With only a couple of square kilometers of surface, Monaco causes a sensation of claustrophobia. It is a poor country full of rich people and jewelry stores , of art deco villas and brutalist skyscrapers; but it has especially the Grimaldi , who have turned their Casino-sur-mer into a very entertaining 'it place'. That is why, and because of the weather, the great dukes and the jet-set wanted to roam there, that is why, because of their fiscal climate, the Russian oligarchs and Formula 1 pilots want to live there. The truth is that more than a country It's a stage and Princess Carolina got on it at 9:27 on January 23, 63 years ago ; that is, at the moment of birth. Twenty-one cannon-blasts thundered in the sky of the Principality veiled by the drizzle to greet the arrival of Rainier III and Grace of Monaco's firstborn into the world. The prince himself filmed the first images of his baby Carolina Luisa Margarita Grimaldi , who fascinated the world on television. Three hundred journalists attested to that debut, which was a critical and public success.
Educated in the Dames de Saint-Maur , a private school in the Rock, and in the English boarding school of St. Mary's Ascot, she grew up in a cottony universe until at age 17 she began to dream of flying high and being a plane pilot or traveler in Afghanistan. But his wings were cut and he enrolled in Political Science in Paris, where he discovered the nights of wine and roses and the plebeian but solid boyfriends.
Beautiful , she was already a princess of hardcover paper that reigned on the covers. At age 16, the magazine 'Time' dedicated one under the title of " Carolina, the bride of Europe ". We saw her at the Dance of the Rose and the Red Cross, at the parties of Studio 54 in New York, on the slopes of Gstaad, posing for Helmut Newton with a German shepherd and on the palace balcony at the big events ; but we dreamed it by appearing aboard a Lamborghini at the doors of our institute and taking us to the garden that I shared in the Riviera with Brigitte Bardot.
We went from the dolls of our sisters, but not from that young monegasque who was fascinated by puppies: the westies, the bullgods and, above all, the teckels. Some bipeds were also cool and we almost died of jealousy when Philippe Junot , a gabacho and sparky play boy, took her into the dark, a liaison dangereuse that was shattered at two years. Then we envy the Argentine tennis player Guillermo Vilas and resign ourselves to his 'love story' with the young Rossellini. That it was not only made of smiles, but also of tears, we knew it on the day of his mother's death. Theirs, which were also ours, made her older and washed away when, without permission from the Vatican, she married the Italian businessman Stefano Casiraghi , with whom she had three blond children like beer. Smiles that, again, became tears when at the age of 30, that husband with an angel's face died in a nautical accident. Carolina, a disconsolate widow and impossible girlfriend of the thirties of the world, was 33 and, after the end of innocence, the booklet predicted new seasons.
ROMANCES AFTER SEND
We looked forward to his romance with actor Vincent Lindon and crossed his fingers when he messed with the husband of one of his best friends , Ernest of Hannover , who looked like one of those open-minded princes, but it turned out that what he had was a hole in the head. Pregnant with her daughter Alexandra, she married the guelph in the Hall of Mirrors of the Royal Palace of Monte Carlo, and they found their paradise on the other corner in an impressive Beach House on the Kenyan island of Lamu, in the Indian Ocean. They separated a decade ago, although they have never gotten divorced, so Carolina maintains the title of royal highness, which is more important than being a Grimaldi.
Bohemian Princess , she is able to respect the centuries-old family traditions and to do her real good, to be in the 'front row' of the catwalks side by side with the Gotha (read, Ernest of Hannover) and the 'jet set' and of Going to the end of the world for a good cause, because just as there is no left to do right-wing politics, there is no way to be a princess to try to improve the world turned into a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and the ubiquitous voice of Outcasts from the Philippines, Congo and the world.
The hippie-chic princess who mutated the icon of elegance and muse of Karl Lagerfeld , has ended up being as respectable as a mother queen. Yaya of seven grandchildren, has made a flag of his wrinkles and not even his sister-in-law Charlene, who looks over her shoulder, has managed to eclipse her. They say she is stubborn, arrogant and sibylline , and how good she is to be dethroned.
Anyway, as Proust suspected, time is a golden filter and we who loved it so much continue to see it as the most beautiful of the dance through the smoke of melancholy, which still assails us when we leaf through a magazine at the hairdresser.
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