When Charlene Wittstock tried to leave Nice airport last weekend to head back home to South Africa, she had her passport confiscated. Yep. The French government refused to let her board her flight to South Africa and confiscated the passport so Prince Albert's people could have a little talk with her. It turns out she found out Albert has a third love child. She knew about the other two, but he has a third that happened since they have been together. If I am the South African government I would be complaining to the French right now.
That picture above is not hand holding, it is I am taking you with me.
Get that passport back and GO, girl.
ReplyDeleteThat does seem like an abuse of power. And not that long ago it might have started a war.
ReplyDeleteFind an independent reporter, get your story out and then GET OUT!!!
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope this is not true and is just tabloid rumors.
ReplyDeleteIt would actually be kidnapping.
I just read a profile about her the other day, they've been together for forever. If I remember right, he bought her a really nice apt (I think in South Africa???), and she's just been kind of sitting around waiting to get married for 10 (I think) years.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had paid attention to dates now, but she's an Olympic swimmer that he met at the (2000?) Games. He's got multiple kids from different flings, I think the acknowledged ones are 6 and 9 years old.
I guess my point is, she's had time to know what she was getting into. I don't know if I believe all of this story.
And I still think he's gay, lol.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, if all this true, I hope she leaves and finds someone better. And what the hell is she wearing around her neck?
Run girl, Run....
ReplyDeletetheir body languages in the recent photos of them tells all the story i need. run, don't walk, girl. RUN!
ReplyDeleteAlbert went from being the Royal Gay with all the celebrity beards to being the Royal baby daddy, which leads me to believe either these are NOT his kids OR he plays for both teams. Well he needs to acknowledge one of those kids otherwise Caroline's son will inherit the Monaco throne.
ReplyDeleteok, I don't care how much time she had to figure out he was a jerk...he is basically holding her hostage and (please forgive the upcoming Jenn moment but) that is NOT COOL!
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of scary. What century do we live in here? I hope she gets out of this ok. Sell your story & run!
ReplyDeleteThis is getting really ugly really fast.
ReplyDeleteIf true, this is beyond f'd up. Scary.
ReplyDeleteI still dont understand how freakin GRACE KELLY could have a kid that looks like this. ewwww
ReplyDelete(yes, my comment is brought to you by the word 'superficial' today, lolol)
I DO feel sorry for her btw
ReplyDeletePity she didn't go straight to the SA consulate and get a replacement passport, or grab a car, drive to Italy and get one. Poor girl; she's got a hard road ahead of her.
ReplyDelete@Jasmine -- you've been gone for a couple of days, but I definitely echoed your same sentiments a day or so ago. :-) Superficial, but TRUE.
ReplyDeleteSooooo...she's being virtually imprisoned. What is this, some kind of effed-up fairy tale?! Is he going to construct a highly-guarded tower and lock her away in it? Will he command his serfs to dig a moat so he can fill it with crocodiles?
RUN LIKE THE WIND, CHARLENE.
And I'd like to think that his mother would bitchslap his ugly, hairless head.
awww..finally true love ! :D haha
ReplyDeleteI've read his father Rainier married Grace only because Aristotle Onassis (who really ran the Monaco casino operation) insisted he marry a Hollywood star to add glamor to the dump (it worked.) Who's got Albert so scared now, the Russian mob? If the bride's passport has to be confiscated to get her to stay, isn't that humiliating for him? is it true that if the Grimaldi family doesn't hatch an heir, the French government eventually takes over Monaco?
ReplyDeleteooooh. i was just wondering who could "claim" the throne.
ReplyDeleteYou're in danger girl!!!
ReplyDeleteWiki says they know each other since 2000, but became an item about 2006, so two of his kids where born prior to their relationship.
ReplyDeleteAlso Albert's sisters and their children can inherit the throne since 2002. Their constitution was changed and France ratificated it, so no need for Albert to have direct heir for not loosing independence to France
that's some weird psycho ish right there...i hope she got the hell out asap.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to be a princess but not like that.
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ReplyDeleteAnyone interested should check out French model Karen Mulder and her accusations against Prince Albert. Seriously sketch stuff.
ReplyDeleteAlbert has many issues, including the fact that he's quite dumb. When he was in junior high with a class of other Monegasques, the teachers had to change his grades because they were very low. He wouldn't have passed in the superior grade, were it not for these changes.
ReplyDeleteThen, he has difficulties speaking in front of an audience. Not simply stuttering, he just stops for a few seconds, unable to speak. Just in case, an assistant gives him a glass of water. He drinks it very slowly then he's able to resume talking.
It's quite common knowledge in France that Albert plays for both teams. We actually thought he was gay before the first child out of wedlock was revealed.
Other gossip on Monaco?
* the monarchy has always been a complete joke. Three or four generations ago, the prince died without an heir. France was supposed to recover the country at this time but they're not interested because it allows them to keep a tax haven under indirect control while the investments would go in another haven, should Monaco not exist. So, what did they do? They found that the prince had a child with an "art model" abroad.
* Princesse Grace de Monaco had developed before her death some kind of interest for occultism, more precisely the Order of the Solar Temple, a sect which committed two mass suicides/murders a decade later.
* It is rumored that Princesse Grace had let her daughter Stéphanie drive the car when she had her fatal accident. Which would explain how much of a nutjob Stéphanie turned into (cocaine, marriage with two former bodyguards, including one who was formerly fishmonger and was framed by a stripper working with an Italian tabloid in a sex tape.
I hope it's like this. It's the day of the wedding. The bride, beautiful in her white dress, walks down the aisle with her gauzy veil. Finally she reaches the handsome (*barf*) prince, who gently lifts her veil..... and reveals CHARLIZE THERON!!! Charlize, in her South African accent, snarls "this is for my homegirl," and issues him the five fingered death punch. The guests gasp in shock. She quickly rifles through his jacket as he lies there limp, grabs and stashes Charlene's passport down her bra. Winking at an expressionless Karl Lagerfeld, she vaults over a few guests, toward the water and escapes on a high-powered motorboat. Meanwhile, Charlene has been smuggled out of the country and gives her first interview to Enty. And everybody lives happily ever after, except for his royal jerkness. The end!
ReplyDeleteHe's not gay. He dated one of my close friends years ago when she was in college. (A U.S. socialite with extremely fair skin and near-platinum hair -- he definitely has a type.) He might be bi, I wouldn't know.
ReplyDeleteC. Willingham -- fantastique! *Great* movie idea!
ReplyDeleteI just realized that's why Albert didn't go to a French university -- he couldn't pass the "bachot" exam (*very* tough). Amherst probably did one of their trustees a favor and let him in and he just poached there (a la Dubya at Yale) for 4 years. WHY is he so willing to make a fool of himself to let this marriage happen? Is he afraid she'll write a book or something? The good news is that this information (getting her passport taken away to keep her in check) is public knowledge; unlike his parents, Albert can't pretend to have The Perfect Catholic Marriage.
Wow, this turned from salacious smut to a creepy hostage situation in the course of about 3 days. Very bad form, Prince Albert. Now get back in your can.
ReplyDeleteThis is some creepy ish. He's rich. Can't he find a woman who would be with him for the money and a pre-determined understanding? Holding that poor woman hostage? JUST NO!
ReplyDeleteI'm also going to wade into the superficial pool and say that Albert is very unattractive.
ReplyDeleteI've seen interviews with Prince Rainier and he was very charming.
OK Charlene, here's what you do at the civil ceremony tomorrow. You're in the mayor's ceremonial room sitting on a gilt chair with Albert (meh) next to you. The mayor asks you if you agree to the marriage. You just say "non." You'll be wearing a weeny hat, so it should be easy to channel Nancy Reagan. Just say "non." Then get up, start walking, keep walking and get the @#$T% outta Dodge. Please. Get across the border to Italy, then home to SA, dig potatoes, learn to type, whatever.
ReplyDeleteWhooooa, Angela, I had to pinch myself and hit "refresh" to make sure I didn't fall asleep while on break and dream/hallucinate your post. That is some juicy, detailed stuff. It's a great read!
ReplyDeleteOrder of the Solar Temple, really? They're kind of a local legend in the California Mojave Desert communities. Lotsa crazy stories about their creepy desert-compound antics.
And I remember those "Princess Stephanie was driving" rumors when I was a kid. (My mom was a Grace Kelly fan.)
@Ida- While I was gone it's good to know similar thoughts are being echoed here on CDAN.
ReplyDeleteWe are like the tweedledee and tweedledum of this site.
:-P
Damn, I had alwas thought he was gay. I had no idea he was Prince Pimp! With multiple baby mamas, holding women against their will, and the disregard for law, all he needs is a velvet suit and and a grill ala flava flav!
ReplyDelete@Jasmine -- "We are like the tweedledee and tweedledum of this site."
ReplyDeleteIt's TRUE. I grew up an only child (and so did you, right?), but now I'm thinking we're actually twins who were involved in some wacky hospital mix-up, and our parents never told us because it would have been too bewildering and incomprehensible.
Or something.
<3 you. :-)
That picture is really creepy ! He's definitely not holding hands - like Enty says - he's taking her, Run, girl, run ! Let Caroline's kids become the heirs !
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ReplyDeleteThe grades stuff comes from a former IRS French inspector who had been detached to Monaco and found it completely ridiculous.
The loss of voice was shown on TV a few years ago. Apparently, it had been censored for years and it was part of the "healing" process to admit he had this problem.
And he doesn't have a type for platinum blondes. One of his illegitimate children has a mother from Togo. He's just not very bright.
I was partly wrong about the inheritance thing. Louis II didn't have any legitimate child and they accepted a daughter he had with a shady mistress, legitimated as Charlotte de Monaco, because it was 1911 and the last thing the French wanted was to have a German prince (the real legitimate heir) in Monaco. So, they changed the rules. We're very good at finding obscure laws or changing existing stuff to settle dynastic quarrels (it was the cause of the Hundred Years War with England).
The sect stuff with Grace de Monaco isn't quite established. A few weeks before her death, she had shot a few scenes for an unfinished movie that had some connections with guys from the sect.
And, apparently, she was driving the car on the day she died. She had a stroke driving and drove the car out of the road. Her daughter had serious psychological trauma after the accident, which, in addition to the genes shared with Albert, might explain her dalliances with shady guys like Daniel Ducruet (the husband who was shot boinking Belgian stripper Fily Houteman)
"And he doesn't have a type for platinum blondes. One of his illegitimate children has a mother from Togo. He's just not very bright."
ReplyDeleteI don't get what his intelligence level has to do with his selection of lady friends. Only dummies date African women? I simply don't understand.
It's unfortunate, because I was into what you were writing until that MESS. Think before you type.
Prince Albert was good in The Social Network. That was one of my favorite scenes in the movie. I started UMASS/Amherst two years after he graduated Amherst. I was disappointed I wasn't there the same time as him. Of course now is another story.
ReplyDeletelol Ida
ReplyDelete<3 you too
p.s. Only children rock!
E. DuBois, when i read Angela's comments re Albert and his intelligence, or lack thereof, i didn't think she connected that to his relationship with the woman from Togo even though one sentence immediately followed the other. I think it could almost be a refrain since it's one of his most outstanding characteristics: Albert is a playboy. Albert is dumb. Albert is barely educated. Albert is dumb. Albert is bi. Albert is dumb. Albert is creepy. Albert is dumb. Albert is too shallow to settle down. Albert is dumb.
ReplyDeleteA person could be very bright and be an uneducated, bi, creepy, shallow playboy who can't settle down. Albert happens to be all of those things, but he is first and foremost dumb.
I could be wrong; i have big streaks of dumb in me, too.
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ReplyDeleteSorry if you took my comment for racist. I made an abrupt transition that implied a connection with his intelligence. I just meant that one of his baby mamas looked just like the opposite of his mother, which meant he had no definite type (as a reply to somebody who presumed he had a thing for platinum blonde).
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, the important thing in all this story is that Albert (and many other princes or sovereigns like him) is not necessarily very bright or even of average intelligence.
He got lots of one night stands with waitresses, stewardesses even if he's not particularly attractive because some women are attracted to royalty, or Jeff Zucker look-alikes. We've all heard stories about guys who are in high school and college, impregnate a girl they just met (not necessarily the Alaska governor's daughter) and have to live with that.
Albert impregnated at least three women while he was in his thirties or forties. The first time might be an accident. But, by the time he has his third or fourth love child, you may think he should have learnt what condoms are for.
What a stark contrast between this woman, and Kate Middleton who seems to be extremely happy.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what the deal is between Albert and Charlene, but you would think he could find some woman who wasn't so reluctant to marry him.