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Post by agentf on May 6, 2015 9:39:01 GMT -5
If you notice in this quote, it's Albert who comes out winning with his people by being accessible. I'm not sure CC has yet to bridge the gap with the Monégasques. She lacks spontaneity IMO.
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Post by mrszinck on May 7, 2015 5:59:57 GMT -5
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Post by agentf on May 7, 2015 6:13:32 GMT -5
So Gareth is a godmother too? (sorry) Is this the same Diane de Polignac? I imagine she and Caroline would be close: Art Dealer
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Post by drusi66 on May 7, 2015 7:51:12 GMT -5
Mmmm .... very low profile godparents, no aristocrat ...
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Post by smt on May 7, 2015 8:13:08 GMT -5
I think the papers have it wrong (as do the Sugahs!)... Chris LeVine (the cousin and best man) is actually D. Christopher LeVine, Jr. So, the Chris LeVine, Jr. isn't his son.
BTW, couldn't they come up with some other relatives?
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Post by paca on May 7, 2015 8:27:00 GMT -5
so Gabriella got the short end.... very uninteresting people all in all and sounds like a very boring baptism. Guess no big names are to be expected given the choice of godparents. So my guess they are overestimating the crowds to be expected. At least they left Sunday mass at its usual hour.
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Post by agentf on May 7, 2015 10:25:13 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if Monaco is preparing to become a republic sometime soon Mmmm .... very low profile godparents, no aristocrat ...
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Post by smt on May 7, 2015 10:32:54 GMT -5
I'm rather surprised they didn't even trot out Charles and Camilla from Italy or Prince Emanuele Filiberto -- wasn't Fat Al his best man? It will be interesting to see the guest list to this latest Monagasque-fail.
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Post by paca on May 7, 2015 12:35:15 GMT -5
well, I guess if there would be any high profile guests, MC matin would have been boasting about it already. Obviously they will spin it as wanting to keep it an MC family thing, but then they could have just done it like the Windsor, who keep theirs always low profile. you don't do a mass in the cathedral, have big screens and openly urge people to please line the roads and flock to the palace place, if you want it to be intimate. They seem to be torn between wanting to go huge and knowing that no one really cares. At least not beyond their own limited world. It's just so pathetic. Just like that empty space at their wedding and the shortened and still empty drive through MC. I mean seriously they barely made more then 3 people standing behind each other along the fairly short road along the port. And there was no one on the way down there, Albert desperately waving to the camera and his police escort to protect them from all that empty space. Most people will, if at all be watching on TV, a lot will be gone for the weekend, so there will only be a few suck uppers who are always there and some tourists. Not sure what the forecast is, but apparently they didn't have great weather lately. If it rains, there won't be anyone because obviously they would all be leaving by car then, so nothing to see...
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Post by emmeline on May 7, 2015 13:46:18 GMT -5
According to Palais de Monaco fb, there will be a condecoration ceremony in the Salon de Glaces, where Jacques will br named Grand Cross of the Order of Grimaldi while Gabriella will be named Grand Officer of the Order of Grimaldi. Jacques godparents will be name Officers of the Order of St Charles and Gabriella's will be named Officers of the Order of Grimaldi...
Gareth must be so excited. He will have a royal order for nothing. He might want to make tattoo of it too, lol
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Post by agentf on May 7, 2015 15:06:20 GMT -5
At this point I'll just be so glad to see Lynette Wittstock!
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Post by paca on May 7, 2015 16:18:35 GMT -5
just when you thought things couldn't get any trashier... MC is getting puke worthier every day. At this rate we won't see a divorce until they are through all his money and have dragged MC fully into the gutter. If I were Beatrice, I'd be thinking really hard, if I want to tie myself to that trash lot. Better run. Really fast.
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Post by emmeline on May 7, 2015 16:44:48 GMT -5
According to sugahs, the choice for godparents is completely appropiate and well done because it's better to name friends who will actually be part of the children's life...so no royals is ok...lmao. They were drooling at the possibility of Trashy's bestie Maxima to be a Godmother or one of the Luxembourg princes and now it's totally adorable the choice of the godparents? There was Caro and Steph as close relatives. Steph is really close to Albert. The Casiraghis are close to thei uncle. What happened? Nobody wanted to be godparent to this offspring? I can understand Chris Levine being chosen. But the rest? Gareth? Really? He is such a leecher, i think i like him lesser than his sister.
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Post by paca on May 7, 2015 17:29:20 GMT -5
LOL it's not even Chris levine, it's his son. So it almost looks like they eventually got desperate and didn't want to turn to the same people they usually turn to for fear of seeming friendless (we know trashy is so that's how Gareth got in and he is the greatest leech of them all, making his living out of his sisters marriage, so to make sure he never runs dry on money they punched a hole into Gabriella, in case there should ever be a divorce... the guy is repulsive) And even Albert didn't seem to find suitable people among his closest pals. Maybe he realized that his party and sex crowd wasn't appropriate for his heir to be associated with. Wish he would have thought of that when choosing his mother. She and her parasitic family shouldn't be related to him or socialize with him. Lets just hope that eventually the people of MC will realize how bad this family has gotten and loath them as they used and finally chase them away
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Post by smt on May 7, 2015 18:31:53 GMT -5
LOL it's not even Chris levine, it's his son. So it almost looks like they eventually got desperate and didn't want to turn to the same people they usually turn to for fear of seeming friendless (we know trashy is so that's how Gareth got in and he is the greatest leech of them all, making his living out of his sisters marriage, so to make sure he never runs dry on money they punched a hole into Gabriella, in case there should ever be a divorce... the guy is repulsive) And even Albert didn't seem to find suitable people among his closest pals. Maybe he realized that his party and sex crowd wasn't appropriate for his heir to be associated with. Wish he would have thought of that when choosing his mother. She and her parasitic family shouldn't be related to him or socialize with him. Lets just hope that eventually the people of MC will realize how bad this family has gotten and loath them as they used and finally chase them away Paca, it IS the Chris LeVine who is Fat Al's contemporary. His formal name is D. Christopher LeVine, Jr. ... that's where the idiots got Chris LeVine, Jr. I'm more confused about the lady from South Africa? Who the hell is she and where has she been if this is practically the first time she's been involved in anything. BTW, where are Trampy's "only 2 friends in Monaco" and why weren't they chosen to be godparents. These people can't help but screw up something which should be so simple to orchestrate.
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Post by refia on May 7, 2015 19:43:39 GMT -5
This has to be the most random choice of godparents for heirs I have ever seen. Lmao Albert had the Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenia as godmother, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (the other one Prince Louis de Polignac). Carolines were Margaret Davis, daughter of her mother’s sister Peggy and Georg III, Prince Festetics von Tolna, Stephanies John B. Kelly Jr and Elisabeth-Anne de Massy. why so random now for the twins?
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Post by paca on May 8, 2015 8:57:18 GMT -5
LOL it's not even Chris levine, it's his son. So it almost looks like they eventually got desperate and didn't want to turn to the same people they usually turn to for fear of seeming friendless (we know trashy is so that's how Gareth got in and he is the greatest leech of them all, making his living out of his sisters marriage, so to make sure he never runs dry on money they punched a hole into Gabriella, in case there should ever be a divorce... the guy is repulsive) And even Albert didn't seem to find suitable people among his closest pals. Maybe he realized that his party and sex crowd wasn't appropriate for his heir to be associated with. Wish he would have thought of that when choosing his mother. She and her parasitic family shouldn't be related to him or socialize with him. Lets just hope that eventually the people of MC will realize how bad this family has gotten and loath them as they used and finally chase them away Paca, it IS the Chris LeVine who is Fat Al's contemporary. His formal name is D. Christopher LeVine, Jr. ... that's where the idiots got Chris LeVine, Jr. I'm more confused about the lady from South Africa? Who the hell is she and where has she been if this is practically the first time she's been involved in anything. BTW, where are Trampy's "only 2 friends in Monaco" and why weren't they chosen to be godparents. These people can't help but screw up something which should be so simple to orchestrate. rofl, thx for clearing that up. Sp Albert has officially no decent friends he can turn to. Just Chris and a distant relation in Portugal, as I am assuming that she is somehow related to his Polignac grandfather. so all the other people he has around him all the time are sleezy scumbags you wouldn't want near your children, especially not your daughter. The SA woman is the wife of a guy who works for her foundation. Trashy is not the type to be friends with women. But she needed a woman, so she got her in return for employing her husband in her foundation. For some reason people think it is a good thing. I suppose they pay them well for the photo ops and the few hours work. Plus the frequent all inclusive luxury trips to MC. Maybe the promise of citizenship after residency? so anyways both seem to have no decent friends and only family. Pretty pathetic and shows that they don't know how to chose friends.
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Post by agentf on May 8, 2015 10:45:16 GMT -5
Put in that perspective, indeed!! They are heirs too, and not one royal godparent? Ouch. What about that nice brochette of lesser royals that graced one of Monaco's events recently? The Greeks and Italians? The Savoia dude (though he was taking pics of prostitutes in windows in Amsterdam earlier this week so what kind of influence...? lol) Even a Hanover, I'm sure Caroline could have arranged it. The Lichtenstein prince who was hanging out at the balcony with the family? Anyone? This has to be the most random choice of godparents for heirs I have ever seen. Lmao Albert had the Spanish Queen Victoria Eugenia as godmother, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria (the other one Prince Louis de Polignac). Carolines were Margaret Davis, daughter of her mother’s sister Peggy and Georg III, Prince Festetics von Tolna, Stephanies John B. Kelly Jr and Elisabeth-Anne de Massy. why so random now for the twins?
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Post by mrszinck on May 8, 2015 14:40:56 GMT -5
let's face it no one wanted.
Albert knows everyone very well - IOC royals... 5 months of waiting is never good.
In any case, they are finally baptized!
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Post by emmeline on May 8, 2015 14:45:48 GMT -5
Gareth very much wanted it and he got it! Lol. Unless we are talking about royals. Then no, no one couldn't care less about Monaco, Albert and his legit babies.
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