Princely Family of Monaco: Current Events Part 9: May 2018 - December 2019


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I love that Gabriella wore a red dress. The presence of the children made it a warm occasion. The Chinese First Lady was visibly relaxed with the twins.
 
melina premiere said:
Prince Albert wearing sun glasses when he was arriving for an officiel visit to the Mali, he was with the president of the Mali and it was an officiel ceremony

https://royalcorrespondent.com/2012...hness-prince-albert-ii-of-monaco-visits-mali/

Charlene would have remove the sun glasses if Albert would have said that it was direspectul, he does not think that it is direspectful, he knows better than you
You focus on the sun glasses , it is Nothing near the fact that he was an important visite and Charlene was very warm and kindly and for the presidentiel couple, it was the most importance than to wear sun glasses in their presence

As I said it, Charlene did a good work to day during all the day

It is nice that Jacques and Gabriella were also present during the concert and they visited the Palatine chapelle and they were very polite and respectful
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Excuse me! I have worked in the the diplomatic field. I have escorted Presidents, Prime Ministers, Governor Generals and Ambassadors. I know the protocol, so please don't insinuate that I don't know what I'm talking about. While she was warm and personable, it doesn't take away that it is a major sign of disrespect to wear sunglasses when meeting dignitaries for the first time, especially being a premiere femme.

I don't care if Albert did it in the past, then he also committed a faux pas. It's quite simple. For what's it's worth, I don't dislike Charlene, just pointing out something that goes against diplomatic norms.
 
Thanks melina p, for this video.


The twins are vey natural and spontaneous, and so well behaved. Could anyone hear what PJacques was saying that made his mom laugh? The couple looked happy and relaxed entertaining their guests.

It looks like it was a very successful visit. The Chinese president speaks no English?
 
C4A said:
Thanks melina p, for this video.


The twins are vey natural and spontaneous, and so well behaved. Could anyone hear what PJacques was saying that made his mom laugh? The couple looked happy and relaxed entertaining their guests.

It looks like it was a very successful visit. The Chinese president speaks no English?
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He speaks English, but it's not the "at the native level". It is easier sometimes for dignitaries to have a translator that way nothing gets lost in translation.
 
Elly C said:
I love that Gabriella wore a red dress. The presence of the children made it a warm occasion. The Chinese First Lady was visibly relaxed with the twins.
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I love that Gabriella wore a red dress as well...but I didn't like or understand the dark stockings at all.

However, that was a minor complaint. Watching the little princess and her brother plant kisses on the cheek of the Chinese First Lady and even demand "one more!" made my heart melt.

Those twins are absolutely the best ambassadors for the Principality of Monaco!?
 
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Charlene today has done tne minimum required as a First lady. Minimum.i It doesn't happen very often. . Charlene isn't a heroin. . For me , sunglasses or not, she is always inexpressive.

Charlene today was warm and kind? What effort! If we think about the other First Ladies and their work, no comment.
 
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Flaubert said:
Charlene today was warm and kind? What effort! If we think about the other First Ladies and their work, no comment.
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While I agree that Charlene doesn't appear to do much as First Lady (and I don't understand why but it seems Albert is ok with that) I have to say that today she was almost back to the young woman who started going out with Albert. She was much more relaxed, spontaneous and smiling than we have seen for a while. It was a lovely appearance by the family.
 
Yesterday Charlene was relaxed. After 11 years of marriage and before 5 years of engagement , we are happy if she is finally at ease . A Life with many privileges and few duties.
 
I have felt that Charlene was more than a little intimidated by her sisters-in-law and their families.

They are very wealthy, worldly and have always been a larger than life part of who and what Monaco is.

For all the time they spent together, Albert didn't seem to make much of an effort to present Charlene as the woman he loved to his family letalone his country. For all intents and purposes, Caroline has been First Lady of Monaco since even before their father died. I don't see her handing over the reins to Charlene and I don't see either Albert or Charlene making an issue about it. Like William and Harry are Diana's children, Albert, Caroline and Stephanie are Grace Kelly's. And nobody can gazzump that, not even their spouses.
 
Wow the twins have met an impressive number of important people already in their young lives. Did the video show the President giving them bycicles? It looked like that.
 
sophie25 said:
Wow the twins have met an impressive number of important people already in their young lives. Did the video show the President giving them bycicles? It looked like that.
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Yes, the little Marquis des Baux and Countesse de Carla des have met quite a score of dignitaries and world leaders in their 4 years. And they appear to have charmed the socks off them all. ?

If the Chinese president has given them bicycles, I bet they are thrilled with them. I hope we get to see them ride soon!?
 
Flaubert said:
Charlene today has done tne minimum required as a First lady. Minimum.i It doesn't happen very often. . Charlene isn't a heroin. . For me , sunglasses or not, she is always inexpressive.

Charlene today was warm and kind? What effort! If we think about the other First Ladies and their work, no comment.
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Dear Flaubert,
I agree with you, she did the minimum as First Lady, and it's not a great effort if we consider the few events she attended since Saint Devote. She is a a princess but she doesn't want to be the First Lady for Monaco. Albert's is lucky because, having accepted that from his wife, has a great family, 2 sisters, and 8 nieces and nephews. Let's don't forget the in-laws like BEATRICE Casiraghi etc.
 
Colors, Colors...

If Princess Charlene wears an outfit like this on a good day, I wonder, what she wears to a funeral :ermm:.

BTW: Was white not the colour of mourning in large parts of Asia? But I think only in buddhist cultures. And the President and his wife are for sure atheists... So, Princess Stephanie is excused...

I liked the table decorations very much: Red and yellow..., these are "lucky" colours in China.
 
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I like how the ladies (probably unintentionally) co-ordinated so Charlene was in black and her sisters-in-law were both in white.

Personally I am just amazed that the President of Chin has made a State Visit to Monaco given how rarely we see Monaco receive such visits.
 
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Princess Stephanie resembles her cousin Baroness Elisabeth-Anne de Massy in this photo from the visit.

https://scontent.fath3-4.fna.fbcdn....=182ec1705537c0fdc86cc92158fb201e&oe=5D4B1D8D

Gorgeous room don't think we've seen that before.
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Yes I agree that the blue salon is a particularly beautiful room. The salon de glace is lovely but it is overly photographed IMO, I wish they used the blue room far more often for official receptions etc. I saw the other day that there is also a red salon in the palace which I had not seen before either so it seems to have a few nice rooms which we barely see.
 
If we saw more visits to Monaco hosted by the Princely couple the lesser known rooms of the palace might get a little more attention.
 
King Baudoin wore sun glasses during when he met king s or Queens and when it was Sunny as here when he arrived in Schepol for a official visit

https://www.alamyimages.fr/juillet-...=1&vd=0&lb=&fi=2&edrf=&ispremium=1&flip=0&pl=

video of Monaco info

I already posted a video where Jacques and Gabriella were receiving the bycicles but some people did not see it and asked when they will see the video or the photos
Also I posted this one
 
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Keep calm,, sunglasses or not, Charlene remains what she is.
 
Melina, many thanks for sharing these videos. In the video, it can be clearly seen that Charlene's jacket had black sparkling studs. So she was not wearing a plain and drab black jacket as so many thought and were very quick to criticize and find fault with her. The twins are adorable and very well mannered. Caroline was elegant, but she needs to change her hairstyle, the ends are quite scraggy.
 
I am agreed with you, I saw the details of the jacket with these sparklings studs, very beautiful, back is no more color of funeral, Charlene was perfect in her role of princess consort and I am not surprised, and it is very nice to see that Prince Albert and princess Charlene are including their children in some events , Jacques and Gabriella are lovely and have a good behaviour

Other king wearing sun glasses during a visit, King Albert of Belgium wearing sun glasses when he met the pape in the vatican

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2016/03/king-albert-ii-and-queen-paola-of.html

It is the proove that is not a diplomatic fault and there are also other présidents as president Sarkozy who wore sun glasses and he met Prince Albert when he came during a very Sunny official visit in 2008
 
I also noticed the sparkling detail on P Charlene’s jacket and thought it lifted the all black quite nicely.

I feel for P Charlene: she is heavily criticised when she misses an event and equally criticised when she attends. I am happy to have seen her present at this official occasion. She was a gracious hostess, I for one think that she did well. And of course, the twins are super cute, spontaneous and loving.

Looking back, I am sire P Albert will regard it as a successful visit.
 
If I think what Princess Grace did in Monaco at onlly 27 years and after her death what did her daughter , Princess Caroline, Charlene, who Is 41 years old, looks a very modest woman and wife of a head of State.
 
I know Monaco is small but I think there would have been enough to do to fill a longer visit. The President would probably have been interested to have visited the famous casino, cathedral and some of the economic developments such as the land reclamation project. A performance at the opera house would also have been nice as would have been a formal state dinner.
 
Yes, it would be nice but The president did a state visite in Italia till Sunday Morning, he arrived from Roma Sunday Morning and the Sunday evening , they had to meet President Macron and his wife in a hotel in Nice for a privat dinner, there were not enough time to do these visites and I think Albert would be pleased to show to the couple the monuments of Monaco but It does not detract away the very importance of this visite

Prince Albert said , he invited President XI Jumping last summer and he was very happy that the president had enough time to do a state visite in Monaco, it was as an historic day ( as the monegash people and medias are saying), a head of state of one of the biggest took the time to meet the prince of one of the smallest country after the Vatican

As I said later, Monaco does not receive very often the heads of states and when the principauty is receiving for an official state, it does not last more one day, President De Gaulle did a state visite in 1960 which lasted one day, President Mitterrend did a visite of 2 days, the principauty did not receive a state visite of France since 1960 and this state visite took place in 1986, the other heads of state did an officiel visite which lasted some hours in a day for exemple President Chirac, president Sarkozy, President Hollande did officiel visites which lasted 5 hours
 
Xi Jinping arrived from Palermo , not Roma,

Mitterrand visited Monaco in january 1984 with a wonderful Princess Caroline as First Lady, just marrried with Stafano Casiraghi.
 
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melina premiere said:
I am agreed with you, I saw the details of the jacket with these sparklings studs, very beautiful, back is no more color of funeral, Charlene was perfect in her role of princess consort and I am not surprised, and it is very nice to see that Prince Albert and princess Charlene are including their children in some events , Jacques and Gabriella are lovely and have a good behaviour

Other king wearing sun glasses during a visit, King Albert of Belgium wearing sun glasses when he met the pape in the vatican

https://www.newmyroyals.com/2016/03/king-albert-ii-and-queen-paola-of.html

It is the proove that is not a diplomatic fault and there are also other présidents as president Sarkozy who wore sun glasses and he met Prince Albert when he came during a very Sunny official visit in 2008
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It's a disrespectful behavior from a diplomatic point of view, even for King Balduin, and King Albert with the Pope, etc etc.
 
Flaubert said:
Mitterrand visited Monaco in january 1984 with a wonderful Princess Caroline as First Lady, just marrried with Stafano Casiraghi.
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Princess Caroline is Princess Caroline. I mean She worked, is working and will work for her Country. No doubts about it. As you pointed out Princess Grace and Princess Caroline did a lot for Monaco when they were Monaco's First Lady. We cannot even compare both of them with Princess Charlene, who loves the title HSH but not the duties.
 
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