Biography of Princess Stephanie

[michelle]

Wow...cool...think we should tell Steph right away....

[michelle]

In 1990 Canadian singer Roch Voisine released a song dedicated to Stephanie.

Here are the lyrics:

Les jardins de St. Martin ( Princesse)

Princesse, ton château
Coiffé d'un drapeau
Si beau, si haut
Trop souvent t'embête
Et te blesse sans cesse
Quand tous ces gens qui parlent trop
T'arrachent à ton sommeil
Font fuir ton cheval blanc
Obscur ton ciel
Et dans ton miroir
Y déposent un brouillard
Si dense
Princesse, toi tu pars

Dans ton grand jardin
De Saint-Martin
La nuit tu planes pour oublier
Ceux qui accourent
Toujours sans s'annoncer
Dans ton grand jardin
My Princess stands for all to see
The way she lives
Her way to be

Princesse, tous ces matelots
Transportés par le vent
Sur ton îlot
Tour à tour t'entraînent
Sur les vagues d'un rêve
d'enfant gâtée qui prend son temps
Qui joue à la marelle
Qui oublie son passé
Qui tire de l'aile
Quand dans ton miroir
Tu déposes un brouillard
Qui danse
Princesse, quelque part

Dans ton grand jardin
De Saint-Martin
La nuit tu planes pour oublier
Ceux qui accourent
Toujours sans s'annoncer
Dans ton grand jardin
You know the way you long to be
Strong and gracious
Wild and free

[Nathalian]

There´s a song in Brazil (it´s called : Olhar 43-Look 43) that is like this:

Stephanie de Mônaco,
Aqui estou, inteiro ao seu dispor!
That means..:

Stephanie of Monaco,
Here I am, all to you!

[michelle]

Words of Stephanie, in 1991:

( This is a very cute interview that Christophe Dechavanne made with Stephanie when she was 26 years old)


CD: Your profession - is it singer or princess?

S: Singer. Princess is not a profession it's something that you are, a state. For me, being a singer means being able to share.

CD: you wrote a song for your mother. You were very close?

S: Yes, she was my best friend , a wonderful woman. I know she'd proud of me today.

CD: I've read that , when you were little you were always standing on the diving board at your pool, singing. Did you dream of singing on stage for a big crowd?

S: Yeah I was dreaming about that.

CD: And now you gonna jump?

S: Yes I really would love to.

CD: What are you going to do if your new album won't be as succsessful you wish?

S: I'll run to the recordimg studio and make a new one.

CD: Canadian singer Roch Voisine dedicated a love song to you. How do you take that?

S: That's so nice, really really sweet. I'm flattered.

CD: Have you met him?

S: No never

CD: A singer who declares his love for you in public. You don't want to meet him?

S: Maybe yes, but I don't want to help another story to find its way.

CD: What would be the most beautiful compliment that could be made to you?

S: If someone told me his honest opinion and respect me.

CD: Are you afraid of fans?

S: No but I fear crowded situation that can become dangerous for everyboy.

CD: That's why you have bodyguards?

S. Yes

CD: That doesn't bother you?

S: One gets used to it.

CD: The 'Daily Express' made a list of all your lovers...it was long?!

S: 90% of it is false. They always invent stories. I once asked my dad why people always tell those stories about Caroline and me, he said: ' If you were ugly and unatracktive noone would invent lovers. ' So I think I have to see the positive things.

CD: Ah...ok. So they never really invented really bad things?

S: Oh yes they did. After my mothers death they said that I killed her. Saying that about a 17 year old lil' girl that's really hard. And then they say that everything, but the metro, has already had the chance to go over me ( means had sex with her) ...well if that's not a bad thing to say I don't know.

CD: So you are well aware of these rumours?

S: Oh yes and there was a time when it really hurt me but now I think the best thing to do is to ignore this. They don't deserve beeing recognized at all.

CD: If you read all those stories written about you, do you feel like the write less about your sister?

S: No, my sister had to take a huge part of bad and cheap stories herself as well.

CD: Is Caroline a role model for you?

S: She's my sister, I adore her but we're too different, very different so it's difficult to say that she's my role model. But I admire her so much. She has sufferd a lot.

CD: Would you like to have children, and if yes, how many?

S: Three or four. I hope I find enough time ( smiles)

CD: And for the first one - do you have a time limit?

S: No not really but I don't wanna be too late.

CD: Do you feel ready to have a child?

S: Yes

CD: Do you want me to make..... you being a mommy (grin)

S: (grin) Well, no, not right away....

CD: Could you imagine to have kids without beeing married?

S: Hmm...that's difficult but nowadays that is very frequent so...for me I could have a child if I live with the baby's father.

CD: What would your father say?

S: I think he'd be fine with it.


to be continued ....

[Piewi]

Great michelle, i love it! Steph want her children have a father, and although she is divorsed i think that Daniel and G.... (i don´t remember his name, sorry) are good father, worst it´s no have one, no?
Well thanks again!

[simon]

This interviewer seems to be a funny guy.
He dares to ask Stephanie if she wants him to make her pregnat?! Haha :-)
She's very spontanouas with her replys - it would be great if you continue to post the rest of the interview soon.
Thank you very much.

I just love that girl. She has always been our sweet little princess here in Monaco.

[monaco70s]

Great interview :)

[michelle]

2nd part of the interview - 1991

CD: Are ther things you would like to say sorry for?

S: Yes, I haven't always been ver, very nice towards my family and friends.
I believe that everyone at age 18 feels like leaving home, creating his own life, beeing free. And people want to do this on there own without parents and family. And it's true that this was how I felt like. When I was very little already I had a lot of things that I wanted to do...and I'm pigheaded...when I have an idea .....wow...I can tell you....I go for it.

CD: Where do you feel best? In Paris, Los Angeles, Monaco? Do you feel at home somewhere?

S: Certainly in Monaco. Here I feel good. There was a time when I found Monaco was too small and not very exciting, especially in winter. Today, I love to be there. I spend the winter in Monaco.

C.D: : Do you have friends in Paris?

S: No, I have friends in Los Angeles and in Monaco. Don't have friends in Paris anymore :-(

C.D: Are you jalous?

S: No, in general I'm not. But it happens that I get jalous about a long married couple who is together for all their life. I know I'd like to be like them at their age.

C.D: Do you think that such a relationship is still possible these days?

S: I hope so...it's just beautiful ....but I think it's more difficult because people don't believe in it anymore or they don't want to.

C.D: Have you ever tried to imagine yourself at the age of 50 ?

S: Yeah...even though I'm not one of those making long term projects.

C.D: But you make long term projects with your music.

S: Yes, but I don't want to imagine myself at 50 physicly, because I'm at my 100% now and that traces.

C.D: You're magnificant your highness....My I ask you about your age?

S: I'm 26 years old.

C.D: Are you afraid of aging?

S: No, not at all.

C.D: And that your body ages?

S: Well, that's why I take care of it . I do gym and sit ups and if I have time I do sum jogging.

C.D: What are your hobbies, your highness?

S: Sleeping. I sleep a lot.I play golf and I take care of my dogs. If I have one day off then I hang out at home in my pyjamas or I spend my time with Andrea, Charlotte and Pierre.

C.D: Do you go to the movies between golf sessions and siestas?

S: Not very much. I watch the films on video. ...but most of the time I take care of my two nephews and my little niece.

C.D: What profession did you want to have when you where little?

S: First I wanted to become a veterinerian doc. and later I wanted to be a clown at a circus....and finally I wanted to become a fashion designer...and that's what I did.

C.D: You are a champ in drawing?

S: No, not really...I'm not capable of drawing some nature with trees and flowers....

C.D: But you know how to draw and design a dress?

S:Yes, the fashion design stuff I like a lot. After I had passed my A-levels I studied at some fashion school in Paris.

C.D: Do you have a mentioning ( mention - french grade addition for school grading) with your bac ( A-levels) ?

S. Yes, mention assez bien ( fairly good, good enough)

C.D: Bravo. What's the first thing you do in the morning?

S: I stretch my limbs.

C.D: The second thing?

S: I go and make pipi.

C.D: Until here everything's normal ....the last thing you do before you go to bed?

S: If I don't fall asleep before I switch of the TV.

C.D: How do people call you? Do they call you Your Highness?

S: It depends...in Monaco they call me Your Highness ( Altesse).
and otherwise people call me Mademoiselle ( Miss)

C.D: Tell me, Mademoiselle - did you ever happen to drink to forget?

S: Yes, I think that happens to us all.

C.D: You're right.Do you have a certain phobeía?

S: Yes, I fear the panic. For example being in a cinema or Restaurant when there's fire.

C.D: What do you like the most about yourself?

S: My sense of humor I guess...and my eyes.

C.D: And the least?

S: I don't like my hands and feet.

C.D: What do you wish for?

S: Many, many , many wonderful things.

C.D: I wish you the best.

S: Thank you. Me too, sir.

[simon]

Thanks for this inteview.
She is stil my one and only 'princess of sweetness'

[monaco70s]

Great interview

[simon]

Little song for Stephanie, my love :

Pour le meilleur, et aussi pour le pire
Pour toutes ses douleurs et pour tout les rires
Pour la chaleur de son corps qui soupire
Pour ses yeux qui pleure quand je l'a fait souffrir
Pour le terrible manque d'elle quand elle s'en va
Pour les nuits sans sommeil quand on ne s'aime pas
J'attendrai le silence, pour ne pas lui mentir
j'apprendrai son abscence, quand elle voudra partir
J'lui donnerai mes nuits blanches, mes rêves et mes délires
Les matins, les dimanches, les ailes pour s'enfuire
J'lui apprendrai l'amour celui qu'on fait à deux
Celui qui est là toujours, quand il en manque un peu

Elle est ma tendresse, elle a mon amour
J'veux pas qu'on m'la blesse, j'veux personne autour
Elle est mon espace, mon identité
Le vrai dans la glace, quand j'veux m'regardé

J'apprendrai les couleurs qui tissent les étoiles
J'remplierai son coeur de tout c'qui fait pas mal
J'arreterai le temps, quand elle voudras grandir
Pour elle je ferais en grand tout ce qu'elle n'ose pas dire
Je lui donnerai les mots qui n'ont pas d'importance
Et qui pose le pot sur un amour intense
J'lui donnerai du soleil avec du bleu immense
Pour pas qu'elle se reveille du côté des silences

Elle est l'étrange certitude
Le manque qui empêche de rever
Pour tout ceux qui s'aiment par habitude
Et qui s'appartienne à moitié

[michelle]

Awwww....this is the most wonderful love song I've ever known.
It's Roch Voisine as well, right?! I have the song on CD.
Maybe we should provide a translation simon....

[simon]

Oh, sorry yes sure I will try to give a translation:

She is my tenderness

For the best and also for the worse
For all her pain and also for her joy
For the heat of her body that breathes
For her eyes that cry when I make her suffer
For the terrible feeling of missing her when she is away
For the night without sleep when we don't love
I'll wait for the silence. I dont want to lie to her
I'll learn to cope with her abence when she wants to leave
I'll give her my night awake, my dreams and all my fever
The morning,every sunday and wings to escape
I'll teach her love, the love of two
The one which i always there when it is missing

She is my tenderness, she is my love
I don't want her to be hurt, I don't want anyone around
She's my space, my identity
The truth in a mirror when I want to look at myself

I'll learn about the colours that make the stars
I'll fill her heart with everything that doesn't hurt
I'll stop time from going on if she wants to grow
For her I will do everything that she doesn't even dare to say
I'll give her my words even with no greater meaning
I'll give her luck for our intensive love
I'll give her the sun with immensly blue arund
For that she doesn't wake up on the wrong side of silence

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[Piewi]

Oh my gosh! That love song almost kill me , it is one of the most beutiful love songs that i ever heard ( read in this time). It is so cute and loving and....aawww gourgeus :)
Thanks for the translation Simon! Definitly you are the best for Steph, she is lucky woman! :p

[michelle]

It is such a wonderful lovesong.... the french makes you even more shiver...and when you listen to it...it's ....awwww...breathtaking.
You're a cutie, Simon....Steph absolutely deserves you ( or my brother )

If I find the song online...I'll give you the link...you gotta listen to it....:)

[simon]

Originally Posted by michelle

It is such a wonderful lovesong.... the french makes you even more shiver...and when you listen to it...it's ....awwww...breathtaking.
You're a cutie, Simon....Steph absolutely deserves you ( or my brother )

If I find the song online...I'll give you the link...you gotta listen to it....:)

I would sing it for all of you, if I could

[michelle]

Awww that's very nice, Simon ....

I found a link that provides a little extract of the song: ( sorry for the bad quality )

Elle est ma tendresse

[simon]

Thank you for providing that link - isn't that song beautiful? Just right for my love Stephanie.

[tanya]

stephanie of monaco is very intersting it is never boring reading about her.

[sebastian]

Hey Simon, I have a song for Stephanie as well.

Check this out :p :

Beautiful


Like a thunderstorm on a summer day
She came out of nowhere and that can say
She´s a supernova shinin´ through the night
A never sleeping satellite

She´s a damn good reason for the sun to ride
When you see her smile in the morning light
When she cries, she cries a wishing well
Played hide and seek with the hounds of hell

She throws you down to take you high
Into her private sky

She´s so
Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Magical, mystical, irresistible, cosmical
A wonderful overkill and most of all beautiful
Ooooh ooh ooh aha
Ooooh ooh ooh
She´s so oooh ooh ooh
aha oooh ooh ooh
Beautiful
mmh so beautiful

You wanna call her name from the highest hill
And she´s better than a 5-million-dollar bill
She swims with you to atlantis´ coast
To keep you save while the world explodes

She´s diving down to keep you high
Inside her velvet sky

She´s so
Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Magical, mystical, irresistible, cosmical
A wonderful overkill and most of all beautiful
Ooooh ooh ooh
She´s so beautiful
She´s so oooh ooh ooh
Aha oooh ooh ooh
Beautiful

She´s a mermaid who´s left her fairytale
She wrote a brandnew song for the nightingale
Sometimes I think she´s invented but
Thank-god she´s made of flesh and blood.

She´s everything I´ve ever missed the more
But most of all she is

Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful
Beautiful wonderful powerful magical mystical
Irresistible overkill and most of all beau-ti-ful
Ooooh ooh ooh aha
She´s so beautiful
She´s so oooh ooh ooh
Aha oooh ooh ooh