Royal bromance… For years, the two royal perpetual celibates participated together in the official ceremonies of crowned heads. A complicity that Prince Albert II returns to the magazine Peoplein an interview published on January 17.
On June 23, 2010, the news relieved the rock. via press release, Albert II announced (finally) his engagement to South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, whom he had been dating since 2006. The long-awaited civil marriage will take place. will take place one year later on July 1, 2011, and the church wedding the following day. Something to cheer up the Monegasques who are so anxious to see their sovereign wed. It must be said that for a long time the son of Rainier III and Grace Kelly presented himself as a hardened bachelor; he’ll even confirm that he doesn’t want to “jump” before giving himself up for good.
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During this (long) period of “freedom”, however, Prince Albert had to follow protocol and attend official ceremonies alone and without a bride. Just like some… Prince Charles, also officially single (despite his unofficial fling with Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he would marry in 2005). This common status would bring the brother of Princess Caroline and Stephanie very close and the eldest son of Elizabeth II. The former still laughs about it when he thinks about it.
We were always together
Prince Albert II
a comedy of experience
“Well, we have a joke between us that has kept us laughing for years…and His Majesty will remember it very well…” Albert II begins in an interview. People , published this Tuesday, January 17th. “There was a period of a few years where we were always together… I don’t really want to call them royal events, but occasions like weddings, funerals or baptisms of other families. If there was a procession going to and from, say, a hall or a temple, or when people had to be announced, we were always together, because we were the “royal two bachelors”. An experimental comedy that greatly entertained the main stakeholders. “It became kind of a ‘Here we go again’ thing, and it happened to us so often that we laughed about it. “Oh, I see you’re here, so I guess we’ll walk down the aisle together.” You know, stuff like that. It was actually quite fun,” recalls the 64-year-old Monegasque.
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Present at Charles’s coronation
Prince Albert also took advantage of his interview People to confirm his presence at the coronation of King Charles III, which will take place on May 6 at Westminster Abbey in London. “You know, I don’t know how many coronations of the English monarch I will see in my life, so we will try to enjoy,” he says with humor. “I’m sure it will be an incredible and very exciting ceremony,” enthused the father of Jacques and Gabriella of Monaco, who described Charles III as “very patient, very educated and with a great sense of humor”. . A ceremony that Albert II will attend this time on the arm of his wife, Charlene.
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Source: Le Figaro
