Charlene of Monaco at the gala of the Red Cross: this year when she tried to hide her baby bump
This Monday, July 18, Princess Charlene is expected at the famous Red Cross gala, one of the key events of the summer season on Le Rocher. On the occasion of this event dear to Monegasques, Gala.fr invites you to relive this year when Prince Albert’s wife tried to hide her rounded belly…
On that particular day, his appearance was eagerly awaited. Probably more than all the other years. While Charlene of Monaco is used to attending, once a year, at the Monaco Red Cross gala, usually on the arm of Prince Albert, the arrival of the former professional swimmer caused a sensation in 2014. And for good reason, that year, everyone in Le Rocher knows that the wife of the Monegasque sovereign is preparing to give him an heir. Everyone scrutinizes the arrivals of the guests, hopes to discover Princess Charlene’s baby bump, so five months pregnant at the time of this event. Once on the scene, the person concerned evolves within Sporting de Monte-Carlo and does not hesitate to strike a pose in front of the photographers, accompanied by his prince, as if nothing had happened. Or almost. At the risk of disappointing the curious, the mother-to-be chooses to bet on an outfit that camouflages her rounded belly.
Knowing that she is scrutinized by all parties because of her pregnancy, Charlene of Monaco does not however prefer not attract attention. She refuses to steal the show and draw all the light on her during this traditional gala, this choice being inappropriate in the eyes of the organizers and other guests of this 66th Monegasque Red Cross gala. She opts for a long midnight blue dress by Dior, flowing and flared, which leaves very little glimpse of her forms as a pregnant woman. For his part, Prince Albert, who did not have to ask himself the same questions as his wife, wears an elegant black and white tuxedo, with a bow tie.
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A pregnancy made official a few months earlier
Destroyed by the attacks which claimed, wrongly, that she was unable to give an heir to Prince Albert, Charlene of Monaco is finally became a mother at the age of 36. The announcement was made by the prince’s palace, three months before his appearance at the gala of the Red Cross: “Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco the immense joy of announcing that they are expecting a happy event. The birth is expected at the end of the year“, we could read in a press release dated May 30, 2014. Seven months later, on December 10 precisely, Prince Albert’s wife gave birth to twins, Jacques and Gabriella, in the maternity ward of the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco. Two children who havechanged his life forever“, as the princess confided, in the columns of Paris Matchat the time:They are beautiful, adorable, I am madly in love with them.” Twelve years later, nothing has changed…
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