In midweek, Princess Charlene of Monaco posted a group of family photos on social media, and wrote that she was happy to be reunited with her family.
The reunion was not in Monaco, Prince Albert's home, but in Princess Charlene's hometown of South Africa. Charlene returned to South Africa at the beginning of this year, which was originally just a short trip, but she has not returned to Monaco until now, and she has "separated" for thousands of miles. In addition, Albert has not stopped gossiping, so the outside world has speculated that this royal marriage is going to be over.
On August 23, there was also a headline on the front page of the gossip media with the headline "Charlene and Albert will divorce soon." Subsequently, Albert staged a thousand miles to chase his wife, Charlene showed affection, and fought back against the outside world's speculation.
But British body linguist Judy James pointedly said that from the group photo, Charlene and Albert have no emotional bond at all. Even when the two people are hugging each other, Judy says, "Their eyes seem to be staring at another camera, which is more like posing for a photo than something really intimate." ”
In another group photo, Judy even said that Charlene made her see the sadness, "Albert II's smile here is more convincing than hers." The corners of his eyes were slightly wrinkled, the corners of his mouth were upturned, and the corners of his mouth evoked a symmetrical smile. Charlene's eyes show sadness in both poses, and although she is smiling, the corners of her mouth are slightly downward, suggesting mixed emotions. In Charlene and the two children, Judy said they were intimate.
Although not as striking as the British royal family, Charlene and Albert's love marriage has always been the focus of gossip. Princess Charlene herself is a lot of stories, athletes, beautiful, three times before marriage "escape", today the turtle will bring you the prince and the scumbag series.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > swimmer</h1>
Born in 1978 in the tropical african country of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Charlene Wittstock is a mixed-race german, British, and Irish descent. Dad is a salesman, Mom is a swimming coach, and family affairs are quite mundane. In 1989, Charlene's family moved to South Africa.
Under the influence of her mother, Charlene practiced swimming from an early age, and her talent was quite good plus she worked very hard and practiced results. In 1999, in the national competition in South Africa, Charlene won three gold medals and one silver medal and became famous in one fell swoop.
As a result, she was also given the opportunity to represent South Africa in the women's 4*100m relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and eventually helped the team finish fifth. Although he did not win a medal, he was able to reach the Olympic final and get the ranking, which was also quite excellent.
Since then, Charlene has also represented South Africa in various international competitions, but none of them have achieved outstanding results. In 2008, Charlene had planned to participate in the Beijing Olympics, ending her swimming career perfectly, but after an 18-month suspension due to a shoulder injury, Charlene's preparation was greatly affected, and she did not qualify.
Swimmers are generally very slender and have beautiful curves, and Charlene is no exception. Coupled with the superior face and cold personality of Charlize Theron brought by the mixed-race genes, Charlene has won the titles of "Iceberg Beauty" and "Mermaid".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="162" meet Prince Albert II > swimming competition</h1>
In 2000, Charlene competed in the swimming competition in Monte Carlo, Monaco, where she won gold in the 50m backstroke. Albert II was the guest of honor at that competition, and he had a long glance at Charlene, but because of the occasion, he only had a short contact. However, Albert II was very impressed with Charlene and began to pay attention.
The following year, Charlene came to Monte Carlo again to compete, and once again "deceived" Albert II, so Albert began a passionate pursuit of Charlene and invited her to dinner. Charlene was flattered and did not expect it at all, and now went to buy a dress for the appointment. Albert II took Charlene's candlelit dinner and visited Monaco, which was not romantic.
Although the environment of the two people's upbringing seems to be very different, Albert II loves sports, has represented Monaco in three Winter Olympic Games, and has also been president of the swimming federation since then, which has given him and Charlene a lot of common language.
Coupled with the fact that Albert II was 42 years old at the time, a veteran of the love scene, there must be a routine, and Charlene, who was in her early 20s, soon fell and began to date Albert II. During their love affair, Albert II was undoubtedly spoiled for Charlene, and the two often attended events sweetly, and the media often filmed the scenes of their love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="163" > sweet engagement ushered in the bastard scandal</h1>
Albert II was over 40 years old when he began to fall in love, but after the two were together, they began a long-distance love run, and they were not in a hurry to get married until 2010, 9 years after falling in love, Albert II successfully proposed to Charlene.
In order to marry into the royal family, Charlene bid farewell to her hometown of South Africa, left the familiar environment, and even changed her faith from protestant to Roman Catholicism, perhaps believing that her love affair with Albert could overcome everything.
What about Albert II? He proposed a "pigeon egg" to Charlene, followed by a big "surprise". After the engagement, the media broke the news that Albert II had an illegitimate child of no more than 1 year old. And this is not the first time Albert II has been approached by an illegitimate child.
During the love affair with Charlene, a French flight attendant son came to the door and said that the child was the illegitimate son of Albert II, who could not avoid it, but could only do a paternity test and confirm it to be true. Later, a real estate agent from the United States came to the door and said that she was the illegitimate daughter of Albert II. "Good things come in pairs".
So many things are really only 0 times and 100 times, the first two times were exposed to bastards, Albert II coaxed Charlene, and even proposed successfully, but the third bastard broke out, Charlene was deeply shocked, wanted to break the marriage contract, but how can the royal family be willing.
The Monaco royal family had wanted to use this wedding to recreate the world-famous scene when Albert II's mother, Grace Kelly, got married, and pulled the Monaco royal family back to the stage, which was about to be found out.
In the past few decades, the British royal family has had unlimited scenery with the wedding of the century between Diana and Princess Kate, and now Monaco also has a beautiful civilian princess and a "fairy tale" love story, how can she let her go.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="164" > runaway bride try to escape</h1>
Although she knew that it was impossible to dissolve the marriage contract, Charlene still did not want to marry, so she became a "runaway bride" and "escaped" three times.
For the first time, she took the opportunity to try on a wedding dress in Paris and fled to the South African Embassy in Paris to seek asylum, hoping to return to South Africa. Persuaded by Albert II. The royal family did not recognize the third illegitimate son.
The second time was three weeks later, Charlene escaped at the F1 competition, but she was intercepted by the royal family at the airport in Nice, France, which confiscated her passport and wanted to imprison her in the royal palace.
The last time to "escape" was a few days before the big wedding, and there was no chance to escape, and Charlene, who had snatched her passport, came to the airport and wanted to fly back to South Africa, this time maybe she was the closest to freedom, but she was finally stopped.
According to the French "Voici" magazine, Charlene obediently returned to get married because of a secret agreement: as long as she gave birth to an heir to the throne, she could get a divorce and get $500 million in alimony, equivalent to half of the prince's property. Illegitimate children had no right to inherit, so Albert II needed a palace to pass on for himself.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="165" > Charlene's Tearful Century Wedding</h1>
On July 1, 2011, the two-day wedding celebration began. The next day, a traditional wedding religious ceremony was held at the Monaco Royal Palace, in which Charlene wore a white wedding dress.
Designed by Armani, the off-the-shoulder design of the wedding dress is set with more than 20,000 pearls and 40,000 Swarovski crystals, and the embroidery pattern on it took 700 hours to create in platinum. The tail part of the wedding dress is nearly 5 meters long, very delicate, and takes 100 hours to complete.
It took 2500 hours to make this wedding dress, even if you don't eat, drink or sleep, it takes 104 days to make it 24 hours a day, which is extremely luxurious.
The wedding was also full of big names, with then-Olympic Committee President Rogge, fashion legend Carl Lagerfeld and wedding designer George Armani.
Monaco has spent nearly 100 million yuan on this wedding, so of course it has to be broadcast live in real time like the British, and you can't lose. But the world did not see fairy tales.
Charlene cried for a long time at the wedding scene, not knowing whether she was touched by some new promises of Albert II or her irrepressible sadness that she was about to enter the shackles of the royal family.
After the wedding, their honeymoon was held in South Africa, and during the honeymoon, the DNA report of the prince's illegitimate son was also out... The result was not made public, but it was another scar for Charlene.
The two have not been pregnant with children since they got married, Morocco is in a hurry, Albert II has run to 60, there is no crown prince, plus Charlene is originally an outsider, so Charlene was snubbed.
But three years later, Charlene gave birth to a lovely dragon and phoenix fetus for the royal family. If according to the secret agreement at the time, Charlene could divorce after giving birth to the child, but this time she did not run away, stayed, educated the children, and accompanied Albert II to the event.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="166" > rebel shaved head refused to go home</h1>
After having children, the family of four looks harmonious, and the fairy tale looks like it is about to come true. But reality always strikes hard when people think everything is going to be okay.
In 2020, another illegitimate child's lawsuit found Albert II, and the illegitimate child was born during the love affair between the two. When she attended the event at the end of the year, Charlene changed her previous dignified elegance and shaved all her hair on one side, which was quite punk rebellious.
The media said it was a silent protest and she had had enough. (Princess Bella's inverted triangle bangs hairstyle in this group photo does not know whether it is imitating her mother)
Charlene has spent most of her time in South Africa this year and has not returned to Monaco until now. She and Albert II were last seen together in January.
In March, Charlene returned to South Africa because of her foundation's opposition to poaching, which was originally a ten-day journey, but in the end Charlene was unable to fly long distances because she fell ill and stayed in South Africa for treatment.
During Charlene's time in South Africa, Albert II was a single parent with a baby, attending the event with only a pair of children and other members of the royal family. In June, Albert II took the babies to South Africa to see Charlene, but Charlene did not return.
In July this year, the 10th anniversary of the two people's marriage, the two are still thousands of miles apart, the royal family released a two-minute short film, reviewing the love story of the two, Charlene also sent an ins commemoration. Thousands of miles apart, we must also create an atmosphere of love as before.
In August, the royal family said that Charlene had undergone a four-hour operation, and the reason for it was not revealed.
But after such a long time of not returning home and the punk style before, Charlene's negative opinions among the Monegasque people have increased, and Stéphane Bearn, an expert in the Monaco royal family, said in the latest Paris Match newspaper article that the people of Monaco were getting more and more angry with their out-of-control princess, and Charlene's mood fluctuated to everything about her appearance, and they were criticizing. Her luster is being worn away.
Her sad look was considered haggard. Disappointed Monaco said her anger, her whimsical emotions, were as changeable as her hair.
In addition to these, the outside world has also speculated, are these two going to leave? Is the negotiated marriage finally coming to an end? Some media speculated that the physical reason was just an excuse for Charlene not to want to return to the royal family.
Some time ago, Albert II's aunt who lived in Vienna also revealed to the Italian media that Albert II has been exhausted by this marriage, and he is unable to return to this marriage, and he does not want to pretend to be a marriage that looks like a god.
However, the outside world has been rumored, the royal family has been debunking rumors, this time Albert II went to South Africa to chase his wife, I believe it is also a force to break the rumors of marriage change.
Last week, Charlene said in an interview that this is the longest time she has been away from Europe and would like to spend time with her children, but because of a serious sinus infection, a long flight will cause ear problems, so she will stay in South Africa until October, but she does not know whether Charlene is really willing to go back at that time.
Legend has it that Monaco has a curse that the Monaco royal family under the Grimardi family will not have a perfect love for 700 years. Albert II's mother, Grace Kelly, who is equally brilliant as Charlene, was also betrayed by her husband after marrying into the royal family, but she also chose to be patient and be a good mother and a good princess.
Grace Kelly, who has been imprisoned for half a lifetime, said Monaco looks like a paradise from the outside, but it is also a prison. But in fact, the royal family is the "prison", Diana was also in love with Charles with a vision, but she did not know that she was just a rational choice of the royal family, and all they needed was a decent princess.
Charlene grew up in Africa, with vast grasslands and seas, but the area of only 2.08 square kilometers monaco is too small.