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A love born under the sign of sport, the one between Alberto and Charlene of Monaco, husband and wife since 2011. Galeotti were the Sydney Olympics, where their eyes met for the first time, but also i Olympic Games in Turin in 2006.
For love to blossom, however, it takes a little more effort. Bewitched by the magnetic gaze and the statuesque physique of the swimmer, the Prince decides to join her at the Mare Nostrum in Montecarlo to pay homage to her with a bouquet of flowers, deserved after the triumph in 200 back. And it’s not over yet.
12 months have passed since that last meeting on the podium, but Alberto does not give up and courts her in a restaurant, where they meet by chance. The Prince doesn’t think twice and invites her to dinner, but this time it’s Charlene who backs off. In the end – accept the flattery of Alberto and goes out with him. The evening goes beyond all expectations and ends in the apartments of the future princess, but only for a romantic moment as Charlene later told Point Du Vue: “I didn’t know what to expect, but we weren’t alone. One of his assistants made a coffee and we admired the city from above ”.
They love each other in secret for five years, until their first public release in 2006 – for Turin Olympics – when they decide to come out and walk the streets of the Italian city hand in hand.
Charlene’s closeness to the royal family is getting closer, especially after the final retirement from swimming caused by a serious shoulder injury. The marriage is announced on June 23, 2010, with the future princess converting to Catholicism. They get married, with a civil and religious ceremony, on 1 and 2 July 2011.
The civil ceremony takes place at the Throne Room of Prince’s Palace of Monaco, with Donald Christopher Le Vine – grandson of Grace Kelly – to be a witness. For the religious rite, on the other hand, it is necessary to wait just 24 hours, for the celebrations in front of the archbishop of Munich. Here, Charlene appears quite tense and lowers her head to hide the copious tears that gush from her eyes. Alberto comes to her rescue with a handkerchief but no one has escaped the prince’s reproachful attitude.
From that moment, a series of hypotheses about the Charlene’s future and about his life within the royal family. Will he ever be happy? According to rumors, His Serene Highness he would have tried to escape three times, after having discovered the existence of Alberto’s two illegitimate children, Jazmin Grace and Alexandre. For this reason, then, she would have been bound by a pre-marital contract, which was later denied: “It was all so heavy, there was a lot of emotion because of these rumors, the tension built up and I burst into tears. I started crying mostly because I thought ‘Oh no, the whole world is watching me cry’ ”.
Charlene struggles to make her way through the Monegasque people, who do not recognize Grace Kelly’s grace and charisma in her. The heirs to the throne keep waiting, feeding the rumors of an alleged sterility, but when the pregnancy is announced, everyone’s joy is irrepressible. Jacques and Gabriella were born in December 2014.
The arrival of the twins returns the smile to the Princess, who feels closer to her husband and supports him both in an institutional and personal sphere. The two seem to have found the serenity of the early years, only recently marred by Charlene’s decision to fly to South Africa. And don’t go back to Munich. The rumors of a possible divorce are becoming more and more insistent, but the princess thought about putting a stop to this gossip, defining her husband as her only “point of reference”.
The return home seems to be getting further and further away. Struck by a severe ear infection, Charlene was operated on three times on the brain and therefore unable to get back on the road. The Prince he is planning his trip to reach her with the children.
