Charlene from Monaco: How to Be Unhappy Among Roses and Diamonds

• Monaco becomes a fashion runway on its national day and without the presence of Charlene

Last March, Charlene traveled to South Africa to pay tribute to the recently killed King of the Zulu Goodwill Zwelithini and to participate in a campaign against rhino poaching. What was to be a short visit turned into an

involuntary

? While in his country, he contracted an ear, nose and throat infection. After two operations, he left the hospital. She looked thin and weakened, as if she had just emerged from a losing match to points with her life; but she was smiling like a Venus spiritualized by paleness.

On November 8 he returned to Monaco. In the photo of the reunion with her family published by the

newspaper

her hair, now brown, and the

on her fingers stood out. That disturbing detail fueled rumors about the true reasons that led Charlene to extend her return for eight months.

Already before their wedding, more than a

they spoke (gossip) of an alibi to ensure Alberto's offspring.

On the day of the wedding, everything was luxury and glamor in the medieval Courtyard of the Grimaldi Palace.

That day in July, before more than 3,500 guests, the couple exchanged Cartier wedding rings.

A large screen in the square sought the enthusiastic complicity of the Monegasques.

The celebration lasted for three days and cost

THE GREAT MONEGASCA WEDDING

Alberto, 53, came to the altar in a summer uniform of the Palace Guard.

Charlene,

sported an Armani with a 15-foot train and some 40,000 Swarovski crystals.

She was beautiful as the naiad on the figurehead of a Venetian ship.

Princess Grace, mother of the groom, said that "everything worth doing is worth doing well."

The wedding became

but 10 years later, the question is whether it was worth doing.

Charlene looked as sad as a

In fact, the French weekly

assured that before the ceremony he

In the last attempt, she booked a flight to Johannesburg and, on the way to Nice airport, Monegasque agents caught up with her by helicopter, dissuaded her from her intentions and seized her passport.

(Where is James Bond when you need him?)

Princes Albert and Charlene with their children, Jacques and Gabriella.

If, despite everything, she reached the altar, it was, according to the same newspaper, because it was an "arranged" marriage and she finally decided to do her part.

That is, to produce a legitimate heir in exchange for a future millionaire.

Some attributed the tears to emotion;

others, to an omen: something was wrong because the bride turned away when the prince tried to kiss her.

A STRANGE HONEYMOON

Something was wrong, something had to be wrong, why else on their honeymoon in South Africa did they sleep in different hotels? It was published by

she at the Oyster Box in Umhajanga Rocks, near Durban; him, at the Hilton, 15 kilometers away. "For practical reasons," was the brief explanation from official sources. But could there be anything less practical for what is expected of a honeymoon than separate beds?

under these conditions, how could lovers reach for the honey pot and drink in one long, absolute gulp, the music of acts of love falling slowly from the sky?

Charlene already knew - like everyone else - that her husband was the father of

Alexandre, a six-year-old son with Togolese stewardess Nicole Coste, and Jazmin Grace, a 19-year-old daughter with American Tamara Rotolo. What he did not know yet is that, according to the

during his five-year courtship he had had another daughter with an Italian mistress.

The normal thing when these things happen is that your blood is poisoned, that you are unhappy, that you blame the other, everything deteriorates, you break up with him ... and it's over. But Charlene has kept the type for so many years that her face has become a mask that already looks like her true face. It has not lost an iota of its splendor, but

has escaped

and, as Somerset Maugham glimpsed, "what eludes us is always more important than what we have."

Three years after the wedding,

who now, about to turn seven, are the princes of Instagram with their ease and

But - as Corín Tellado taught and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt confirmed - children are not a rogue that ties parents. Despite their romantic statements about the size of their love, Charlene and her husband cannot make us believe that they are a fairy tale couple. You can not fake love, when you do not feel there is nothing to do. And about that there is not much to explain.

I look at the photos of Charlene and I can't help but think of a gulf between pleasure and duty that gives the measure of her tear.

Lord Chesterfield is credited with this maxim (otherwise, similar to others of Perogrullo): "Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison."

His Serene Highness appears serenity, but it

In addition, his health still does not allow him to fulfill his commitments.

A statement from the Monegasque house said on November 16: "Your Highnesses agree that a period of calm and rest is necessary for the recovery of Princess Charlene."

ON THE LOOSE ROPE

Under the circumstances, it is normal.

What is not normal is that the princess

The Californian magazine

has revealed that he is staying in an apartment 300 meters from the palace, above a chocolate factory.

To acclimatize, they say.

During how much time?

but that quarantine is rarer than a fish with hair.

I read in the French magazine

that "there is no doubt that there is water in the gas between the two lovers."

I read in the German magazine

that

And I don't want to read more.

At the Hermitage hotel in Monte Carlo I heard a certain legend about the Monegasque prince Rainier I, who reigned in the 13th century.

He kidnapped a maiden, raped her and when he abandoned her he metamorphosed into a witch and launched a curse:

The curse reached Charlene's Grimaldi sisters-in-law and, apparently, also her who, like her mother-in-law Grace Kelly, seems to have been born to be a princess among roses and diamonds, but has not been able to avoid the thorns or the loss of the diamond shine Of their eyes.

A wedding can be

Lorca wrote something about that.

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