Albert and Charlene of Monaco: this unfiltered confidence of the prince during their first meeting
On Tuesday January 3, 2023, the documentary Albert and Charlene of Monaco, a couple in turmoil will be broadcast from 9:05 p.m. on W9. The opportunity to look back on the couple’s first date, in 2001.
It’s a love story that lasts For more than 20 years. While rumors about the relationship between Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Charlene continue to circulate, the evolution of their relationship is the main subject of the documentary Albert and Charlene of Monaco, a couple in turmoilbroadcast on Tuesday January 3 from 9:05 p.m. on W9.
If the son of Grace Kelly formalized his relationship with the South African swimmer in 2006, their love began years earlier, while the young woman was visiting Monaco. Indeed, in 2001, Charlene Wittstock took part in a swimming competition and is then invited with her team to the ball and dinner organized by the principality. After the evening, she was reportedly asked out by Albert of Monaco, who would be fell under his spell.
Albert of Monaco was very concerned about his descendants
After a ride in a Rolls-Royce and a trip to a nightclub, the future couple would have ended up “stroll through the streets of Monaco, getting to know each other“, as the documentary revealed. It was at this time that the sovereign prince would have nurse to the young sportswoman. According to information subsequently revealed in a South African magazine, Charlene of Monaco would have explained that Albert seemed “particularly worrying about his descendants“.
The man who was 43 years old at the time would have explained to the swimmer that he had to absolutely get married in recent years and have children. “He tells her an incredible thing, it is that if he has no wife and no child, he will be forced to adopt his own nephew, Caroline’s eldest son, to ensure the descent of the kingdom.“. An unprecedented confidence that would not have decided the young woman to leave everything for him. It is only years later that the couple decided to formalize their relationship and get married, before welcoming their twins, Jacques and Gabriella, in 2014.