Long absent from the Rock for health problems, Princess Charlene of Monaco made her first public appearance since January 2021 during a car race organized by the Principality.

Charlene of Monaco was with her husband, Prince Albert, and her two children, Jacques and Gabriella, at the Monaco E-Prix race. The royal family presented the prizes to the pilots on the podium.

On November 23, a source close to the Palace indicated that the former Olympic swimmer had been admitted “to a specialized establishment following great fatigue linked to her weakness”, in Switzerland.

A month later, a press release from the prince’s palace then specified that the recovery of the princess “should still take a few months”.

Absent on November 16 at a ceremony to hand over the parcel from the Monegasque Red Cross in which she was expected to participate, the princess also remained invisible during the Monegasque national holiday three days later.

An operation in South Africa

Aged 43, she returned on November 8 from South Africa, the country where she grew up and of which she is a national. She had undergone surgery there under general anesthesia at the beginning of October, the last of a series of interventions decided following an otolaryngological infection.

Her last public appearance with Albert in Monaco dates back to January 2021. On August 25, she posted photos on Instagram with her husband and children.

Former top swimmer, Charlene Lynette Wittstock, born in 1978 in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), married Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2011.

The international people press had recently revived speculation about a divorce or separation of the princely couple, fueled by the prolonged absence of the princess on the Rock.

The ten years of marriage of the couple could not be celebrated in July in the Principality because of this absence.