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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
Or maybe she's doing it for her family...
Or maybe she's doing it for her family...
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WeNdY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lawd Mgee ... Afta yuh mek wi come a Charlene wedding and admire di happenings ..yuh jus come drap dis pan wi soh - BRAPS!
What a Hataclapse! Well, is nat fi me to understand so .... let the drama begin
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wendy the wholla thread was about Charlene's dilemma.Comment
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
A guess when she si de tikle 'Runaway Bride' she read it as 'Runway Bride'...
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
Royal Honeymoon Over So Soon for Monaco's Prince Albert and Charlene Wittstock?
By KATIE KINDELAN
July 8, 2011
They were married in an extravagant $55 million, three-day royal wedding and are now honeymooning in South Africa, staying in an $8,000-per-night luxury suite. But, apparently, money cannot buy happiness for Prince Albert of Monaco and his new bride, Charlene Wittstock.
Prince Albert, 53, is reportedly trying to persuade his wife, 33, to stick with him a week after what should have been their fairy tale wedding.
Days before their July 2 wedding that set Monaco abuzz, news reports surfaced that Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa, had bolted for the airport, some reports saying as many as three times, with a one-way ticket back to South Africa.
Albert already has two confirmed illegitimate children, and rumors of a third love child are now widely suspected to be behind Wittstock's escape attempts.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The U.K.'s Daily Mail reported that Wittstock is "desperate" to know whether Albert cheated on her and fathered a child during their five-year courtship.</span>
Albert has reportedly undergone DNA tests demanded by his bride, although it's unlikely the results will be released while the couple honeymoons in South Africa for fears that Wittstock would flee while away from the constraints of her marriage in Monaco.
"When they got her into that Catholic Church and got her married, they really trapped her so far as the Catholic Church is concerned," British historian Robert Lacey told ABC News. "It would be very difficult now for her to get a divorce."
While the other royal newlyweds, Prince William and Kate Middleton, have wowed the world on their first official overseas trip abroad with their tender moments together, the body language between Monaco's new royal couple has been the opposite.
Throughout their July 2 wedding, royal watchers observed Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene, as Wittstock is now formally known, looked more like "Her Miserable Highness" than a blushing new bride.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Prince Albert had to formally ask his bride for a kiss, a request caught on camera for the world to see.</span>
"When he goes to kiss her on their wedding day, she recoils in some way," Lacey said.
Wittstock was in tears throughout the wedding ceremony, while her husband looked on.
<span style="font-weight: bold">And the new groom might have had a sense of what was to come in their marriage when he offered his new bride not love but a tepid thank you to his bride.
"You are a wonderful, um, sometimes, um, patient woman with me," Prince Albert said in his wedding speech.
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Wittstock's new husband has a notorious playboy past, having dated a string of celebrity women through the years, including U.S. actresses Brooke Shields and Gwyneth Paltrow, and supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell.
Albert has a 6-year-old son named Alexandre with a former flight attendant, and a 19-year-old daughter, Jazmin, with a U.S. real estate agent.
Under Monegasque law, because both were fathered out of wedlock, neither Alexandre nor Jazmin can become a legitimate heir to the throne, something Monaco and its royal family desperately seek.
The need for an heir raised suspicions that if an "arrangement" were reached over their nuptials, it might be that Wittstock will produce a legitimate heir for Albert in return for a lavish, royal lifestyle.
Historian Lacey, for one, questions whether Wittstock is not, instead, the latest victim of a 700-year-old curse placed on one of Albert's blood-thirsty ancestors.
"The monks placed a curse on the family ever since saying they will never have a happy marriage, they will always have trouble producing legitimate heirs," Lacey said. "And there'll be other tragedies and look what's happened."
In Prince Albert's family history, his mother, U.S.-born Princess Grace, endured husband Prince Rainier's philandering and then died in a car crash.
Princess Grace's eldest child, and Albert's sister, Princess Caroline, saw the father of her children killed in a speedboat accident.
In his bachelor days, it seemed nothing could pressure Prince Albert to tie the knot. In 2006, he told ABC's Ron Claiborne that he had no plans to marry in the "near or distant future."
"The wedding must be a relief to Monegasques," Catherine Ostler, a contributing editor to the Daily Mail, told ABC News before the royal couple said their "I dos."
"It looked like by the time a man gets to 53 you start wondering if it's ever going to happen," she added.
<span style="font-weight: bold">In addition to the infidelity questions surrounding her husband, Wittstock was also said to have been overwhelmed by preparations for the wedding, lonely because of her lack of friends in Monaco and frustrated by her failure to speak French, the official language of the tiny but wealthy European nation.</span>
Wittstock competed in the 2000 Olympics for South Africa. She was born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to working-class parents: her father, Michael, is a sales manager and her mother, Lynette, a retired swim coach.Comment
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
mi head a hurt mi 
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WeNdY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Lawd Mgee ... Afta yuh mek wi come a Charlene wedding and admire di happenings ..yuh jus come drap dis pan wi soh - BRAPS!
What a Hataclapse! Well, is nat fi me to understand so .... let the drama begin </div></div>
wendy the wholla thread was about Charlene's dilemma. </div></div>
Mi naina a pay close attention G. Mi goh an si wan heap sintig we mi miss.. a di photo dem mi did a penny all dis time
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco - round two
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nunya</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A guess when she si de tikle 'Runaway Bride' she read it as 'Runway Bride'... </div></div>
BOAL.. Dat si NO joke .. I swear I did see "Runway" bride .. Lawd a mercy pan mi \o/
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The wedding has started. am trying to find a decent pic of charlene's dress by armani, which seems to be an off the shoulder number, not very grace kelly-ish at all, thank goodness.
in the meantime, here's Naomi arriving for the wedding with her russian billionaire boyfriend. fascinators are becoming like louboutins - so common now that they suck.
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damn i love this dressComment
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Naomi Campbell wore a white gown to Charlene's wedding reception. Do u think she upstaged the bride?
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no cause it is ugly as sin, she looks trashy then again...........Comment
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lawd me late,
but this was nice to see,
nice to see how the euros mix and mingle
Charlene have great sense of style, luvvv it, but yep, she dont seem happy, thats for sure,Comment
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No baby yet for depressed Monaco princess
<span style="font-weight: bold">Princess Charlene 'depressed' at failure to give Monaco ruler Albert legitimate heir and 'fulfill secret deal to release her from marriage'</span>
Prince Albert of Monaco’s new wife Charlene Wittstock has become ‘depressed’ at her failure to provide her husband with a legitimate heir, it was claimed today.
Princess Charlene is said to have struck a ‘deal’ with the principality’s playboy ruler to bear him a child after she tried to flee before their wedding last summer.
But the 33-year-old South African is now unable to get pregnant, France’s Voici magazine reported.
'This subject is weighing more and more heavily on her shoulders.'
Rumours of a rift and a ‘pregnancy pact’ erupted even before the couple married in a lavish state wedding ten months ago.
Charlene was said to have bolted for Nice airport two days before they married after hearing Albert had had a third love-child during their relationship.
Monaco officials were said to have coaxed her back by brokering a deal between the Prince and his reluctant bride that she provide him with a legitimate heir.
After that she would be free to leave of her own free will, it was reported last July.
One source said at the time: 'Charlene will provide an heir, then if things don’t go well, she will receive a generous divorce settlement once she’s served a decent amount of time.'
Albert, 54, has one seven-year-old son Alexandre with Togolese air hostess Nicole Coste. He has another daughter Jazmin, 20, born after a brief affair with American estate agent Tamara Rotola.
He was apparently told on the day of his wedding that he would have to take a paternity test to determine whether he was the father of the third illegitimate child.
After that she would be free to leave of her own free will, it was reported last July.
One source said at the time: 'Charlene will provide an heir, then if things don’t go well, she will receive a generous divorce settlement once she’s served a decent amount of time.'
Albert, 54, has one seven-year-old son Alexandre with Togolese air hostess Nicole Coste. He has another daughter Jazmin, 20, born after a brief affair with American estate agent Tamara Rotola.
He was apparently told on the day of his wedding that he would have to take a paternity test to determine whether he was the father of the third illegitimate child.
Charlene last year called suggestions that she was reluctant to marry 'hilarious' on the Today show.
'Why would we go to all this effort, to have this fantastic couple of days, and have our most intimate and dearest friends come and join us, for us to be reluctant,' she said.
Her husband suggested the rumours might have been triggered by jealousy from people who 'did not like the fact that we were finally together and married.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...l#ixzz1txAngylnComment
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Re: No baby yet for depressed Monaco princess
Picture from February this year. People comment on her sad eyes. Question is, why did she agree to marry him? This day and age, supposedly, women have a choice in these things.
My guess is she underestimated the isolation of the life of a princess in a household where the production of an heir is the primary objective of marriage. The wife of the heir to the throne in Japan also is suffering depression related to isolation and inability to produce an heir.Comment
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I think her eyes just always look like that.
will and kate 1 year in and no baby yet (although some suspect is because the palace nuh want baby overshadow jubilee foolishness) suh why people a rush them
plus baby now that mean dem not even get likkle time to enjoy being a married couple etc
he took a long time to settle down and she is 33 (not quite young). i doubt he was serious about producing an heir. IVF etc next ???
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Re: No baby yet for depressed Monaco princess
maybe she need to spend more time with these ladies, go out and have fun take her mind off baby
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Re: Runaway bride of Monaco
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Naomi Campbell wore a white gown to Charlene's wedding reception. Do u think she upstaged the bride?
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in this monstrosity? surely you jest
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