A lonely princess in her palace, unhappy, stuck in a stifling princely marriage, to the point of fleeing to find her country of origin … Throughout her convalescence in South Africa, Charlene of Monaco has been the subject of strong rumors, as to the state of her marriage to Prince Albert. Even before she suffered from a serious ENT infection earlier this year, the ex-swimmer’s increasingly rare smiles were causing gossip and concern. However, the 43-year-old princess would be far from the image that is readily attributed to her by the press …

The english magazine Tatler dedicates its January 2021 issue to Charlene of Monaco and comments on her misadventures: “Even more drama than in a soap opera. What does it take to be a modern princess?“A portrait supplemented by several testimonies, in particular of former comrades of basins with whom Charlene Wittstock trained, before becoming princess. We learn then that the mother of Jacques and Gabriella (soon 7 years old) would not be so” naive ” and that on the contrary, she would be an ambitious woman who should not be underestimated.

When she was still swimming, Charlene Wittstock was known to be a focused athlete and hard on herself. However, far from being lonely, she was often well surrounded and sometimes even let herself go to “antics”. On the other hand, her former swimming buddies do not hide the fact that they were surprised when they learned of the start of her relationship with Albert of Monaco in the mid-2000s. Charlene Wittstock had never spoken to them about this European prince …

She is very good at keeping her intelligence a secret

Some of her friends may have been stomping on getting closer to Prince Albert, but far from them the idea that she ended up in this marriage. “Charlene is not Princess Di [Diana, NDLR]”, assures a source of the magazine.”She may seem extremely naive, but nothing could be further from the truth. She is very good at keeping her intelligence a secret“To the legend which suggests that Charlene Wittstock tried to flee her marriage to Prince Albert of Monaco at the last moment, in 2010, this source adds:”I don’t think for a second that she didn’t know what she was doing when she married him. “