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Post by MyAdia on Jul 6, 2011 8:56:47 GMT -5
My favorite quotes from this Herald Sun Editorial (Australian newspaper): "Run away Charlene", "Save Princess Chaz" went up the cry on Twitter and Facebook. But of course she couldn't be saved. She has made her own bed. ... She endured the shame of Albert's various infidelities, and Monegasque snobbery about her natural, shy manner, dress sense and even her low-class name, all for the prize of becoming princess.
But now she and Albert have the look of an unhappy crotchety couple on the verge of divorce, like Princess Diana and Charles in India, the Glum twins, just before they split. To me, the misery is palpable.
Union made in a haven from taxation
Miranda Devine July 07, 2011
YOU have to feel sorry for Princess Charlene of Monaco, weeping her way through her wedding for all the world to see last weekend.
TV cameras followed the South African beauty's every stilted attempt to win affection from her cold, indifferent groom, Prince Albert II, the 53-year-old bachelor son of American movie star beauty Grace Kelly and the pudgy Prince Rainier, whose looks he has inherited.
Bald Albert frowned as the tears streamed down 33-year-old Charlene's pretty face. She dabbed her eyes with a balled-up tissue as he turned away in exasperation, in one of the many ceremonies the couple endured over the $65 million two-day extravaganza in Monte Carlo.
Albert's coldness was astonishing. He turned his back on his bride at the altar. He remonstrated with her in harsh murmurs. Outside on the steps he instructed her to kiss him and, when she blew a kiss to the crowd instead, he insisted again.
They clunked their heads together in a parody of a kiss that was only marginally less awkward than the smooch he bestowed on her at the altar.
That was simply excruciating. We make judgments from body language and hers looked miserable and his looked angry.
She squeezed her eyes tight and he kept his open, not even bothering to tilt his head.
"This is about as lacklustre as it gets," body language expert Vincent Harris told celebrity website Hollywood Life.
"If your eyes are open, you think only of looking at the object of your passion, and use your hands and arms to pull them as close as possible. We see none of that here."
Even at the reception, when Albert stood to toast his new bride, in front of the cream of European royalty, he could barely muster any enthusiasm.
"Charlene, thank you for putting up with ahhh my very busy schedule ahhh, with my absences sometimes, with my ahhh, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. You are a wonderful, sometimes patient woman, with me."
She stared up at him with a fixed smile and no one laughed at what must have been Albert's little joke.
Super awkward.
The tall beautiful bride dressed in virginal Armani could not have looked more wan. So when the tears came flooding out, no one was surprised, least of all the grim-faced guests.
"Run away Charlene", "Save Princess Chaz" went up the cry on Twitter and Facebook. But of course she couldn't be saved. She has made her own bed.
Reports in the French media claim that Charlene had tried to leave Monaco three times before the wedding, once seeking refuge in the South African embassy when she was having her wedding dress fitted in Paris. Another time she was supposed to have left during the Monaco Grand Prix. And then a few days before the airport she was reportedly intercepted at Nice airport and had her passport confiscated by palace officials.
The palace has denied the reports but has confirmed a woman came forward in the days before the wedding to claim the randy prince fathered her child.
You couldn't make it up. And you could hardly blame Charlene if she had cold feet. Why go through with the marriage? Well, in the house of Grimaldi, Albert, who has never married but has plenty of bastard children, has to have a legitimate male heir or Monaco becomes a French protectorate.
There was a recent change to the constitution that would have allowed the throne to pass to his elder sister, Princess Caroline. But three times married, living in Germany and about to go through her second divorce, she might not be seen as a good prospect for a principality whose sole reason for existence is tax evasion and gambling.
Charlene, 33, a former Olympic swimmer, met Albert 11 years ago. She swam at the Sydney Olympics, where the prince was an enthusiastic partygoer during the Games. She reportedly caught his eye a few months later swimming in a competition in Monaco.
"It was incredibly flattering," she told Vogue magazine. "After seeing me swim, Albert asked my management for permission to take me out. We spent the whole evening laughing and talking."
But she had to wait five years for her next date with the playboy prince. For the past four years she has lived in a small apartment in Monte Carlo, with few friends and unable to speak French.
She endured the shame of Albert's various infidelities, and Monegasque snobbery about her natural, shy manner, dress sense and even her low-class name, all for the prize of becoming princess.
But now she and Albert have the look of an unhappy crotchety couple on the verge of divorce, like Princess Diana and Charles in India, the Glum twins, just before they split. To me, the misery is palpable.
What a contrast to the happy wedding in London just two months ago of Diana's son, Prince William, and his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton. It is obvious to any observer how happy they are from the natural, spontaneous way they come together.
We want to believe in fairytales, the power of love, the sanctity of marriage. That is why the Windsor wedding captivated the world and sent a feel-good bomb through every human heart.
In Monaco, however, it was disturbing to see a mockery of love.
We all love a damsel in distress and Charlene Wittstock looks like a human sacrifice to Monaco's tax-free status.
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Post by margarita on Jul 6, 2011 9:04:02 GMT -5
WOW ... you can't buy love ... and there is no way to "sell" Monaco with a bought "love". Idiots! ... poor idiots.
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Post by hibou on Jul 6, 2011 9:08:59 GMT -5
WOW ... you can't buy love ... and there is no way to "sell" Monaco with a bought "love". Idiots! ... poor idiots. WOW she totally screwed Albert in the press with her antics. She may find herself a very lonely lady indeed after this one. She's been successful in playing the victim card so when she divorces him it will be justified. Albert wake up and smell the coffee!!! JMO
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Post by creativemind on Jul 6, 2011 9:44:30 GMT -5
WOW indeed!
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Post by margarita on Jul 6, 2011 9:45:32 GMT -5
WOW ... you can't buy love ... and there is no way to "sell" Monaco with a bought "love". Idiots! ... poor idiots. WOW she totally screwed Albert in the press with her antics. She may find herself a very lonely lady indeed after this one. She's been successful in playing the victim card so when she divorces him it will be justified. Albert wake up and smell the coffee!!! JMO "Albert wake up and smell the coffee!!!"hey- that's my text !!! (just kidding ;-) But I remember to have written it a hundred times. Usually in combination with "call of the wedding!!!". Meanswhile I think he needs a triple espresso with vodka shot to smell anything !!! and some assistance to react right... ...but maybe - who knows??? After the "wedding" disaster some so-far staff members/ advisors might be exchanged ;D
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Post by countess on Jul 6, 2011 10:12:59 GMT -5
a principality whose sole reason for existence is tax evasion and gambling. ooooooooohhhhhhhhh OUCH ;D that PR money was well spent wasn't it, that flagship moronaco is already hitting the rocks LOVE IT, no really, you CAN'T make this stuff up! i nominate Miranda Devine an honorary opiner "Charlene, thank you for putting up with ahhh my very busy schedule ahhh, with my absences sometimes, with my ahhh, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. You are a wonderful, sometimes patient woman, with me."lets break that down "ahhh busy schedule" >>>when i'm with someone else "ahhh my long absences">>>>> when i'm with someone else "ahhh my inconsistencies">>>>>> when i can't keep my stories straight ABOUT being with someone else "ahhhh my idiosyncrasies">>>>>> wanting someone to watch while i breed you "sometimes patient" putting her in her place isn't he NO LOVE NADA! doesn't even sound like he thought about it very much or wrote any thoughts down. my hubby worried for months just what to say for his toasts.......CREEPY FATal doesn't even TRY to pretend at his wedding, i'll bet he's actually very cruel to her and treats her like the concubine he bought not a wife with respect. if she didn't deserve it, i'd find it sad. OCJMO!
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Post by margarita on Jul 6, 2011 16:46:14 GMT -5
They spend 65 Mio $ for that: www.welt.de/debatte/kolumnen/zippert_zappt/article13471475/Wir-fordern-Freiheit-fuer-Charlene-Wittstock.htmlMeinung| "Zippert zappt" Autor: Hans Zippert 06.07.2011 Wir fordern Freiheit für Charlene Wittstock!Die arme Frau Wittstock! Zur Ehe gezwungen, mit einem haarlosen Prinzen. Steckt die Wettmafia dahinter? Schickt endlich die Blauhelme nach Monaco! Der UN-Sicherheitsrat hat den Einsatz von Blauhelmsoldaten in Monaco beschlossen. Die Nato will vorher ein flächendeckendes Bombardement des Zwergstaats durchführen. Ziel ist es, die dort unrechtmäßig festgehaltene südafrikanische Staatsbürgerin Charlene Wittstock zu befreien und dem Terrorregime der Grimaldis ein Ende zu machen. Charlene Wittstock wurde Opfer einer Zwangsehe, man hat sie gezwungen, den fast haarlosen Prinzen Albert zu heiraten und ihm mindestens drei Kinder zur Auswahl zu gebären. Foto: Palais Princier via Getty Images/Getty Ein Bild des Grauens! Eine junge Frau wird zur Ehe gezwungen! Unter einem Schleier!! Frau Wittstock wurde massiv mit Geld unter Druck gesetzt, weshalb man vermutet, dass auch die Wettmafia hinter der Zwangsehe stecken könnte. Ebenfalls ist von archaischen Beschneidungsritualen die Rede, anscheinend wurden die Freiheitsrechte von Frau Wittstock nachhaltig beschnitten. Die UN fordern Prinz Albert ultimativ auf, die Besetzung südafrikanischen Territoriums aufzugeben und sich dem UN-Kriegsverbrechertribunal zu stellen. Es wird außerdem erwogen, Monaco die Genehmigung zum Betreiben eines Zwergstaats zu entziehen. google translation: We demand freedom for Charlene Wittstock! The poor Mrs. Wittstock! To the marriage in a forced manner, with a hairless prince. Does the Wettmafia put behind? Sends finally the blue helmets to Monaco! The UN security council decided the use of blue helmet soldiers in Monaco. NATO wants before a surface covering bombardment of the dwarf state would drive through. A goal is it to free and for the terror regime of the Grimaldis an end make there the illegitimately held South African Staatsbürgerin Charlene Wittstock. Charlene Wittstock forced victims of a forced marriage, one it to marry and it at least three children to the selection bear the nearly hairless prince Albert. A picture of having a horror! A young woman is forced to the marriage! Under a veil!! Mrs. Wittstock was pressurized substantial with money, why one assumed that also the Wettmafia behind the forced marriage could put. Likewise the speech is, the civil rights and liberties by Mrs. Wittstock was apparent cut lasting of archaic cutting rituals. The UN requests prince Albert ultimatively to give up and to the UN-war crimes tribunal place themselves the occupation of South African territory. In addition it is considered withdrawing from Monaco permission for the operation of a dwarf state. ... sorry - I forgot to googletranslate the second part. They call for the UN to send troups to Monaco! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by smt on Jul 6, 2011 16:52:49 GMT -5
Talk about a plan that back fired! Ouch!
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Post by cm7007 on Jul 6, 2011 17:36:21 GMT -5
WOW! WOW, WOW, WOW!!! ... and OUCH!
Tell us any of you guy who live there or nearby ... just how "small" is a "small" apartment in Monaco? I thought she was living in Steps old apt...? Every apartment I've seen there has been quite large - although I'm sure there are smaller ones. BUT - is this more of CW's pretentious talk - and it's really, by average standards, a lovely moderately spacious apartment and it's her way of saying "it's nothing" - another put down. To me a "small" apartment is 500 sq. feet. Like she's not living there for anything other than "love" ... "Oh the great sacrifices I've made!"
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Post by temporary on Jul 6, 2011 18:11:05 GMT -5
Talk about a plan that back fired! Ouch! My favorite quotes from this Herald Sun Editorial (Australian newspaper): Bald Albert frowned as the tears streamed down 33-year-old Charlene's pretty face. She dabbed her eyes with a balled-up tissue as he turned away in exasperation, in one of the many ceremonies the couple endured over the $65 million two-day extravaganza in Monte Carlo. Albert's coldness was astonishing. He turned his back on his bride at the altar. He remonstrated with her in harsh murmurs. [/blockquote][/quote] I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE, I JUST CAN'T. I shouldn't point this out but.... I really think she was almost ready to faint during the ceremony but that said... She was NOT crying at Saint Devote, She was not crying "real tears", or even "fake real tears"... It's REALLY REALLY obvious. When you cry from emotion, real, or induced from another memory, you cry EQUALLY FROM BOTH EYES. On top of that you have big tears that fall down the inside of your eye near your nose as well as from other parts of your eye. On the other hand, if you have something in your eye, one eye waters, but the mechanism is different -you end up with tears coming out the outside of your eye as your eye floods to try and wash something out, and your other eye waters in sympathy but typically just a little bit. Go back and look at the video, she starts blinking with no tears in her eyes whatsoever, then puts a tissue to her eye with her index finger apparently briefly PAD sideways/UP, nail down- which nobody does because you are putting your fingernail in your eye when you do that... the little- can't say it but rhymes with witch, I believe clearly dug her fingernail into her tear duct on her right eye (the one closest to the camera ) and then it starts watering like crazy. You can clearly see that she dabs at her left eye briefly to make it look genuine but there are virtually NO tears out of that eye, and an absolute flood out of the right eye on the *outside* of the eye, I mean I've been sobbing when someone died and not had that many tears on my face that quickly, but I have had that when I've got something in my eye. Albert initially looks at her with sympathy and affection and pats her arm then when he glances back a second time, I think he realizes that only one eye is "crying" and/or saw what she had done to her tear duct. I think she was doing that to embarass him- ON WORLD TV.. And btw another clue that it was just her eye watering is that she never had to wipe her nose at all... have ANY OF YOU, when you've been crying that hard from emotion, ever NOT had an equally dripping nose? I mean typically you'd have to blow your nose hard, not just wipe it. But you don't get that when you have something in your eye do you? IMO There's Monaco's flagship folks, an immature little witch that thinks so little of her future subjects she's willing to deliberately embarass them and her husband on world tv, just to get press and sympathy for "poor" Charlene. And he was "cold/angry"??, NO- DO YA THINK? I'd be ready to SLAP the **itch if I had been him. I mean does she have Munchausen or something geesh? If not my take on it- she's trying to get fired so she can walk away with money, I bet if she dumps him she gets nothing but if he dumps her she gets mucho moula. She was clearly hiding her ring in SA the first night, but you can see a tiny part of it in one photo, I bet she was trying to get more press- at his expense no less... Even forgetting it's bad press and he wouldn't want it for that reason, I don't think the runaway bride storyline was PA's idea for press, otherwise he wouldn't have been so PO-ed on camera at what she did at Sainte Devote -he would have expected it and have a favorable camera-ready response ready. For that reason I don't even think it's Stahl, this could only be hatched by two harebrained pea-heads like Kristensen and Wittstock together, or perhaps even her mother. Come-on media, you want to do slo-mos on the kisses and diss Albert, let's see the slo-mos on the TEARS.
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Post by hibou on Jul 6, 2011 18:22:54 GMT -5
Welcome "Temporary" hope you stay around longer! Thanks for the observation. I will have to back and look at the video!
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Post by MyAdia on Jul 6, 2011 18:37:16 GMT -5
Go back and look at the video, she starts blinking with no tears in her eyes whatsoever, then puts a tissue to her eye with her index finger apparently briefly PAD sideways/UP, nail down- which nobody does because you are putting your fingernail in your eye when you do that... the little- can't say it but rhymes with witch, I believe clearly dug her fingernail into her tear duct on her right eye (the one closest to the camera ) and then it starts watering like crazy. You can clearly see that she dabs at her left eye briefly to make it look genuine but there are virtually NO tears out of that eye, and an absolute flood out of the right eye on the *outside* of the eye, I mean I've been sobbing when someone died and not had that many tears on my face that quickly, but I have had that when I've got something in my eye. Albert initially looks at her with sympathy and affection and pats her arm then when he glances back a second time, I think he realizes that only one eye is "crying" and/or saw what she had done to her tear duct. I think she was doing that to embarass him- ON WORLD TV.. And btw another clue that it was just her eye watering is that she never had to wipe her nose at all... have ANY OF YOU, when you've been crying that hard from emotion, ever NOT had an equally dripping nose? I mean typically you'd have to blow your nose hard, not just wipe it. But you don't get that when you have something in your eye do you? Seriously, I belie that Charlene's tears at Saint Devote is aprt of the special coverage Jerome Revon had planned for the church scene. Just two months after the engagement announcement, Revon was called in and they started planning the coverage for the wedding. Please see this post of Jerome Revon Interview – in the Cost of the Wedding threadVanity Fair, part of the Conde Naste publications (along with Tatler and Vogue who both featured Charlene) has written a detailed article of advice to Charlene that literally reads like a gold digger manifesto. Here's he post - Vanity Fair advice to Charlene
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Post by cm7007 on Jul 6, 2011 20:12:07 GMT -5
Welcome "Temporary" hope you stay around longer! Thanks for the observation. I will have to back and look at the video! I will too! AND WELCOME TEMP!
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Post by creativemind on Jul 6, 2011 23:16:28 GMT -5
Welcome Temp!!!!! No fake assed tears on Temps watch!!!!!!
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Post by sandsla on Jul 6, 2011 23:34:50 GMT -5
Welcome Temp!!!!! No fake assed tears on Temps watch!!!!!! Welcome Temp! You are so right! And she should have been shedding a tear standing next to the man she was marrying that has paid her a fortune and has "kept" her for six years, and not at the church and where she has no business being with her overnight cracker jack conversion! Why the tears? Please someone ask her? My Adia is right this girl is such a phony--I knew it was choreographed, but I thought it was her own doing! This girl is so housewife realty show! Creative, I always have to bring up Arrested Development because this "whatever it is" reminds me so much of that show! And since you were also a fan...remember when Lindsey tries to fake cry but can't ;D I think it was at the end of the pilot or second show? When I saw Charlene's tears at the church that is exactly what it reminded me of! ;D
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Post by creativemind on Jul 6, 2011 23:40:31 GMT -5
OMG so true Sandsla!!! Hahahaha!!!
P.S. Still pissed that show got cancelled!!!!
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Post by margarita on Jul 7, 2011 3:58:51 GMT -5
Temporary: I watched the video of her tears again, even twice: I see her right eye crying but the left eye is almost unaffected! true!!! She turns her face to her left with a waterfall out of her right eye looking on Albert who blaffs anything to her (which sounds like "Enough now!") and looks away: that is the culmination point of Charlene crying and exactly the picture the media catched up. I would say -judging from this picture and without watching the video again and again and ingsee how the tears started - that she was really crying and didn't pay attention to the left eye! Even I thought (at least) the tears were real. But her nose is all right and her left eye seems to be almost dry. Maybe that's why Albert didn't really notice her crying and that explains his "coldness" - or he already knew this kind of "fake" tears? AND: When I feel that I soon might start to cry soon and don't want tears running down my face I FIRST get out a tissue -just in case. The more when I would be in public! Then I would use the tissue to dry the first tears and try to pull myself together, swallowing tears - I wouldn't even try to stop them with my bare fingers! Right Temporary - good observation! Charlene had her fingertips on the inside of her left eye very long - with her head down: if I don't want tears which are already in the eye falling out the eye I don't put my head down. Isn't it almost a reflex to lift your head a bit when you feel like crying and don't want to? I remember to have seen this very often - eyes get a little red and glassy, then the nose might change the colour a bit, the nose goes a little up, the person tries to "swallow" the tears and ... if it doesn't work the tears run down. Looking down, not getting a tissue out but putting your finger (in?/ on?) the eye and next having a waterfall of tears from ONE eye is a little unusual - agree... Yes, it makes Albert appear cold to her. But this game will only backfire on her ... it already started. Most papers are not like "the poor victim" but like "oh, two new paternity tests! she tried to flee! ooooh! it is said she took money to stay! OOOOHHHH! A business deal! No love story!!!" = 65 Mio $ spend for titles like "The bought bride" worldwide-WOW!!! Just a guess: Maybe they both wanted/ want to be released from that marriage and try to come out soon: Albert by fooling around and fathering children and Charlene by embarrassing him in the eyes of the world? If it is true that Charlene was picked and payed from the very start and during all those years - and many facts speak in favour of that she was build up with huge money and effort to be - first his "official companion" (he is a head of state now and should show up with always the same woman to appear more serious) - then his fiancée ( to make a one-year-long advertising-campain on Monaco Charlene) and then his wife (to boost the economy -how - and Monaco's image HOW ) it might well be that it was not Albert but the "team/Stahl" behind this "fairy-tale" story who made Charlene sign a contract before investing that much money in her, making her flag ship of the "wedding-PR-project" and putted her under pressure to go through the ceremonies (Albert might have known or maybe not - and learned the details about the deal only now, after the S.A. embassy-story or Charlene trying to get out of this ect. - we know he doesn't care too much for details and delegates work and responsibility to: for instance Stahl... and NOW he was told by third persons that Charlene is -in short- a gold digger.) ... that explains his sad face and "coldness" and ... Charlene trying to get out of this and "fired" asap - with the media on her side. Seriously: as long as it was good for her to make Albert look well (and thus Monaco) she did play the role. But now ... she is VERY upset by the things Albert has done and cares for herself: to be the victim. NOW the whole PR-advertising strategy doesn't work for Albert and Monaco and it's getting more and more obvious. OHHHH they are ALL getting the bill... for that insane nonsense... ;D And Albert needs SOON a new advisor. AdminNote: Reduced length of quoted text
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Post by margarita on Jul 7, 2011 4:43:04 GMT -5
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Post by donna on Jul 7, 2011 4:56:29 GMT -5
WOW she totally screwed Albert in the press with her antics. She may find herself a very lonely lady indeed after this one. She's been successful in playing the victim card so when she divorces him it will be justified. Albert wake up and smell the coffee!!! JMO "Albert wake up and smell the coffee!!!"hey- that's my text !!! (just kidding ;-) But I remember to have written it a hundred times. Usually in combination with "call of the wedding!!!". Meanswhile I think he needs a triple espresso with vodka shot to smell anything !!! and some assistance to react right... ...but maybe - who knows??? After the "wedding" disaster some so-far staff members/ advisors might be exchanged ;D It is not Albert's call. No matter how much coffee or vodka he drinks he can't do anything. He is completely at the mercy of his minders, who will go public with all his scandals, if he doesn't do as they say. So Fatal is officially a miserable retard. Something else has to happen. Nothing will ever change in Monaco unless the people take it into their own hands, or God helps them with an earthquake or two, making the palace collapse. Wouldn't that be fun? Yes, I'm back. This is such a incredible soap opera that I can't stay away.
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Post by emmeline on Jul 7, 2011 7:48:12 GMT -5
Thanks Temp! I might be joining a little late here, sorry, but i'll watch the video when i have the time. My God, i can't beleive how far can this con artist go!
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