This week, royal viewers around the world were scratching their heads wondering, what’s going on in Monaco?
Earlier this week, Princess Charlene appeared in public with a new punk-goth hairstyle, with half of her head shaved and dark, heavy eyeliner, and now the word comes that Prince Albert is about to fight another paternity case.
Albert, 62 – who already supports two illegitimate children he had before meeting Charlene, 42 – was beaten with papers earlier this month by a Brazilian woman who claims she got pregnant while dating his now wife. The child, born in 2005, is now 15 years old.
Albert started dating Charlene in 2000.
The 34-year-old woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – says she had a passionate affair with Albert, which led to the birth of their daughter – whose name is also secret – on July 4, 2005, ”said the Daily. mail.
The child wrote to Prince Albert in September, “I don’t understand why I grew up without a father, and now that I’ve found you, you don’t want to see me.”
Albert has been called up for a DNA test and a lawsuit is planned in Milan in February.
While the scandal may have happened before their marriage, “the latest case relates to a time when [Charlene] was already in love with him, ”a source told the paper. “Charlene has had a terrible year, with one family crisis after another, including Albert getting the coronavirus, and now she is preparing for this hell.”
Charlene, a South African Olympic swimmer, first met the playboy prince in 2000 at a competition in Monaco and, after a long, fraught courtship, married him in 2011. A year later, she gave birth to the couple’s twins and official heirs, Gabrielle and Jacques.
During their courtship, it was discovered that Albert fathered two illegitimate children by two other women – Alexandre, whose mother was Nicole Coste, a former Air France flight attendant from Togo; and Jazmine Grace, the result of an affair with Tamara Rotolo, an American real estate agent. The most recent woman claims she toured the world with the prince in the 2000s, including trips to Brazil, the US and France, and even met Vladimir Putin on a visit to Russia with Prince Albert.
Albert’s lawyer, Thierry Lacoste, told the Daily Mail that the latest legal bickering is a “hoax” and added, “There are no intimate photos, no tangible facts about a possible relationship.” Lacoste said the family is considering a counterclaim for “attempted fraud and blackmail,” as the woman threatened to publish her story if Albert did not give her money.
Charlene – who disappeared before her wedding and was seen crying during her wedding – is said to be furious because “It was said that Charlene got news of the child when she was tried on for a wedding dress in Paris. The rumors disappeared for a while, but now they have exploded again, ”the site reported.
“People are very quick to say, ‘Oh, why isn’t she smiling in the pictures?’ Sometimes it is difficult to smile. They don’t know what’s going on in the background, ”Charlene said a year ago in an interview with South African magazine Huisgenoot.