On June 23, 2010, the news relieved the Rock: by means of a press release, Albert II announced (finally) his engagement with Charlene Wittstock, a South African swimmer whom he had been dating since 2006. The long-awaited civil marriage would take place one year later on July 1, 2011, and the church wedding the following day.
Something to delight the Monegasques who are so impatient to see their sovereign wedded.
It must be said that for a long time, the son of Rainier III and Grace Kelly presented himself as a hardened bachelor;
he will even affirm that he does not want to “leapfrog” before committing himself for good.
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During this (long) time of “freedom”, Prince Albert, however, had to comply with protocol and go alone and without a fiancée to official ceremonies.
In the same way as a certain … prince Charles, officially also single (despite his unofficial adventure with Camilla Parker Bowles, the one he will end up marrying in 2005).
This common status would have brought the brother of the princesses Caroline and Stephanie and the eldest son of Elizabeth II very close.
The first still laughs about it, when he thinks about it.
We were always together
Prince Albert II
rehearsal comedy
"Well, we have a joke between us which then made us laugh for years... and His Majesty will remember it very well...", begins Albert II in an interview with
People
, published this Tuesday, January 17.
"There was a period for several years when we were always together at...I don't really want to call them royal events, but at occasions like weddings, funerals or christenings of other families royal.
If there was a procession going in and out of, say, a hall or a cathedral, or when people had to be announced, we were always together because we were 'the two bachelors of royalty'”.
A rehearsal comedy that greatly amused the main interested parties.
"It became a sort of 'Here we go again!' thing, and it happened to us so often that we laughed about it.
"Oh, I see you're there, so I guess we'll end up going down the
Princes Charles and Albert at the wedding of then-Prince Felipe and Letizia Ortiz.
(Madrid, May 22, 2004.) Getty Images
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Present at Charles' coronation
Prince Albert also took advantage of his interview in
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 an English monarch I'll see in my life, so we'll try to enjoy it," he says humorously.
“I am certain that it will be an incredible and very moving ceremony, enthuses in advance the father of Jacques and Gabriella of Monaco, who describes Charles III as “a very patient, very educated man who has a great sense of 'humor".
A ceremony which Albert II will attend this time, on the arm of his wife, Charlene.
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