Princess of Monaco Charlene - the wife of Prince Albert II

For sure, Charlene Whittstock, like all the girls, dreamed of a prince on a white horse as a child. And her dream came true. Today she is Princess of Monaco. Charlene had no honor to be born into a noble family, but fate decreed that she became the princess of one of the richest states in the world.

Biography

Charlene, Princess of Monaco, was born on the African continent in Zimbabwe in 1978. Her parents were from Europe and professed the Catholic religion. Father Michael C. Whittstock was a manager in a computer company, and Lynette Wittstock's mother was a swimming instructor. As soon as her daughter began to walk, her mother taught her how to swim and worked with her for a long time. By the age of 18, the girl already had many sports awards. By this time, their family moved to live in South Africa, and Charlene won the title of champion of the country in swimming. Four years later she was a member of the national team of her country participated in the Olympics in Sydney, but without special results (5 th place). In 2000, during competitions in Monaco, she met Prince Albert, the heir to the throne, and in 2002 Charlene became the world champion in swimming. The second meeting with Albert, who by this time already became the prince of Monaco, was held in 2006, at the opening of the Olympic Games in Italy. Four years later they officially announced their engagement. The following year Charlene lived in Monaco. She started studying French and even a monaque dialect. The best instructors in etiquette honed the manners of the future princess. After all, she was to become the first person in the principality, to receive royal guests from all over the world, to appear in many social receptions, etc. A year after the engagement, the future princess of Monaco Charlene, along with Prince Albert of the Grimaldi clan, appeared at the wedding ceremony of the British crown prince William and Kate Middleton. Two months later, and again a wedding. This time the whole aristocratic world gathered at a wedding in Monaco.

Marriage

On the day of the wedding, the future eleventh Princess of Monaco Charlene at age 33 looked like a real princess: elegant, seasoned and charming. Many compared her to Grace Kelly, her deceased mother-in-law, Albert's mother. Nevertheless, the most observant viewers could notice that the beautiful Princess Charlaine of Monaco (pictured in the article) was somewhat depressed and did not look happy at all. The fact is that her new husband, who is also 20 years older than her, is very loving.

During the years of his bachelor life, he managed to patronize such secular lionesses as Brooks Shild, Claudia Schiffer and others. In addition, he is the father of two illegitimate children who were subsequently adopted by him. But this is nothing: just before the wedding, he had a third child, whose mother demanded that the prince surrender the DNA test. Having learned about this details from the life of the groom, the future princess of Monaco Charlene tried to escape from the crown. However, for the sake of respect for decency and not to discredit the world of the name of the family Grimaldi, she returned and with a heavy heart went under the crown.

Just as sadly they spent their honeymoon, which was interrupted due to Alber's surrender of DNA analysis. Nevertheless, the prince and the princess constantly publicly confess each other in love, and Charlene tells the press about her dream - to give birth to the prince of the heir. However, for two and a half years she can not become pregnant, and this can lead to a break in their relationship.