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Princess Charlene and Prince Albert on the balcony for Monaco’s National Day celebrations

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by Anonymousreply 98November 22, 2019 6:23 PM

She is gorgeous.

Their little boy looks like Jimmy Cagney. I wouldn't turn my back on that one.

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by Anonymousreply 1November 19, 2019 6:55 PM

Her Stepford double needs a tuneup.

by Anonymousreply 2November 19, 2019 6:56 PM

“Do you have Prince Albert in a can?”

by Anonymousreply 3November 19, 2019 6:59 PM

Is he the one with the older out of wedlock kids?

by Anonymousreply 4November 19, 2019 7:05 PM

Where was Albert's black kid?

by Anonymousreply 5November 19, 2019 7:11 PM

R5. This was supposed to be a happy day, and then you had to put a damper on things.

Charlene is stunning. Be nice if she smiled a bit.

by Anonymousreply 6November 19, 2019 7:26 PM

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by Anonymousreply 7November 19, 2019 7:33 PM

Any video to see if Charlene is blinking "save me" in Morse code?

by Anonymousreply 8November 19, 2019 7:34 PM

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by Anonymousreply 9November 19, 2019 7:35 PM

Pierre (far right) is so much better looking than his older brother Andrea.

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by Anonymousreply 10November 19, 2019 7:37 PM

R5, I believe that the son, Alexandre, lives in France, and has a very nice life. He's a teenager now.

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by Anonymousreply 11November 19, 2019 7:37 PM

Those two ugly kids in OP's post need to take a page from the Princess Charlotte School of Looking Cute During Balcony Shots. They look Chucky & Chucky-ette

I have no illusions about the nature of royal marriages, but Albert & Charlene look like the most joyless pair ever.

by Anonymousreply 12November 19, 2019 7:39 PM

Andrea's wife is really frumpy.

She's not even royalty. She's just some commoner beer company heiress. From Colombia, no less.

How in the hell did she ever meet Andrea?

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by Anonymousreply 13November 19, 2019 7:41 PM

Andrea's wife is a MAN, baby!

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by Anonymousreply 14November 19, 2019 7:42 PM

Prince Albert's son is Alexandre Grimalde-Coste.

Here's his mother with Prince Albert.

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by Anonymousreply 15November 19, 2019 7:48 PM

Here's Alexandre with his mother...

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by Anonymousreply 16November 19, 2019 7:49 PM

Alexandre is starting to look like Barack Obama...

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by Anonymousreply 17November 19, 2019 7:49 PM

Is this “Never Been to Me” Charlene? I didn’t take that “ undressed by kings” line literally, I guess I owe her an apology.

by Anonymousreply 18November 19, 2019 8:05 PM

And I guess that “moved like Harlow, in Monte Carlo” was for reals too.

by Anonymousreply 19November 19, 2019 8:06 PM

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by Anonymousreply 20November 19, 2019 8:17 PM

Young Albert

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by Anonymousreply 21November 19, 2019 8:18 PM

The twins know the inside scoop.

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by Anonymousreply 22November 19, 2019 8:21 PM

Alexander looks like Stephanie

by Anonymousreply 23November 19, 2019 8:22 PM

R6 - the only "damper" on this thread is you! How does mention of Albert's eldest son cast unhappiness on the occasion?

by Anonymousreply 24November 19, 2019 8:52 PM

To clarify myself at R22, it's not the happy couple, but the famously grouchy bridesmaid in the lower left-hand corner who resembles the grouchy twins.

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by Anonymousreply 25November 19, 2019 9:11 PM

Are we sure that Andrea's wife isn't a man?

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by Anonymousreply 26November 19, 2019 9:18 PM

Alexandre is old, already.

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by Anonymousreply 27November 19, 2019 9:19 PM

Is this how a billionaire dresses?

Oh, my.

Tatiana, Mary Kate, and Ashley Olsen must all shop at the same store.

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by Anonymousreply 28November 19, 2019 9:22 PM

[quote]Are we sure that Andrea's wife isn't a man?

Are you questioning yourself?

by Anonymousreply 29November 19, 2019 9:29 PM

One wonders what the standing orders for booze and pills to supply Princess Charlene must be; I mean she *never* looks happy or even cracks a simile.

by Anonymousreply 30November 19, 2019 9:30 PM

Louis Ducuret met Marie Chevallier at college and they have been "sweethearts" pretty much ever since.

MC was never rail thin, but more towards a fuller figure. Maybe LD likes women with a bit of meat on their bones.

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by Anonymousreply 31November 19, 2019 9:39 PM

Am always at loss to what standards DL posters use to qualify men as "handsome", or "hot", but Louis Ducruet is neither IMHO.

The prince is a decent enough looking young man, but hardly someone who would be the next big Instahoe or something.

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by Anonymousreply 32November 19, 2019 9:41 PM

r32, he's white and then. Therefore, on DL he's an adonis.

by Anonymousreply 33November 19, 2019 9:44 PM

And the the bitch dared to be accomplished!

[quote]She is a graduate of French business school Skema, where she earned a Bachelor of Business Administration.

[quote]The prestigious college is also where she met her future husband.

[quote]Marie and Louis both went on to study at Western Carolina University where Marie gained a degree in marketing.

[quote]She currently works as a project manager for the glamorous Casino de Monte-Carlo, a position she has held for the last six months.

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by Anonymousreply 35November 19, 2019 9:51 PM

So where was Prince Ernst of Hanover while all this was going on? Pulling a maid in some backstairs tryst I shouldn't wonder.

by Anonymousreply 36November 19, 2019 9:55 PM

How is royalty a thing in this century??

Off with their heads...

by Anonymousreply 37November 19, 2019 10:02 PM

R24. It was a joke. Lighten up.

by Anonymousreply 38November 19, 2019 10:04 PM

Damn.

Those Kelly genes are all but gone. You only see them in Caroline and Stephanie.

I don't see any Kelly in any of the other people in those pictures.

by Anonymousreply 39November 19, 2019 10:04 PM

Well Rainier III certainly got his money's worth from marrying Grace Kelly.

Monaco was considered a backwater and slightly louche one at that before Grace Kelly helped put that postage stamp sized principality on map of respectability.

While Princess Margaret and other royals looked down their noses at Grace Kelly, had it not been for that marriage (and children it produced) don't believe media interest would be that great.

by Anonymousreply 40November 19, 2019 10:06 PM

R39 look at R21. What a shame

by Anonymousreply 41November 19, 2019 10:07 PM

Say what you want about the BRF, but at least Prince Phillip, Prince Charles, Prince Andrew, and the rest know how to dress.

With all their money every man in these Monaco photos looks as if their clothes came from Men's Warehouse.

If Saville Row is too far there are excellent tailors, shirt makers and so forth in Paris, Austria or even Berlin.

by Anonymousreply 42November 19, 2019 10:16 PM

[quote]In terms of bank accounts, TS has more than her husband, and that likely will never change

Nor will the fact that she married a man whose druggie face spells is impending demise. She knows, despite her education, that she married a goner. That she married him and may have "issue" is what's troubling, in general, right? Because she married for impending status despite dad who looks like he's not of this world for any reasonable period.

by Anonymousreply 43November 19, 2019 10:24 PM

What, R43??

Are there drug rumors surrounding Andrea? Never heard about that.

He looks pretty normal, if not a big gaunt.

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by Anonymousreply 44November 19, 2019 10:35 PM

That so much dirt and filth can come out of such a tiny country is staggering.

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by Anonymousreply 45November 19, 2019 10:46 PM

Who's next in line for the throne?

by Anonymousreply 46November 19, 2019 10:47 PM

R44

Ohh yes, Prince Andrea has or had his demons.

They do say much of it came from his tenuous position as heir to throne. Until Prince Albert married and produced heirs, line of succession had Princess Caroline as next in line, and thus her son would come after. Since "uncle" Albert did manage to give the throne a legal heir and spare; unless the unthinkable happens Prince Andrea (and his mother for that matter) are out of the running.

Prince Andrea must now find something to give his life purpose or whatever.

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by Anonymousreply 47November 19, 2019 10:52 PM

Do you really think he's only "gaunt," R44? FFS, he's practically hollow-eyed and ready to die if someone doesn't save him. If he weren't dressed in formal wear, he'd be a prime candidate for a NYC paddy wagon picking up out of the gutter for a trip to Rikers.

Are you a DL regular or did you happen upon here during a search for royalty? If this is your idea of prime male, well, then, what can we say?

by Anonymousreply 48November 19, 2019 10:56 PM

R46

Prince Albert's twin children (in order of birth time) are direct successors. The mulatto by-blow kid is technically ahead, but since his parents weren't legally married at time of birth he is barred from the succession.

If the worse happened (Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriela) some how are removed from picture, and or neither produce legitimate heirs, then throne goes first to Princess Caroline (or her legitimate heirs), then Princess Stephanie (same).

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by Anonymousreply 49November 19, 2019 10:59 PM

Or maybe Andrea is cancer-stricken and R44 failed to notice, for whatever bizarre motives willful blindness might entail.

by Anonymousreply 50November 19, 2019 11:00 PM

Sincerely doubt an heiress worth 2 billion lacked other suitors. Cannot even say that becoming royalty is a big draw for such a girl as Monaco is only a princely serene house. Again by many other European royalty or even noble to just well off Monegasque throne and royal family associated with have a rather louche whiff.

In terms of rank even The Princess Harry (Meghan Markle) out ranks Prince Andrea's wife and the rest of Monaco's RF current spouses. This excludes Princess Charlene of course since she is consort to reigning sovereign.

by Anonymousreply 51November 19, 2019 11:06 PM

All the pomp and circumstance for a country the size of a postage stamp.

by Anonymousreply 52November 19, 2019 11:08 PM

All I know is that Louis Ducruet's father, Daniel Ducruet, is hot.

Too bad he couldn't keep his dick in his pants.

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by Anonymousreply 53November 19, 2019 11:15 PM

Is Silesia any larger my dear?

by Anonymousreply 54November 19, 2019 11:15 PM

Daniel still looks good for his age.

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by Anonymousreply 55November 19, 2019 11:16 PM

R53

"Too bad he couldn't keep his dick in his pants."

Not many Frenchmen do; that goes for most of Latin based other cultures as well.

Princess Grace had trouble with Rainier III for much of their marriage.

by Anonymousreply 56November 19, 2019 11:19 PM

[quote]Sincerely doubt an heiress worth 2 billion lacked other suitors

Which begs the question, why did her father marry her off, why the Monegasque house, and why someone who looks like he's going to OD any day now?

It must be sickening to get an education, have some accomplishments in life and yet the rich father dictates a marriage to a walking "gaunt" man who look like he should have a syringe hanging out of his arm. It's all for a purpose. Tacky rich people crave titles or access to royalty, not matter how lesser or "Serene" they might be. Just have the fucking kid and take the "Serene Highness" title, OK?

Some might question why to bother with all the machinations, but newly wealthy and fundamentally tacky, not even "basic" people crave "legitimacy." When they can't get it in their own countries because they're tacky or too nouveau riche, they take their money elsewhere and hope for the best. In this case, a perfectly nice woman was given up to a total addict. If you fraus think he's just "gaunt," well, good for you.

by Anonymousreply 57November 19, 2019 11:20 PM

True R56, but Stephanie didn't put up with it for even one second.

The minute she found out, they were done. She divorced him.

by Anonymousreply 58November 19, 2019 11:20 PM

[quote] It's all for a purpose. Tacky rich people crave titles or access to royalty

Exactly, R57.

#1 she's from Colombia, a poor country.

#2 her wealth comes from some kind of beer or alcoholic beverage fortune.

#3 she's unfortunate looking.

However, I think they really love each other. After all, she got knocked up before she actually got married.

by Anonymousreply 59November 19, 2019 11:24 PM

Andrea doesn't look like a druggie.

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by Anonymousreply 60November 19, 2019 11:26 PM

Passing these two on the street, you'd never know that she is a billionaire, and he's royalty.

So funny.

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by Anonymousreply 61November 19, 2019 11:28 PM

R57

What century are you living in?

Tatiana Santo Domingo's money is her own, inherited from her grandfather's vast estates upon his demise. There wasn't a whiff of father or anyone else controlling purse strings in relation to marriage.

You've been reading too many old DL royalty threads about the past that has addled your brain into not comprehending this is 2019, not 1919.

TSD is an heiress in her own right just like Doris Duke along with some others. Absent restrictions set down via trusts and or final will (or whatever instruments caused wealth to devolve upon these women), they can do whatever they like.

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by Anonymousreply 62November 19, 2019 11:31 PM

Prince Ernst's eldest son and heir is vastly better looking than what one has seen above.

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by Anonymousreply 63November 19, 2019 11:35 PM

Alejandro Santo Domingo is worth over five billion USD.

In line with many traditions and cultures; the boys got larger shares of inheritance is seems than girls.

Alejandro Santo Domingo - $5.0 billion

Andres Santo Domingo - $5.0 billion

Julio Mario Santo Domingo, III - $2.5 billion

Tatiana Santo Domingo - $2.5 billion

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by Anonymousreply 64November 19, 2019 11:44 PM

Source of all that SD wealth.

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by Anonymousreply 65November 19, 2019 11:45 PM

I was just about to ask, how in the hell they got so rich off of just beer money, R65.

by Anonymousreply 66November 19, 2019 11:46 PM

R65

Same as us; we're very rich in a very poor country, so all and all can't complain.

by Anonymousreply 67November 19, 2019 11:52 PM

R63

I want Ernst!

by Anonymousreply 68November 20, 2019 12:02 AM

Stephanie= rode hard and put away wet.

by Anonymousreply 69November 20, 2019 12:06 AM

R68

Am going with you are referring to the younger not elder Prince Ernst.

Former is not a very well man from what one has been reading; battling throat cancer among other issues.

Besides that in his day Prince Ernst was a nasty piece of work.

by Anonymousreply 70November 20, 2019 12:08 AM

The dad R70

by Anonymousreply 71November 20, 2019 12:08 AM

Poor Charlene! There aren’t enough drugs in the world to make fucking Prince Albert an attractive proposition. You can only hope she’s getting secretly pounded by a hunky bodyguard or something.

by Anonymousreply 72November 20, 2019 12:34 AM

R72

What makes you think Princess Charlene is routinely bothered by her husband?

Prince Albert really only married under pressure to ensure the succession. His consort fulfilled that part of bargain and in spades by giving her husband a two for one deal. With an heir and spare safely delivered unless there are other reasons Princess Charlene can likely end that side of married life.

Besides everyone knows PA likes darker women, and is own father wasn't exactly a paragon of marital fidelity. PA likely has something else going on the side, or could if he wished.

Charlene's main problem is regardless of above she's stuck with PA unless willing to give up and likely never see her children again. There is now way PA would allow his children to leave Monaco, nor surrender custody. And as one of the last absolute monarchs in Europe there is little anyone could do that would force the sovereign's hand.

Charlene, Princess of Monaco has buckets of money, prestige and position. All in all not too bad for a former Olympic swimmer from South Africa, there are worse ways to make a living.

by Anonymousreply 73November 20, 2019 1:37 AM

[quote]What makes you think Princess Charlene is routinely bothered by her husband

Well, her attempted escape just days before the wedding via the Nice airport might be a clue. Wasn't she accosted/sequestered by HSH's security guards and driven right back to Monaco in time to get her into her wedding gown? You know, the one she was so grateful to be wearing that she cried tears of joy on her wedding day? She may not be "bothered" now that's she's comfortably numb, but then... Albert's own mother lived her fate. Hopefully, Charlene won't day drink and ask her kid to drive her along those curvy hillside cliffs ten years from now...

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by Anonymousreply 74November 20, 2019 1:46 AM

Charlene is very regal, and has the air of mystery.

Beatrice Borromeo is gorgeous, frightfully sophisticated. Young Princess Alexandra is coming into her own, she has a unique beauty.

by Anonymousreply 75November 20, 2019 1:56 AM

If you go down through history princess consorts in Monaco haven't always relished their lot.

One summer for light commuter reading picked up "The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace", which goes through the family from early origins until modern times. Princess Grace, nor Princess Charlene are first to be unhappy in their supposedly fairy tale land.

Cannot recall who atm, but one consort (or maybe it was her mother) moaned about how could it rain so much in such a small country.

You have to remember Monaco is not that large of a place. Thus even outside palace walls there isn't much to do unless one travels elsewhere nearby. Even Princess Grace in later years legged it to Paris often as she could.

BRF have Scotland (Balmoral) and other estates they can escape to and still remain within their own realm.

Whatever Monaco was in early to middle part of last century it has become a place where now a majority (if not near) of the populace are oily Russians, East Europeans, Middle Easterners, South Americans and others with fortunes of dubious origins.

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by Anonymousreply 76November 20, 2019 2:44 AM

R76, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, the Scottish great-grandmother of Rainier III, despised Monaco, its Prince, and the gloomy palace. While pregnant with the future Prince Louis II of Monaco, she fled to Baden-Baden, birthplace of her mother Princess Marie Amelie, and never looked back. She had the marriage annulled and married a Hungarian prince. That union produced several children, one of whom married into the princely von Fürstenberg clan.

by Anonymousreply 77November 20, 2019 3:50 AM

Not R76, but did she or her progeny survive the wars, R77?

by Anonymousreply 78November 20, 2019 5:36 AM

R78, Lady Mary Victoria died in Budapest in 1922. Her progeny, the Festetics de Tolna, survived the wars and is headed today by Georg, Fürst Festetics de Tolna. Lady Mary Victoria is buried at Festetics Palace in Hungary, a home she greatly improved and expanded during her 40-year marriage to Prince Tassilo.

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by Anonymousreply 79November 20, 2019 6:18 AM

Thank you, R79. I continue to be freaked out, not only about the esoteric knowledge of DL denizens, but its depth.

by Anonymousreply 80November 20, 2019 6:22 AM

Only on DL would a perfectly attractive billionaire be deemed not good enough for a junkie-looking AWG. Most people accept that Prince William hit the wall hard but JESUS it’s nothing compare to Andrea’s decline. Even his nose looks broken.

by Anonymousreply 81November 20, 2019 7:57 AM

R79

Yes, believe it was Lady Mary Victoria, and her mother Princess Marie Amelie, was referring to from book. Latter may have been the one who commented about all that rain. Both were miserable during brief time LMV was consort, hence the mother leaving and her daughter bolting right behind.

Was telling that Queen Victoria put her foot down on any member of her family getting mixed up with the semi royal House of Grimaldi.

Mind you in keeping with what many consider the louche ways of French, Grimaldi has more than its share of by-blows littered about. Prince Albert wasn't the first, and likely won't be last.

But then again under ancien regime kings of France acknowledged and even brought up their illegitimate children along side royals. Queens of France could do nothing about these arrangements. IIRC Louis XIV arranged for one of his bastards to marry into the RF (think it was a daughter to marry his brother), after the brother accepted ( in public at court), his mother (Anne of Austria) rose, boxed her son's ears, then withdrew.

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by Anonymousreply 82November 20, 2019 10:19 AM

More Monaco dirt...

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by Anonymousreply 83November 20, 2019 10:22 AM

Jesus Christ, even gay men tell women to smile. If Charlene doesn't want to smile, leave her alone.

by Anonymousreply 84November 20, 2019 10:23 AM

R84

Isn't so much that Charlene, Princess of Monaco doesn't smile, but has a perpetual scowl on her face. That or she looks as if whatever benzodiazepines she's on have kicked in....

by Anonymousreply 85November 20, 2019 10:31 AM

Poor woman, I feel so sorry for her. Albert looks like a controlling psycho

by Anonymousreply 86November 20, 2019 10:35 AM

Tatiana married down. Druggie Andrea is no catch. I’m somewhat nicely surprised that Caroline hasn’t gotten plastic surgery. She looks impressively wrinkled.

by Anonymousreply 87November 20, 2019 10:36 AM

Going by this picture doesn't seem to be a lot of good looking men in Grace Kelly's family.

Of the three shown I'd take a pass on each.

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by Anonymousreply 88November 20, 2019 10:51 AM

I’d be happy with either of those two Kelly cousins. Exactly my type.

by Anonymousreply 89November 20, 2019 10:54 AM

Charlene looks miserable on that balcony. I wonder if she's still regretting marrying that stuttering fool.

by Anonymousreply 90November 20, 2019 11:19 AM

Andre reminds me of Michael Bolton when he had a lot of hair.

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by Anonymousreply 91November 20, 2019 4:58 PM

[quote]Passing these two on the street, you'd never know that she is a billionaire, and he's royalty. So funny.

What do you imagine billionaires should look like when you pass them on the street? Do you expect them to flaunt their wealth like tacky, low class rappers and K-trashian whores?

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by Anonymousreply 92November 20, 2019 5:09 PM

R90

Princess Charlene is fine, and sends her love!

Long as those diazepam refills keep on coming she can cope with anything! One little pill downed with gin and ibbity, bobbity, bom! Everything in the world is fine!

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by Anonymousreply 93November 21, 2019 9:01 AM

As the sovereign heads, Albert and Charlene’s kids understandably have royal titles. Why don’t Caroline’s and Stephanie’s kids have royal titles even if it would only be an earl, baron or viscount...or whatever the French or Monegasque equivalent would be? Instead, they’re simply known by their first and last names such as Andrea Casaraghi, Louis Ducruet.

by Anonymousreply 94November 21, 2019 9:45 AM

R94, Royal titles usually descend from the male line. Since the fathers of Caroline's and Stephanie's children were commoners, they, therefore, do not have titles. The exception is Caroline's youngest, Princess Alexandra, whose father is Prince of Hanover.

The same is true with Princess Anne's children with Mark Phillips. They have no courtesy titles.

by Anonymousreply 95November 21, 2019 11:57 AM

Stephanie looks rough AF. And what’s with the ink on her hands?

by Anonymousreply 96November 21, 2019 11:28 PM

A Grimaldi group shot - Pierre's young sons Stefano and Francesco and Andrea's son Maximilian appeared on the balcony but are not shown in the photo here. It must have been time for their naps. LOL.

My God, Albert's stomach.

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by Anonymousreply 97November 22, 2019 1:49 PM

The vietnamese woman is definitely out of place.

Pierre's wife is the most beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 98November 22, 2019 6:23 PM
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