Albert of Monaco dad hired for Jacques and Gabriella: “I want to leave the choice to my children”
On the occasion of the release of his book Man and the Ocean, Albert II is attributed to his family commitment to the seabed that he perpetuates. In the columns of Monaco Morningof this Monday, July 11, the Monegasque prince returned to the education and the values that he wishes to transmit to his twins.
“Apostle of the scientific community”, committed to the seabed like his ancestor Albert I, Albert II continues his fight against global warming and the destruction of the oceans. A “promise” and one “dedicated to the blue planet“ what he says in his book Man and the Ocean (Flammarion editions) for “to sensitize and alert his contemporaries” on this ecosystem which “to get lost, to die”. If scientists are sounding the alarm, the Monegasque prince has not made it his mission to convert the public. “You always have to leave the choice (…). You have to encourage, be persuasive to show that this is the only possible way”, he explains to Monaco Morning this Monday, July 11.
An attitude that he also adopts with his twins Jacques and Gabriella. If he hopes to transmit his devotion to them, he will not contradict them. “I want to leave the choice to my children, but I fear, unfortunately, thatthey are always constrained for several generations to fight to save what can be saved on our planet”. Little optimistic about the future of the planet, the husband of Charlène de Monaco underlines that if his children perpetuate the family commitment, the road will be long for “to ensure that all ecosystems, land and sea can function properly for our survival”.
Albert II makes Jacques and Gabriella aware of ecology during an official trip
To educate his 7-year-old twins, without ever forcing them, Prince Albert took them with him to Norway, Wednesday, June 22. For this first official family trip with Charlène of Monaco, they performed the exhibition”Sailing the sea of science” (Sailing the sea of science) dedicated to their ancestor Prince Albert I, an oceanographer at the head of several scientific expeditions at the beginning of the 20th century. It is without his wife that the sovereign and his children then traveled to the Arctic in the afternoon of Thursday 23 June to visit the Svalbard Research Institute. Albert II and Jacques then “took a private tour of Longyearbyen and Svalbard Research Park on a trip”, report the magazine Vinatatis El Confidential.
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