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Post by duchesscornflower on Aug 28, 2011 18:34:10 GMT -5
Well, she did found [URL=http://www.amade-mondiale.org/en/presentation/accueil.html[/URL] A.M.A.D.E.[/URL], The Association Mondiale des Amis de l'Enfance in 1963 and opened the Princess Grace [URL=http://www.theprincessgracehospital.com/[/URL] Hospital[/URL] in London in 1977. And she founded the The Princess Grace Foundation in 1964 to fund the Princess Grace Dance Academy and to fund other organizations with special needs that were not provided for by social services, such as local artisans.
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Post by royalpauper on Aug 28, 2011 23:37:05 GMT -5
I posted that video in this post in the jewelry thread. The video describes one of her three special expensive pieces of jewelry this gold digging narcissist had made just to show off for this wedding. No other European princess has ever done such a thing. But, this is typical behavior - spend, spend, spend - for a narcissistic gold digger who had to wait to wait 11 years to finally see your scam come in to fruition. Does any of these people (in the video and ones who came up with the idea) ever watch the world news? Just curious.... |
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Post by paca on Aug 29, 2011 5:23:46 GMT -5
Well, she did found [URL=http://www.amade-mondiale.org/en/presentation/accueil.html [/URL] A.M.A.D.E.[/URL], The Association Mondiale des Amis de l'Enfance in 1963 and opened the Princess Grace [URL=http://www.theprincessgracehospital.com/[/URL] Hospital[/URL] in London in 1977. And she founded the The Princess Grace Foundation in 1964 to fund the Princess Grace Dance Academy and to fund other organizations with special needs that were not provided for by social services, such as local artisans. [/quote]the dance academie received money from the fondation Marika Besobarsova and was her doing. Antoinette sponsored a prize and there was some government money. Grace gave her name and visited, but the work was not done by her. And nowadays it is no longer what it has set out to be. It belongs to the education national and local children can no longer attend. they receive money from sponsors and the government. Princess Grace foundation has nothing to do with it. as to the hospital I doubt that she had much to do with the running of the hospital. Again she gave her name and turned up for the photo op. HOw much actual wok she did for AMADE I have no idea of saying, but most of it is still done by others. She did not do anything for the one thing she knew sth about. She did not launch a theater and insured that MC had its own National theater with proper creations and its own company. she could have done a lot more for the cultural life of Monaco. I really have to say, that now, that I do not live there any more, I really do realize who much Monaco lacks culture. There is nothing on offer really. Whereas here, I don't even know where to start. there are so many museums alone for children. The kind of offers they have for children, but also for their parents. There are places where you can sign up your kids to be taken into the forest and have people explain to them all sorts of things about wildlife and how you need to behave in order to preserve it and why that is important. You won't find much of that in MC. You are lucky when you get to go to a concert or the opera and on occasion they do have a nice exhibit. But rarely. And now the orchestra doesn't have a chef, things will get worse. The talented young musicians are leaving. There is no reason for anyone who wants to be creative to come to Monaco. And that is in a great part Rainiers and Graces fault. And thus they have created MCs recent problems. Monaco only attracts tourists during certain periods, when they have specific events. And then they only appeal to a certain type of tourists. they do not cater to cultured and sophisticated people. But those are the ones that always have money and who could really give MC a different image. |
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Post by duchesscornflower on Aug 29, 2011 9:04:10 GMT -5
I don't live in Monaco and am saddened to hear that government services and funds for the arts are no longer available for the various artists and children that they were set aside for. I have read that Prince Rainier and Princess Caroline set up many cultural venues, such as the Princess Grace Library, The Princess Grace Foundation USA, The Monaco Ballet and others in her name. It seems that Princess Caroline had a lot to do with the success of these organizations, but again I don't live there so I really don't know. Thanks paca
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Post by sandsla on Aug 31, 2011 1:01:35 GMT -5
Of course she behaves like this! She's white trash. She's trailer park! That is the way anyone from that background would be expected to behave when given the position she has been given. In her childish fantasies -THIS is how she has always dreamed it would be - how she would act - how someone in this position, a Princess, would behave. THIS is her FANTASY come true. But it's not the reality of anyone BORN to this position - or born into wealth WITH CLASS. She'll NEVER get it. And all the plastic surgeries in the world won't help her get it either. It's why she doesn't understand WHAT we are talking about - why she thinks we are jealous - everybody is jealous - SHE JUST DOESN'T GET IT, AND SHE NEVER WILL. CM, you know that I always love your posts  , but I think some of your comments here....you may have mistakingly made the palace's argument without meaning to. Charlene's problem has nothing to do with her her socioeconomic class? Like the term Trailer park might imply (figure of speech--we all use it, myself included). The term white trash I totally concur with! ;D The problem I have is the idea that because Charlene was not born into wealth, she should not be expected to have any class? I would have to take issue with that idea for a couple of reasons, one being that I think this idea is the very case that the palace keeps trying to present? The idea that ANYONE not born into wealth would act like this...not being to the manner born? Hence the idea that people need to give her a chance....still! I think you might be unknowingly making the kind of statement that is exactly the thinking and excuse that Albert and the Palace have still been trying to make for Charlene all this time. That her behavior and actions are to be expected by ANYONE not born into the same kind of wealth or position of Albert? I think I know what kind of point you meant to make and that is that people merely stating it, no matter her title or how much money that Albert and the palace throws at her, she well never be one of the people she so badly wants to emmulate....to the manner born people....an aristocrat! ;D With Charlene level of mentality...she doesn't understand why Albert just doesn't buy himself a crown...because he could afford one! I don't know when she would expect him to wear it! I swear this girl has some retardation going on....now she wants a picture of her sitting on a throne! ;D Anyway, Charlene well never be respected not because she doesn't come from wealth herself, but because she will never posses the kind of class that she would like to convince people she has by trying to substantiate it with the lies and over inflation of herself in the media and press, instead of actually just "being" the kind of person who actually portrays class by the way they live their lives and in the way they treat people. People from all walks of lives understand what it means to have integrity, humility, gratitude and grace....in fact those are traits that are sometimes displayed more often by people of little wealth and means. I've visited with people of poor countries that could not show more hospitality and grace in how they live their lives--I think they would be offended by someone like Charlene. Charlene's problems are not to be expected by the same people who might share the same background--I do not recall the other swimmer's on her team talking themselves up in the press or flat out lying or over stated their own achievements like Charlene has. Her problems do not have anything to do with someone's level of wealth....maybe how Charlene was raised by her parents played a part in it, but the problems with Charlene are deeply rooted inside her. It is about her character, or lack of it, and her lack of integrity, her lack of a conscience? Her problems of extreme arrogance and ignorance...her own ineptitude and sense of entitlement are all of her own making, and I want to make that clear! It is about who Charlene is as a person in her soul, which is hard to tell because it seems to be missing and she is never sincere or genuine in anything outside of her own vanity. Duchesscornflower this is not a matter of something that can be taught....all you have to do is look at Charlene's early comments to the media and press before her relationship with Albert to see what this girl is all about, and has always been about--Charlene has been trying to promote herself at every opportunity she saw a chnace! Her problems have to do with her character, and it is not a matter of teaching her protocol! Charlene has already had more years and opportunity than anyone to step up and exert herself when she was auditioning for the role--she has been princess in training for six years, and she has done nothing but confirm everything we all knew about her after first seeing her just one time in Turin (that is all one needed to see to have her number), because it is about character and dignity, and the palace is not ever going to be able to change that! Charlene being exposed to Albert's lifestyle and position has only exacerbated all her problems that she already had long before she met Albert, and her very public relationship with him only served the purpose to act as a venue to expose them and to embarrass Albert, even if he is unaware of just how much damage the relationship and his handeling of it has actually caused him to lose face with everyone. Albert's life is the last thing someone full of self importance and self glory needs.....a stage to exploit it! The idea that people should just give her a chance? Why should people be expected to make concessions for this girl....still! She is not a child, she is a grown woman, and not a nice one at that, and the average person would not accept her behavior and mind set from a five year old! It is precisely all the coddling and excuses people have given and made for her most of her life that has probably helped to make her the way she is? Again, lerning protocol is not going to help a manipulating calculating woman, who cares about no one but herself....no amount of boning up on proper protocol is going to change anyone's impressions of her. If Charlene was three years old, you might be able to explain to her why it is not nice to do something, but at her age it is obviously just a matter of not caring? This girl is a narcissistic sociopath and the palace is not going to be able to teach her how not to be that, with protocol lessons--she has been on the job for six years, where she has had plenty of time to expose who she is already to the world. There is always some negative gossip with anyone in the public eye, but in Charlene's case it is well deserved! It is nothing like the same case with Grace, who stepped off a boat days before her marriage. Obviously there would be a few people who knew nothing about her yet outside of her being a Hollywood actress and an American outsider--sure there might be a few gossips who would like to find something wrong with a beautiful Hollywood actress that was already famous and in the public eye, but people were a little less evolved then and much more prejudiced in the 50's, but Grace had character and dignity--she did not live off a rich prince for six years IN Monaco rubbing everyone's nose in it--she did not collect a fat paycheck on top of eing kept in grand style. She did not start picking out tiara's and jewels for herself! Grace was not a poser! She was respected and liked by many people of all walks of life, not just a Hollywood crowd, and whatever people want to say about her, she brought and created something special there or she wouldn't have been credited for putting Monaco on the map. Grace was a special person, and there is nothing special about Charlene except maybe her impaired brain, if you have heard that meaning of the word. The palace is absolute nuts to think they could take any ignorant girl and turn her into a type of modern day Grace--I don't know why they don't let Albert forge his own road. Grace was exactly right woman for her era! The palace and Albert could have not chosen a more inappropriate and repugnant woman in their choice of bride for Albert in trying to emmulate her, if that was there agenda and it obviously was or is? People would have been very happy for Albert to just see him find someone to love and share his life with who would want to support him and the Monegasques people--someone with principles and a generous heart would have been enough. |
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Post by cm7007 on Aug 31, 2011 15:31:13 GMT -5
I agree with you Sandsla. Absolutely. I should have qualified my statements by adding her total lack of CHARACTER - combined with the lack of character her family seems to have, plus her complete INABILITY and STUBBORN refusal to TRY to educate herself about anything that might help her actually become the person and image she seems to want. I know lots of people who were not born into wealth who have extraordinary character, and innate class I might add, and many who were born into wealth who don't. Class and character have nothing to do with money!
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Post by hibou on Aug 31, 2011 15:56:19 GMT -5
I don't live in Monaco and am saddened to hear that government services and funds for the arts are no longer available for the various artists and children that they were set aside for. I have read that Prince Rainier and Princess Caroline set up many cultural venues, such as the Princess Grace Library, The Princess Grace Foundation USA, The Monaco Ballet and others in her name. It seems that Princess Caroline had a lot to do with the success of these organizations, but again I don't live there so I really don't know. Thanks paca I agree . With the ever so cultured HSH Princess Charlene, I'm sure that once the Starbucks is in, a modeling school will soon follow. She'll take credit for the art of high fashion twisting Armani and Lagerfeld to show up for photo ops of her modeling school. I wish Caroline would take over.  |
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Post by hibou on Aug 31, 2011 15:59:14 GMT -5
I agree with you Sandsla. Absolutely. I should have qualified my statements by adding her total lack of CHARACTER - combined with the lack of character her family seems to have, plus her complete INABILITY and STUBBORN refusal to TRY to educate herself about anything that might help her actually become the person and image she seems to want. I know lots of people who were not born into wealth who have extraordinary character, and innate class I might add, and many who were born into wealth who don't. Class and character have nothing to do with money! Oh but she sees her stubbornness as an asset, and set in her ways as she herself admitted, but I digress. I agree that there is no relationship to class and money. Simply put, class is something you are born with. You either have it or you don't. JMO. |
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Post by scout on Aug 31, 2011 17:06:53 GMT -5
I think that Charlene equates stubbornness with discipline, i.e., having discipline to achieve a goal that you have set. There is nothing attractive about being shown that you are wrong and yet stubbornly sticking to it. Some call it idiocy, some insanity; but it doesn't show class and it doesn't show intelligence.  |
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Post by hibou on Aug 31, 2011 17:29:05 GMT -5
I think that Charlene equates stubbornness with discipline, i.e., having discipline to achieve a goal that you have set. There is nothing attractive about being shown that you are wrong and yet stubbornly sticking to it. Some call it idiocy, some insanity; but it doesn't show class and it doesn't show intelligence. Perhaps she doesn't know the difference between the word stubborn and the word discipline and uses them as interchangeably - or the word determined might have been a better choice. |
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Post by duchesscornflower on Sept 5, 2011 0:40:56 GMT -5
 Yellow and white diamonds, very nice earrings. |
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Post by Lady Michelle Elizabeth on Sept 5, 2011 2:11:43 GMT -5
Yellow and white diamonds, very nice earrings. same style, white and red, with almost her original face, back in 2008.  |
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Post by paca on Sept 5, 2011 3:55:55 GMT -5
she probably thought she get's them cheaper in a dozen...
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Post by duchesscornflower on Sept 5, 2011 10:48:48 GMT -5
 Similar tassel earrings worn in January 2011 to the MC circus |
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Post by emmeline on Sept 5, 2011 22:19:43 GMT -5
I can't appreciate the earrings when her face is all over the photo...My God.
****emmeline tries to pay attention to earrings****
They are quite nice.
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Post by blue j on Sept 6, 2011 0:29:51 GMT -5
emmeline, I agree. Those earrings in recent photos are nice but the face is so fugly that it distracts from earrings. Such a waste...of earrings.
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Post by blue j on Sept 6, 2011 0:31:16 GMT -5
sandsla, great post about Charlene. |
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Post by MyAdia on Dec 3, 2011 6:11:28 GMT -5
Recall on Aug 4th Van Cleef revealed their new lounge named after the biggest Con artist in Monaco and they also unveiled their line of limited edition Alhambra necklaces and earrings (only 15 sets) named after the Con artist (see this thread: "Princess Charlene" Lounge at van Cleef). Well, it seems that they cannot even sell those 15 pieces because they are still trying to hawk them. Actually, they only had to sell 14 sets since Van Cleef donated one set to be auctioned at the Red Cross. No, make that 13 since the Con Artist obviously has a set. When will these people learn that Charlene DOES NOT sell anything. Nothing attached to Charlene will attract people to visit it, buy it or support it. This woman is a narcissistic and trashy and it shows in everything she does.
Princess Charlene's very own Van Cleef & Arpels Alhambra jewelsby Maria Doulton (from the Jewellery Editor) 16 November 2011
Princess Charlene has her very own version of the famous Alhambra necklace that she wore to the opening of the newly refurbished Van Cleef & Arpels boutique in Monaco. Van Cleef & Arpelsare right at home in the sun-drenched glamour of Monaco and with a new princess now officially in residence it seemed like a good time to give the boutique a sprucing up. As official supplier to the principality of Monaco since 1956, it was fitting that Van Cleef & Arpels should revamp its Place du Casino boutique to coincide with the wedding of Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene. At the re-opening of the Annoushka Hempel designed boutique that is as much dove grey clad luxe private apartment with plush velvet sofas as it is a selling space, Princess Charlene graced the event wearing her very own Alhambra necklace.
To mark the occasion, Van Cleef & Arpels created this limited edition of 15 Princess Charlene Alhambra sets, available only at the Van Cleef & Arpels Monaco Boutique. The long necklace belly-button grazing necklace and earrings are paved with diamonds and embellished with turquoises, the blue and white evoking the shores of the Principality. Van Cleef & Arpels most skilled jewellers known as the "Mains d'Or" or 'Golden Hands' have designed an extremely refined stone-setting architecture especially for this set where the gold disappears so that the diamonds can take centre-stage. Different size diamonds sparkle out and exalt the cool sea-blue of the turquoise. On the back the honeycomb open-work settings having been perfected to let even more light refract into the diamonds. The set has a value of € 102,700 and a portion of the profits from the sales of the set will be donated to the charitable associations and foundations supported by H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco. One set was donated by Van Cleef & Arpels during the Bal de la Croix Rouge gala dinner on 5 August 2011.
Necklace: Van Cleef & Arpels: Limited Edition Princess Charlene Alhambra necklace, white gold, diamonds (9.1 cts) and turquoise. Price from 74 400 € ($99,733 )Earrings: Limited Edition Princess Charlene Alhambra earclips, white gold, diamonds (3.4 cts) and turquoise. Price from 28 300 € ($37,936) |
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Post by MyAdia on Dec 3, 2011 6:17:43 GMT -5
Realize that the total set price of $137, 669 (102 700 euros) is the starting price; there are more expensive pieces in the collection. What woman do you who will spend that much money on a collection named after such a trashy person? Now that the Con Artist Princess has read this, don't be surprised if we hear about the entire collection being sold - most likely to a money lauder looking fo a favor in return.
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, but I think some of your comments here....you may have mistakingly made the palace's argument without meaning to. Charlene's problem has nothing to do with her her socioeconomic class? Like the term Trailer park might imply (figure of speech--we all use it, myself included). The term white trash I totally concur with! ;D The problem I have is the idea that because Charlene was not born into wealth, she should not be expected to have any class? I would have to take issue with that idea for a couple of reasons, one being that I think this idea is the very case that the palace keeps trying to present? The idea that ANYONE not born into wealth would act like this...not being to the manner born? Hence the idea that people need to give her a chance....still! I think you might be unknowingly making the kind of statement that is exactly the thinking and excuse that Albert and the Palace have still been trying to make for Charlene all this time. That her behavior and actions are to be expected by ANYONE not born into the same kind of wealth or position of Albert? 
