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Post by grimnir on Apr 24, 2011 1:25:05 GMT -5
Albert makes most beautiful royals top 10 and the plastic barbie didn't get a mention? All that money wasted on surgery and then you get topped by your 20 year older sugardaddy!
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Post by grimnir on Apr 24, 2011 1:20:25 GMT -5
Rumour has it that Carla Bruni-Tedeschi-Sarkozy is pregnant. New presidential elections next year, so not badly planned if it's true.
I used to think that Sarko stole the idea for official escort from Albert. But maybe it's the other way around. No matter what, Sarko did it better and Albert made a mess of it.
btw, from a quick scan it seems that it is indeed true. The magazine Closer got the the scoop.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 24, 2011 1:09:08 GMT -5
From memory (so be careful ) the state owns a majority. Seventy percent according to Wiki. The Family owns around ten percent with no further specification as to who owns what, to my knowledge. Big mate Lacoste is on the board. Wiki learnt me nothing new, only a fitting acronym: SBM - Screaming Bloody Murder... ;D If anyone bothers to check, there was a lot of talk about this a few years back when the Qatari investment company wanted to take over the SBM.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 18, 2011 13:06:31 GMT -5
What about the pr campaign on tour? The promotions in Switzerland and (I believe) Australia and maybe elsewhere, where they send in a team of people to say the exact same blahblah as they keep on writing: come to Monaco, principality of love, wedding of the millennium, come to Monaco, don't miss it, spread the love (or more the hate), place to be, wonderful country, etc. Who has done that for his/her wedding? Who would do that for a wedding? So... ewwww. haha, they have to put "elegant" before that "South African Olympic swimmer...." that tells it all for me. Could have been classy. Or glamourous. Or worse. ;D
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Post by grimnir on Apr 18, 2011 2:10:28 GMT -5
More pics: And the same shoes again: and entering the Crazy Horse * in Paris with Albert: Did we ever agree if this was actually cw or not? She looks way too groomed to be cw, especially in those early days (March 2006). *What do we call the Crazy Horse? Sex club, erotic ballet, esthetic dancing?
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Post by grimnir on Apr 18, 2011 1:53:12 GMT -5
This photo sums up Charlene's fashion style to me. This looks like she was walking down the street, saw a dress on the side of the road, and put it on. She looks like she is wearing someone else's clothes and doesn't care how it looks. Since the engagement, she has done better with clothes, but why she wants to be called 'princess of fashion' is a mystery to me because she has never seemed to have much interest at all in clothes or how to use clothes to make herself more attractive. Because it is the only thing she could strive for? Being called princess brainy is a bit of a stretch maybe? Or maybe she read the tabloids and royal magazines and noticed that the only thing they ever talk about is clothes and so princess fashion was born? Fame and fashion is the only thing worth having these days. Sex tapes are cool and showing off your lack of underwear is a premeditated action to revive your career these days. Look at all the sugar forums: looks are the only things that matter. BTW, what bugged me most in this picture is the hair, she would win a competition with Maxima easily. By now, it wouldn't surprise me if Albert slept with anything that had a heartbeat. The guy is on a self-destruct downward spiral IMO and has so many mental issues and hangups that it surprises me he manages to play the more or less normally functioning human being role without slipping up. I never got the idea that it matttered to him what his official escort-now-fiancée looked like. Protocol doesn't seem to matter and if she turned up wearing an old potato sack he might not even notice. As long as someone else had payed for it...
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Post by grimnir on Apr 18, 2011 1:34:08 GMT -5
The story is up. Seems that Blue J has got the story right. A combination of the above story and Eringer's basically shows that there a two sides to every story, depending on what you leave out and what not.
I'm interested to see if the tabloids will pick this story up.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 17, 2011 8:02:25 GMT -5
Btw: In Germany were two tabloids with CW on the cover and titles like: Will the wedding be called off in the last minute? Article: CW looks lost and stiff at official duties. She was happy back in S.A. The only reason the tabloids can come up with for cancelling the wedding is the Grimaldi curse. And that one won't cancel the wedding but will let it take place and then make the Grimaldi's life hell. So no help there. Besides, Albert doesn't need help, he's doing fine on his own, optimizing his opportunities for marital misery.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 17, 2011 7:44:53 GMT -5
So now they are going to bash Grace in order for Charlene to cringe that she's not Grace. Ohhhh Charlene I wouldn't go there if I were you. Don't mess with a beloved Icon. Big big mistake. Talk about people turning on you in your "home country". This really is going to be her downfall. JMO To you and CM7007 and others: this was my rephrasing of the text and it got lost in translation. The original was in German, I had little time to read the thing properly and didn't want to spend any money on buying it. The original was more veiled, something about a scandalous past (thanks to whoever wrote that in another thread) or even less dramatic. The lily white virgin thingy are my words. I am properly ashamed for creating a conspiracy and misunderstanding all on my own. Sorry! BTW, I have tried to find the piece in the Corriera Della Sera, but my searches so far haven't yielded any results. Does anyone know what article the German magazine was referring to? Has anyone got the piece by chance?
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Post by grimnir on Apr 17, 2011 7:26:11 GMT -5
But then we're talking about the desperate, freak of nature Charlene. She made herself into some weird freak, she was ok before - look-wise that is. No comment on her mental state. But please leave nature out of it and don't blame it for the official escort's appearance. I suspect that nature has nightmares about the way this female looks. ;D
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Post by grimnir on Apr 16, 2011 13:25:45 GMT -5
Last one: And an OT remark: having seen a lot of pics it struck me (again) how unhappy she looked. And still looks.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 16, 2011 12:55:07 GMT -5
Some more to continue the endless possiblilities: at a wedding: outfits for holding talks: Ascension Day:
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Post by grimnir on Apr 16, 2011 12:32:39 GMT -5
Endless opportunities here. Anyway, here are some old ones from when she still looked human. The model: SA sports illustrated mag, posing for swimwear Posing for "advertisement": Note the bag! And on the above pics, the ones in the green dress and the swimwear one: look at her waist - or practically the lack of waist- and look at the pic I posted from the cover of last week's PM magazine. Where does that waist come from? I suddenly realise that these pics are not strictly pre-Albert but I hope you forgive me...
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Post by grimnir on Apr 13, 2011 13:39:06 GMT -5
Since the other topic is about general pr, I didn't want to hijack it and made this one. My intention is to devote this to Monaco, Albert and their media campaign. Or failed media campaign. And other noteworthy media/PR stuff. This week's Paris Match cover, per their website: This week's PM cover in my nick of the woods: (Everytime I see this pic, I'm missing the fag end in her hand. It looks like she's holding a cigarette, but again and again I need to realise that she isn't. Odd pose. And where does that waist come from?) I admit that I have never heard of monsieur Sebastien, so it might be better for their sales if they put someone or something else on their foreign cover. But PM apparently don't think that Monaco's flagship and savior is a selling point in France or she would have been on the cover there too. The cover is a waste actually, exactly the same pic - still without cigarette- is inside the mag as well. The article is a rerun of the Tattler tattle. I think. Didn't read the article, but the pics look the same. And they nicked my idea and "my" pics as they include some pics from the Ireland visit 50 years ago, some are the same as the ones I posted some weeks back. I don't recall any magazine doing that when Albert visited Oostende (Belgium) 50 years after his parents did. (Will Albert keep on doing those 50-years-after-my-parents visits? It's a bit silly after two of them.) The fiancée and the fiancé made a lot of German mags this week. The Ireland visit (apparently 14 people fainted during the visit 50 years ago). And several ones with variations on the Grimaldi curse (incl. the death of princess Antoinette in this), troubles with the wedding (Grimaldi curse again), shadows over the wedding (curse again). And here was I, hoping that real troubles had started... One was slightly noticable, something like Charlene not wanting to be like Grace. According to this magazine, the Italian Corriere Della Sera has recently published an article exposing Grace. Talking about her exes, her not so clean past and that she wasn't the angel people think she was. So now clean and blemish free Charlene cringes at every comparison with Grace Kelly since that means that they insinuate that she isn't a lily white virgin either. Last one (only 57 thousand characters left anyway): Amazon has advertisements on their pages these days. I was browsing the books and got one for Monaco. A reference to their "Monaco un part apart de la monde" or whatever that stupid sentence is. That campaign is still going then. Silently. Dare I say desperately?
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Post by grimnir on Apr 13, 2011 12:57:32 GMT -5
So, how does the media gauge the public's interest in their stories? Is it strictly sells, readership, viewership, and/or polls. Many online articles "most read" features can be distorted when fan sites link to them. do they take this in to account? I am trying to understand why and how Albert became so deluded with Charlene's appeal as the" new Grace." Magazines apparently take very detailed notice of the combination front page pic/person and number of sales. I assume the type of headline comes into it as well: when bashing Albert sells more magazines, they'll come up with some more nasty stories about him. Tabloids & men for some reason don't mix. It's my pet peeve. It's totally unfair as practically all princesses are not born ones. Their princes rarely make the cover and if they do, they tend to be an appendix to the princess in question. I haven't figured out why, I assume most readers are women and identify more with the princesses but even then you'd expect that a pic of a hunky prince would do ok? I suppose it's the thing about dresses, make-up, kids etc. Men just pull out the same suit as last time and hop into the car and don't get criticised for wearing the same thing again. Can't write about that. Oh well.... you watch tho, the tabloids that build trashlene as the new Grace, will be the first ones tearing her down, exposing her past and looking for scandal, that's how it works, build them up (make $$$, destroy them make BIGGER $$$$$$) and i've said it before, i'll bet her past makes heather mccartney look like a choir girl, CAN'T WAIT!!! we know she's been an "official companion" for many years to FAtAl, i can only imagine what she did to pay the rent before he came along and was impressed with her talents in the hot tub (she had to learn those tricks somewhere ) Before the wedding then please, after the wedding it's too late and there will be no way back. I have come to the conclusion about Albert's PR team is they don't understand 21st century media but think they do. Based on what they've amateurishly put out there, it's like they're stuck in a 1950s time warp and think they can control media like it was done during this parents time. Maybe that's how things go in the Monaco bubble but definitely not outside of the principality in this day and age. It's things there have been so restricted it's killed any real widespread global interest that might have developed over the decades. Strange, considering all the time Albie spends away from Monaco he'd get it that times have changed but obviously not. Does anyone know how old Stahl is? Albert and co. are fifty and older and are more or less of an earlier generation than most of the current crown princes. Maybe the whole lot is just too old and set in their ways to adapt to the new and rapidly changing times? What's the bet that the fiancée is by far the youngest one in Albert's entourage and circle of acquaintances? And she is useless, so no wake-up call coming from that direction.
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Post by grimnir on Apr 13, 2011 12:10:37 GMT -5
I really do not understand why a head of state opens a shop. Probably because they will deliver food for the wedding for free? Or for the marital goodie bag?
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Post by grimnir on Apr 13, 2011 10:15:25 GMT -5
Heck, come July, there's Charlene.) She's already there, but not lifting a finger. No shame in having the prince's fiancée over for an opening. Fiancée's first official solo gig in your shop: one could do worse. In normal circumstances, I would even think that a new face would draw more attention than an old face. And, to be honest, I don't think she's there, as in being in the country. Five years and stil no one knows where she hangs out when not on official escort duty. At least Kate seems to manage to have some sort of live, but "it" spends her ample spare time deflated and tossed in a drawer?
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Post by grimnir on Apr 13, 2011 10:02:47 GMT -5
Good day for Albert. ASM (then 18th) won from the number 1 of the league and is now 16th (of 20). Since the bottom three at the end of the season relegate to the league below, Albert might breathe easier. Especially since ASM was in the 14th spot until the rest of the teams played on Sunday which was when Monaco sunk to 16th place.
But where was his sportloving soul mate?
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