a new ordeal for Charlene of Monaco
“Their Serene Highnesses agreed together that a period of calm and rest was necessary for the good recovery of the health of Princess Charlene”, announced the princely couple on Tuesday, in a press release. “Given the situation, the Princely Couple announces that Princess Charlene will unfortunately not be able to participate this year in the National Day festivities alongside her family,” the statement continued.
Aged 43, Charlene suffers from a “state of deep general fatigue” after a serious infection and after ten years of marriage with Prince Albert II, which does not look like a fairy tale.
Her tears at the wedding in 2011
On July 1, 2011, the princess burst into tears on the day of her marriage to Albert of Monaco. She explained two years later to Times that “there was such overwhelming pressure, all these different emotions because of the rumors, and obviously the tension built up and I burst into tears. And then I burst into tears even more because I I was like, ‘Oh no, the whole world saw me cry’ “.
Since then, many rumors have come to bring a completely different version. According to The Express, Charlene would have liked to interrupt the preparations for her marriage and return to her native country, South Africa, which the princely palace denied. For its part the Sunday opening hours tells that, in front of his will to flee, the palace would have even confiscated his passport at the airport of Nice. The magazine here is evokes the discovery of “the existence of a child conceived when she already had a relationship with Albert”, as the reason for her desire to flee. Here again, the Rock denied, even though Albert of Monaco did indeed have at least two children out of wedlock.
Her husband’s hidden children
Charlène and Albert met in 2000, but their relationship was not formalized until 2006. But in 2005, when they were already dating, Nicole Coste, a former flight attendant, revealed in Paris Match that her son, born in 2003, is the hidden son of Prince Albert of Monaco. The prince assumes his paternity and recognizes it.
A year later, Prince Albert recognizes his daughter, Jazmin Grace-Grimaldie, born in 1992 from an adventure with an American on vacation on the French Riviera.
The story might not end there. At the end of 2020, a Brazilian woman, who lives in Italy, claims that her daughter, born in July 2005, is the biological daughter of Prince Albert II. The latter refuses to take a DNA test. She filed a case in an Italian court. The case should have been tried last February, but the Prince pleaded “sovereign immunity”, delaying the proceedings. The Prince’s lawyers qualify this case as a “vast hoax”.
Is this revelation of a possible third child hidden behind an episode of Charlene’s anger? In December 2020, she appeared in public with a new haircut, which showed half of her head shaved. According to here is, the cause would be “a crisis” of the princess who would have “violently seized the scissors to cut her hair, she was even injured in the face”, reports the magazine.
In Paris Match, Stéphane Bern will comment on the new haircut of the Princess as “the gesture of a wounded woman”. “It turns out that I wanted it for a long time, the style pleases me, that’s all,” the princess will justify.
Severe infection
Charlene’s last public appearance in Monaco dates back to the end of January. The princess then traveled to South Africa, to support the work of her foundation. But her trip dragged on: she developed an “ENT infection”, preventing her from taking the plane to return to the principality. Due to complications, she had to undergo several surgeries. She stayed for six months in South Africa, far from her children and her husband, which fueled rumors of tensions within the princely couple.
Charlene of Monaco finally made her return to Monaco on November 8. But eight days later, a new press release indicated that her medical career “having been very trying in recent months, the stay of several weeks that she has just started will allow her to recover from a state of fatigue. general deep “. The place of her convalescence remains confidential, which does not fail to fuel again rumors of marital crisis, while the Princess was seen without her wedding ring on her return.
The remoteness of his native country
“Sometimes it’s hard to smile”, admitted Charlene of Monaco in a interview with South African magazine Huisgenoot, in 2019. The princess would have struggled to acclimatize to her new place of life, even though she does not speak French. In that same interview, the Princess admitted that she missed her family and friends in South Africa. “I am often sad because I cannot always be there for them,” she added. Only one of his brothers also resides on the Rock.