Now I understand better. She's his 'live-in' girlfriend, I guess. She's his lover. In terms of people at court knowing, I'm sure they've seen this before (they knew abut NC and all the others). It just this time with CW, it's being played out in public view to an extent, in the magazines and such, which for PA has not happened for a while (in public with a girlfriend, I mean). I'm sure his staff has seen it all though.
Ok, so maybe she's living off of Albert (of her own free will, of course).
How did CW support herself before? How did she derive her income?
So, it has been clearly established by her own interviews that CW has no college education and she is a high school drop-out. It is documented that circumstances like hers would mean serious difficulty in terms of future stability, especially for a woman. It means unless she changes things, usually the woman is bound to be totally dependant on someone else for her well-being.
It seems CW is "using what her mother gave her" to get onto the balcony in MC and presumably now she's into one of PA's apartments in Paris, and is working hard to transform that into a proposal from him (hoped for eventually, but CW needs to get to and keep the 1st and exclusive with PA - as spoken by her father in his most recent interview with the press).
I think it's funny to see this posturing and positioning that her father and granny have been doing in their interviews with the press and how CW herself has been operating in the press and in public. It brings to mind the stories I've heard of long ago how families would bring/send their daughters to court hoping that the king would notice her and then decide to make the girl 'his favorite' because of all the benefits it could bestow on her/them. Same thing going on here, imo.
So, this is my question; how has CW been supporting herself?
I mean, ok, she swam at the Olympics a few years ago and placed 5th or 6th overall or something like that, but that's about it. Nothing much to trade on today because it's long past. She admits to having no formal education (which does not mean she is not charming and intelligent, btw). But it translates to no real career prospects, no earning potential at all. CW claims to be a 'professional swimmer'. Does anyone know if she has had any commercial endorsements? Who is her sponsor or is she still even considered part of the SA swim team? Who has been taking care of her then? Has she been living off the resources of the SA swim team, or her parents? Her own savings? A prior boyfriend?
Just where was she getting the money to support herself before now? Was she really famous in SA? Did she ever have any type of gainful employment -- or is she basically unemployed? I am not asking that to take anything away from her either. CW has to make her way in this world like everyone else.
I think it's interesting and I'd certainly like to know.