“Four hours of operation under general anesthesia”. New intervention for the Princess of Monaco in South Africa. And the prince joins her with Jacques and Gabriella
Days ago, at a meeting with the public in the Augustan heat of the Côte d’Azur, Prince Albert had a visibly worried face. And, in truth, only in the stands of the Tokyo Games as exponent of the IOC, the International Olympic Committee, the sovereign of Monaco – far from the tensions of recent months – has shown his usual determination.
The prelude, perhaps, that tense face, of the operation to which Princess Charlène for months in South Africa was subjected today. “A four-hour operation under general anesthesia,” as the office of the Princesse de Monaco at Rocher announced. The latest in a series of interventions to which his wife, former Olympic swimming champion, had to undergo. After contracting a bad infection while he was in his homeland for the rhino conservation project that for some time has been supporting the battle of his Fondation princesse Charlène to fight the plague of drowning among children.
No Corsica therefore this year for the princes of Monaco who for years have elected the island their summer retreat. And where since the birth of the twins Alberto has lived the most private summer moments, as a family, taking pictures of the twins in swaddling clothes with his mobile phone, then small children with the world to discover. Private photos that during one of the prince’s interviews with the Courier service he showed us as a proud father, like everyone.
No Corsica, but one August alongside mother Charlène who they reached in South Africa (as they did in June) during the first operations with various complications. Far from Monaco, far from the Principality which in summer shines under the worldly sun since the time of Charles III, the prince who invented the Casino and the light worldliness to revive the fortunes of his small kingdom. A worldliness brought to the apex of success by the season of Ranieri and Grace, in full post-war boom.
But Monaco is not just the prince and princess. It is the Grimaldi family – almost always the same at the helm of the small enclave for 800 years. Even if just in recent weeks the suitor of a cadet branch of the family, Louis de Causans, has returned to make claims. After already in 2019 the Paris court had given him wrong. Questioning the legitimacy of the adoption by Louis II of Monaco (the prince who served in the Foreign Legion) of his natural daughter Charlotte who had an extra-marital love. The battles between main branches and cadet branches (as also taught by the case of the House of Savoy and the various tensions with the Aosta have always been a classic in the history of the great dynasties.
A family, the Grimaldis, which means the new generations of the family of Caroline and Stephanie of Monaco. And who is squaring around Alberto to support him with his many commitments and the need to be by his wife’s side. Even Gareth, Charlène’s brother who has been leading the operational management of his foundation for some years, has come forward on several occasions (from the week of the Monda to the concert of the Red Cross) to represent Charlène who Monaco is waiting impatiently.
August 13, 2021 (change August 13, 2021 | 15:14)
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