Royal Family of Monaco: Princess Charlene says she is “more serene” but with “still fragile” health
Still reassuring. Princess Charlene of Monaco, who returned to the Rock in March after a long absence for health problems, now feels “more serene” but recognizes that her condition “is still fragile”, in an interview with the French daily on Wednesday. Nice morning. “My state of health is still fragile and I don’t want to go too fast. The road has been long, difficult and so painful. Today I feel more serene,” explained the princess, who attended Monte-Carlo Fashion Week on Tuesday evening, along with her daughter Gabriella.
As part of a trip to South Africa, the country where she grew up and whose nationality she has, the wife of Prince Albert of Monaco, 44, underwent surgery last August. In September, the princess was rushed to hospital after fainting due to complications from the serious ear, nose and throat infection she contracted in May, her foundation said. She then underwent an operation under general anesthesia in early October related to this infection.
“Our family is exposed to the media and the slightest weakness is relayed”
On November 23, a source close to the Palace told AFP that the former Olympic swimmer had been admitted “to a specialized establishment following great fatigue linked to her weakness”. The palace then announced on March 12 that the princess had returned to the rock. Asked about the rumors circulating during her long absence, the princess replied: “You want to talk about rumors of divorce or of my new home in Switzerland… I still find it regrettable that certain media peddle such rumors about my life, my couple “.
“Like everyone else, we are human beings and like all human beings, we have emotions and weaknesses, only our family is exposed to the media and the slightest weakness is relayed,” she lamented.
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Former high-level swimmer, Charlene Lynette Wittstock, born in Rhodesia (current Zimbabwe), married Prince Albert II of Monaco in 2011. The tenth anniversary of marriage could not be celebrated last July in the Principality due to the absence of Charlene. Albert is the son of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly, an American film star who died in a car accident in 1982.