Princess Charlene reportedly had her “final procedure” on October 8th. It was said that once she recovered from that procedure, she would finally be ready to come back to Monaco for the first time since April. Of course, Prince Albert claimed that Charlene would be ready to return to Monaco back in September, and he suggested that her timeline of a late-October return was too much. Now we’re in late October and it doesn’t really look like Charlene is going back there any time soon. Still, Albert is trying to be upbeat.
Princess Charlene will be back in Monaco “very shortly,” according to her husband. Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE, Prince Albert says he anticipates doctors in South Africa will clear his wife to travel within days. Current plans, he says, call for her return in the coming weeks.
“She’s in good form and much better spirits,” he shares. “She will be here way before [Monaco’s] National Day, November 19.”
“Way before,” he emphasizes.
The prince, 63, says he hopes his wife, 43, will be able to accompany him earlier on a planned November 13 trip to Dubai’s World Expo, but he cautions, “we’ll make that decision at the last minute.”
Monaco’s princess, who shares 6-year-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella with Albert, has been medically “grounded” in her homeland of South Africa since mid-May after experiencing a severe ENT (ear, nose and throat) infection that she said made her unable to equalize pressure and prevented her from flying above 20,000 feet.
“Obviously she misses the children,” her husband tells PEOPLE of his and Charlene’s private conversations. “And they miss her. We all miss her.”
Her latest operation on October 8 was described by palace staffers as her “final surgery.” According to her husband, the four-hour long procedure involved a sinus correction and “went well.” According to Albert, a sign-off from her medical team, expected in the next few days, is all that is required to allow her return to the palace home she shares with her husband and their children.
Yeah. We’ll see! I’ll believe it when it happens, when Charlene is on the plane and in the air. Truly, this has been one of the wildest royal stories I’ve ever covered, and it’s possible this was always a straight-forward story of a woman with a terrible infection. But all of the added elements, the tragique marriage, the paternity dramas, the breakup hair, the real estate deals in South Africa… is it any wonder that few people believed it was a straight-forward medical issue? As I said, maybe Charlene will be on a plane headed to Monaco within the next week. We will definitely see.
Photos courtesy of Charlene’s IG, Backgrid and Avalon Red.
I hope she is or at least will be okay. She looks terribly frail.
I definitely think she was/is sick. But it’s also possible she isn’t rushing to get back to Monaco. It can be both things at once.
“way before mid-November”……? its already the end of October. This feels like it would be “way before” mid-November lol.
Anyway l used to be of the opinion that she wasn’t sick and was never going back, now I think she was definitely sick and will go back but she probably took advantage of the time in South Africa to regroup and enjoy time out of Monaco. I wouldn’t be surprised if this starts to become her “thing” – a few months in SA every year and then back to Monaco.
I wonder if she thought she’d get better care in SA than Monaco. Or, to put it another way, I wonder if she didn’t trust the care she would have received had she stayed in Monaco.
Exactly. Way before November is like… tomorrow.
https://www.royalfoibles.com/has-char-finally-lost-her-shit-or-has-she-just-had-it-with-alsan-introduction/
This was an interesting take on what is happening.
damn. That WAS interesting!!
read it and could not put it down.
That was quite a hit job, basically implying she’s a gold digger with an ‘incurable’ addiction to cocaine. Which he’ll explore in a later article, natch.
Royal Foibles is so nasty it actually makes me uncomfortable to read. Like HOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY levels of drama that just sounds made up after awhile. I don’t know.
I have been thinking about a drug problem since the beginning of this story. It is possible that they think it would be easier to cover it in SA.
In every article Celebitchy has had about the situation, Charlene has looked worse and worse. She has got progressively more emaciated, more grey in the face and now looks like somebody who is suffering from a really serious illness. Far from getting better, she looks like she is deteriorating. Whatever the situation with her and Albert, she looks in no condition to be enjoying anything right now so I very much doubt she is living it up in South Africa. She looks like she can barely stand up.
Did we talk about about her instragram post about her dog dying? The frankness made me snort/OMG/LOL.
“she was run over.”
I bet they’re negotiating the divorce and her visiting rights to the children.
When THAT is completed, she will return. She isn’t giving up her leverage before then.
Even if Charlene were to go back to Monaco on this timeline that Albert is insisting upon, this doesn’t mean she would be able to take on Royal duties again so soon. She’s obviously unwell and being medically cleared to fly home doesn’t mean she would be medically cleared or even physically ready to take any of that on again.
Whatever it is that is going on, Albert seems to be in complete denial of the situation.
Cue hospital visit for Charlene. This has already happened twice. In late August, Albert said he was going to talk to her doctors and she’d be back before October. Then she went to the hospital. Then in early October he said she was coming home soon and then she announced a “procedure” on October 8.
I mean, she looks frail/ill and the “breakup hair” is likely a result of the surgeries she had to get. There very well could be other drama behind the scenes, but there is no question she’s dealing with a serious medical issue.