm interviewer in the conversations with the Queen, who acknowledged by telling about new sides of herself and the job as regent.
– For me, it was important that it was a conversation and not an interview with established questions. There must be room to capture the mood, and one must be able to improvise, he later told BT
The regent couple were so pleased with the result that it was followed by other programs. Among other things, it was Jacob Jørgensen who was behind two programs on DR about the queen on the occasion of her 40th regent’s anniversary in 2012.
Along the way, Crown Princess Mary and Prince Henrik’s French family are also portrayed, just as JJ Film came close to Princess Alexandra and Prince Joachim – perhaps also too close in Jacob Jørgensen’s opinion.
In the program “My home is my castle”, the then princess invited the film crew inside at Schackenborg castle.
Included in the team was Jacob Jørgensen’s son, Martin Jørgensen, who later married Alexandra and the father of Princes Nikolai and Felix.
After eight years, the marriage broke down, with everything that followed of details in the media – also of a very private nature.
Jacob Jørgensen was originally trained as an advertising photographer and worked for a number of years as an editor and film photographer in Milan, Italy.
When he returned home in the late 1970s, he collaborated with filmmaker Jørgen Roos to form his own JJ Film a few years later.
In addition to royals, Jacob Jørgensen has portrayed cultural figures such as the author Fay Weldon, the artists Olafur Eliasson and Robert Jacobsen and the actors Ghita Nørby and Tommy Kenter.
In recent years, there has been more silence about JJ Film. The company has at times struggled with the economy, and a few years ago the buildings in Valby were sold.
Today, the company is located in smaller premises in Christianshavn.
Source: The Nordic Page