They appeared smiling on the terrace of a café located near the Gare de l'Est in Paris. In mid-March,
Paris Match
revealed photos of Charlotte Casiraghi and the writer Nicolas Mathieu, accomplices in the streets of the capital. The magazine thus confirmed the rumors of a romance, launched by
Here
at the end of February. For some time, the daughter of Caroline of Monaco and the author, winner of the 2018 Goncourt Prize, “would no longer leave each other”.
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At the beginning of March, the writer was already talking about love on the set of the show
La Grande Librairie
, without mentioning the name of the lucky lady. “In a love story, at the start, we seek to agree, in the musical sense of the term, that is to say to play, not on the same melody, but on the same tone,” he declared. To agree, you have to get in tune with definitions, with vocabulary, with pet names. It’s a bit ridiculous but that’s how it starts.”
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“The magic happened”
Passionate about literature, Charlotte Casiraghi has a lot in common with the novelist. She notably founded the Monaco Philosophical Meetings in 2015 and published the book
Archipel des passions
. Her romance with Nicolas Mathieu is one that we didn't see coming, pointed out
here
at the end of February. According to the magazine, the author of
Their children after them,
who claims his left-wing sensibilities, “at first glance did not have the profile to seduce a member of the Monegasque court”. “And yet: the magic worked between them,” said the media.
Before continuing: “It is in Paris that they often meet, for special moments together, before returning to their respective children.” A city that Charlotte Casiraghi particularly likes. The distance between the French capital and Los Angeles, where her former companion Dimitri Rassam regularly works, would also be the reason for their breakup, which occurred in December 2023. The thirty-year-old has in fact maintained a seven-year relationship with the producer of Les
Trois Musketeers
(2023).
A discreet idyll
Over the years, most of the romances experienced by Charlotte Casiraghi have taken the general public by surprise. Her romance with Dimitri Rassam, made official on the 2018 César red carpet, is no exception to the rule. Under the photographers' flashes, the thirty-year-old then appears resplendent in a floral dress by Saint Laurent. On his arm, the producer of
Prénom
(2012), son of Carole Bouquet, opted for an elegant black tuxedo. We later learned that the thirty-year-old met him during the Cannes Film Festival in May 2017.
From then on, the couple was very discreet. We will barely see him at the traditional Rose Ball, the same year, or on the balcony of the princely palace, on the occasion of the National Day of Monaco, in 2022. “There is something in France very particular, perhaps a little crumbling, which is the public space and then the domain of the intimate, the private, confided Dimitri Rassam in
What a time!
, in April 2023. And it’s true that, beyond being modest, I like to mark the border between the two.”
Albert II's speech
For her wedding to Dimitri Rassam, Charlotte Casiraghi wore an ivory-colored Chanel strapless dress and a Cartier necklace, which belonged to her grandmother Grace Kelly. (Monaco, June 1, 2019.) Félix Dol-Maillot
On October 23, 2018, the couple welcomed a son, Balthazar. The following year, he said “yes” as part of a civil marriage in Monaco, at the beginning of June, then a religious union at Sainte-Marie de Pierredon Abbey. An event during which the speech of Albert II, Charlotte Casiraghi's uncle, turns out to be "crying with emotion". Together, Dimitri Rassam and his partner enjoy five years of cloudless romance.
A “wonderful wife”
“I am very proud of my wife but somehow, we never want to be reduced to that,” he explains in
What a time!
. It is very important but once again I do not think I am very original in this matter. I am very lucky to have a wonderful wife and equally wonderful children (
he is also the father of a daughter, Dasha, born from his relationship with the model Masha Novoselova in 2011, Editor's note
).” However, the producer is missing during Monaco's National Day, in November 2023.
For some time now, the couple has been going through “a crisis”, as reported
Here
, at the end of January. “Dimitri, who has become one of the biggest French producers, spends his time working,” says an anonymous source. They had no family life, it was heavy for her.” Charlotte Casiraghi's husband indeed spends a large part of his time across the Atlantic. So much so that the couple would have ended up breaking up, in December 2023. Princess Caroline's daughter thus draws a line under one of her longest love stories.
Youthful loves
Princess Caroline of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi and Félix Winckler attend the International Jumping of Monte-Carlo. (June 23, 2006.) Abaca
Long before Dimitri Rassam, there was the Austrian Count Hubertus Herring von Frankensdorf. Charlotte Casiraghi, then aged 16, experienced her first publicized romance there. Between the teenager and the future creator of Denevolux Austria, a brand of compression stockings, the love lasted two years, from 2002 to 2004. That year, Charlotte Casiraghi left him for Félix Winckler, son of a Belgian lawyer . The slender young man with brown mane and his partner were seen very close in June 2006, in the stands of the Monaco International Jumping.
At the time, they were immortalized whispering in each other's ears, laughing out loud or going shopping. However, the story ends after three years. During the summer of 2007, Charlotte Casiraghi crossed paths with a certain Alexander Dellal. Son of the Anglo-Iranian businessman Guy Dellal and the Brazilian model Andrea de Magalhaes Viera, he is also the brother of Alice Dellal, then partner of Pierre Casiraghi. It was through this that Charlotte Casiraghi met him.
Gallerist in London, Alexander Dellal is the godson of fashion photographer Mario Testino. Soon, he formalized his relationship with Charlotte Casiraghi, and went with her to the Rose Ball in 2009. He also attended the wedding of Charlene and Albert II of Monaco. But in January 2012,
Hello!
reveals in an article (since deleted) that their romance was shattered. In the meantime, Charlotte Casiraghi would have met a certain Gad Elmaleh.
“Monakech”
Gad Elmaleh and Charlotte Casiraghi participate in the festivities as part of the wedding of Pierre Casiraghi and Beatrice Borromeo. (Angera, August 1, 2015.) Abaca
In December 2011, the thirty-year-old, then in a relationship with Alexander Dellal, met the comedian through a friend. “Charlotte was there, I fell in love,” Gad Elmaleh simply recounts in
Paris Match
, in 2021. To conquer her, the latter relies on his greatest asset. “There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music,” he continues in the columns of the magazine. As I am not a great pianist, I turned to humor.
A disconcerting romance, which is however not impossible. Charlotte Casiraghi is in fact “involved for her country but without having a princely title”, which “makes things easier”, indicates Gad Elmaleh. Charlotte Casiraghi ends her relationship with Alexander Dellal. And formalized her relationship with the comedian in 2013, on the occasion of the Rose Ball. The same year, Gad Elmaleh and his partner welcomed, on December 17, 2013, a little boy named Raphaël - a “monakech” mix (
a mix of Monaco and Marrakech, Editor's note
),” jokes his father.
Game over
Within the couple, humor is always appropriate. Like when the actor makes his partner believe that her mother will wear a tiara in honor of her, the day they meet. In 2019, Gad Elmaleh looks back on his first steps within the princely palace in Le
Parisien
. “Of course, the first time you go to the palace, you call your friends and when you bring your mother, you are afraid that she will make a mistake, but then you digest it,” he relates. You see that you are dealing with people who respect you, who love you and with whom I always have good relationships.”
To the point that his mother-in-law Caroline of Monaco even came to see his show. In 2015, Charlotte Casiraghi and the comedian attended the wedding of Pierre Casiraghi and Beatrice Borromeo together. However, in the middle of the year, rumors circulated about an alleged separation. During his tour of the United States at the end of 2015, Gad Elmaleh confirmed these speculations. He claims on stage that he is single again, because his partner left him.
Charlotte Casiraghi finds love again in the arms of a certain Lamberto Sanfelice, an Italian director. And lives a sunny story in Rome, where she moves with her son Raphaël. The romance ended in September 2016, before her meeting with Dimitri Rassam. But it is now with the writer Nicolas Mathieu that Charlotte Casiraghi would share her life. Faithful to her immutable discretion, she nevertheless wrote in a column published by
Madame Figaro
, after her breakup with Gad Elmaleh: “Let us leave room for chance, for passion, for secrecy, for uncertainty, for encounters, for “welcome otherness, what opens life to new opportunities and possibilities.”