Poor Princess Charlene. Pity her and her S-O-S blinking at formal events. These are new photos of Charlene and Albert in Florence, Italy yesterday. They were there on some kind of formal royal visit , part of which was some kind of gala called the 2012 Ballo del Giglio (“Ball of the Gigolos”? My Italian is awful!). Charlene wore this beautiful black Gucci (from the Fall 2012 line) gown for the gala – this is one of the prettiest dresses I’ve ever seen on Charlene. She has that strong swimmer’s body with those broad shoulders… and her body doesn’t always look very good in dainty couture. But I like this gown on her a great deal. She should do halter-dresses more often. Something negative: the ruffles are getting on my nerves.
Monaco’s Prince Albert and his glamorous wife Charlene are enjoying La Dolce Vita in Italy.
The royal couple were the jewel in the crown of the Ballo de Giglio gala in Florence on Wednesday night – a charity ball which donates proceeds to the Mongasque ruler’s foundation.
Embracing her husband for a slow waltz on the dance floor, Charlene looked every inch the princess under the shimmering lights of the grand hall.
The South African-born blonde had slipped into a cascading black evening gown. The simple halter neck style showed off her toned, athletic figure to perfection. Smokey make-up and slicked back hair completed the look.
Throughout their date night, the royals exchanged loving glances between dances and sips of champagne – clearly still savouring the first stage of married life.
Earlier, Albert and Charlene had taken in the sights of the beautiful European city, arriving in the historic Palazzo Vecchio to a passionate Italian welcome.
Local people filled the streets to watch their Mayor Matteo Rienzi welcome the special guests and guide them around Florence’s most famous sites.
Yeah… I love the way Hello Magazine – and all of the ass-kissy publications – tries to make it seem like Charlene wasn’t looking and acting miserable the whole time. Seriously, she looks like she’s going to throw up. Maybe she’s pregnant? Ugh. I’m so tired of Bump Watch-ing her. I just want her to escape!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
” – clearly still savouring the first stage of married life.” Uh, about as clear as Jennifer’s new rock.
Haha!
She has the saddest eyes of anyone I’ve ever seen.
Maybe that’s why she kept sipping on champagne, i’d be getting drunk all day if i was in her shoes…trying to forget the stupid decision of marrying knuckle head…hehehe…and by the way i think Charlene looks amazing in that dress, the ruffles add a feminine flair to her athletic body, that’s the type of body that can pull ruffles off with elegance…bcs if she had big boobs she’d look like a jessica simpson pinata!
I really dont pity her – it was her choice to get involved in one of the messiest royal families!
Maybe they did not court long enough before marriage for her to see his true colors?
Oh no you didn’t Emma!!!! 🙂
Yes, FIVE YEARS is really nothing! 🙂
Exactly! Every time Kaiser writes about her she throws this huge pity party. It’s so annoying. Last time I checked she was a grown woman who got involved with a homely playboy prince who needed an heir. We all knew about his illegitamate children and his philandering so I’m sure she did too since they have been involved for some years. She chose to accept his proposal and married him. If he was just some guy off the street I’m sure she wouldn’t look at him twice. She is a golddigger and he is gross. They deserve each other. Cry me a river.
I throw a huge pity party for her because the poor girl TRIED TO ESCAPE. And her passport was confiscated by Albert’s shady minions. She’s a f–king prisoner.
LOL Kaiser…..she is a prisoner who goes to balls and wears designer dresses?! Ha. She is in her 30s. A former Olympian from a good family. She isn’t some teenager prisoner/bride who had no idea the kind of man she was marrying and is now without recourse and options if she really is miserable and unhappy and wants to leave. If they did take her passport so what? She could have refused to marry him, what would they have done? Killed her? Forced her? PLEASE! If she wanted to leave she could do it right now especially since they have no children but yet day after day she stays……a prisoner in her ivory tower. I hope they do not have any children, it will just be extra messy and sad for the kid when they get divorced. If she is miserable and he is terrible (which he probably is)then why stay? I agree with you on lots of things but on this—not so much.
‘shady minions’ y’all!
Agreed!
Kaiser- that runaway bride story is total BS. Charlene took her mother to Paris for a shopping trip a few days before the wedding and when she arrived in Paris, someone gave a tabloid a tip that she was there and they ran a story that she had run away. Charlene said that when she got back to Monaco that night, it was too late to say anything about it because the rumor had already spread like a wild fire. I think its unfair for people to say that shes not happy just because she doesnt have the try hard Waity Katie approach to being a royal. By the way, a large part of that story was for the benefit of William and Kate. The tabliods tried the same “unhappy” story on Williams cousin Zara Philip and her husband, Mike Tindall.
@hoya_chick: From a good family?! None hold jobs and all have moved to Monaco. The Wittstocks are the Lohans of Monaco, with one “earner”, whose prospects amount to becoming a reality TV family someday.
So they are paupers looking for handout? My original point still holds. She is a gold digger to stay in a marriage you all love to point out she is miserable in.
I havent followed these people before. Why does she looks so miserable?
Really!?! You don’t know their story?! Wow, pull up a chair, you’re in for a treat. Just do a back search through this site for the story. It’s like a movie!
Will do. I feel like I really missed something now!
Isn’t she pregnant yet? Or are they trying to time that with Will and Kate? I love the dress she seems so sad though. I guess life isn’t a fairytale. She should have ran when she had the chance.
Such a beautiful woman. Such sad, lifeless eyes. Hate to see that.
ok, so I haven’t followed them for long but if she is so unhappy with him why did she agree to marry him in the first place? pretty dress though.
she has broader shoulder than that man. hahahahaha she looks hot.
She looks miserable in photos and she looked even sadder on her wedding day..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pcWbLQNUpg
Honestly, I don’t think either of them look too thrilled. Marriage of “necessity” is my thought – he needs a “legitimate” heir and maybe she will produce one. Body language pretty much says it all – we’re doing what we have to, but we’re not comfortable doing it!
Terrible posture. Maybe her dowagers hump is the only hump she gets in the royal marriage bed.
I don’t think she looks that miserable, I just think she’s one of these people who isn’t smiley-smiley all the time.
I agree with you. Some people’s natural faces are not all smiley; doesn’t mean they’re unhappy, just means that unless they actively smile, that they look kind of sad. My husband is that way and he gets incredibly tired of people telling him to cheer up.
Except, after an eyelift, several nose jobs, lip injections and an entire mouth overhaul, she doesn’t have a natural face left.
FYI: Ballo del Giglio = Dance of the Lily, being the Lily – the fleur the lis – one of the historical symbol of the city.
Pronounced – jee lee oh
amirite? 🙂
Well… their chemistry makes George Clooney and his escort girl look credible as a happily-together-after-arranged couple!
yeah i think she’s beautiful and seems kind of sweet in a sad, broken way… but at the end of the day, they both disgust me.
i hate that “we’re so royal and lovely and smarmy and glamourous and duty-bound” thing even though the entire planet knows their story is a *bit* less than a fairy tale. the fakeness and insane, undeserved privilege is just so blatant with them. i feel like it’s gross that she went along with it- and even if she was indeed retained at the airport, come on, are we really going to accept that she’s just a prisoner? cuz that in itself is shocking. it is gross that she has gone along with this for so long in spite of the truckloads of grossness and philandering and ick on his part and it’s gross the way he acted so visibly irritated and impatient with her tears on their wedding day and gross that in this day and age we’re still even looking at/ talking about/ excusing the “need for an heir” for royals- it makes me think of show dogs or racehorses or something, not human beings. also, he’s just straight-up sleazy and she’s his pretty blonde trophy willingly posing and (trying to) smile. bleghhh i never like to pin this kind of thing on one person but i do kinda feel that at this level of visibility she puts women back a couple generations for being so spineless/ gold digger-looking. sorry, charlene.
How many years did they date? 2, 3 years?
She looks miserable and yet I can’t muster up much pity.
10 years Vee. And I agree with you.
I like her.
I love that black dress!!!!!
OMG!
“S.O.S. blinking” Bahahahahah!
Poor girl…
Oh my God! Florence is the city of the flower, a Lily.
All the world know that.
I think she looks lovely here. And really, I no longer know what to think about the “she’s so miserable” stories. There was a great photo of the two taken in London at the Olympics, they were spectators at an event, and she was leaning into him with her arms wrapped around his. I remember thinking it was a very sweet moment. She didn’t look miserable then, cuddling her husband.
The dress needed something. It need someone gold, or some red jewelry. And most of all better arm candy and not that slutty ass Albert racking up kids everywhere his royal peen goes. I mean seriosuly, and then those poor kids can’t even inherit their father’s titles. Escandalo. Even Henry Fitzroy was made a Duke or some shit. Damn!
I think she looks good. No complaints.
I feel tired when I look at her, a “what’s the point, I’m going back to bed” kind of feeling.
Princess Charlene looks very elegant.
she looks miserable, oh well! She knew exactly what she was getting, and signed on the dotted line!