Monaco: Charlène breaks the silence and settles her accounts
After a long silence, the counter-offensive… In an interview given to Nice morning, Charlene of Monaco made a point of giving news of her health while reacting to the many rumors which accompanied her year of absence from Monaco – certain newspapers, including the German press, had announced a couple on the verge of divorce. “I still find it regrettable that certain media peddle such rumors about my life, my relationship,” she reacted on the sidelines of Monte-Carlo Fashion Week, where she went this week. “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 notably regretted.
Rumors spread after Charlene’s extended stay last year in South Africa, with some newspapers claiming that she had fled to her native country to escape a role she would always have struggled to take on… sovereign prince had ended up reacting by affirming that his wife had suffered from ENT problems in cascade, requiring heavy operations which prevented her from taking the plane. But once back in Monaco last November, Charlene disappeared again in a private clinic to “follow a therapeutic retreat”, relaunching the rumors while Prince Albert assumed alone, or in the company of his sisters Caroline and Stéphanie, the ceremonies officials.
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“Still Fragile”
Having returned to Monaco since mid-April, Charlene wishes to ask her husband today for his support. “We talked about these bad articles together and he did everything to protect me and protect our children,” she explains in Nice morning. “My state of health is still fragile and I don’t want to go too fast,” she continues. The road has been long, difficult and so painful. Today I feel more serene…” She also wishes to salute the Monegasques for the positive messages she received when she was away from the palace.
Charlene’s speech was expected after too long months of silence which were beginning to pose a real problem on the Rock – after all, the couple could have swept away the rumors a long time ago by giving an interview together in a major magazine. The media return of the ghost princess was done gradually, first with family photos staged for the Easter weekend, then a resumption of public activities from the end of April, with an appearance in the official gallery for the Monaco E-Prix car race, with the prince and their twins.
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The pace should pick up, with in particular the Formula 1 Grand Prix this weekend and the traditional Rose ball, a major social gathering of the summer. And for this big comeback in the spotlight, Charlene now sports a white color and a boyish cut… As if to make a clean sweep of the past.