I'm really lost here. What role has Charlene usurped that is not "rightfully" her own? Do you mean some have a "right" to be a princely girlfriend and some don't? I don't do the Facebook so I've never seen her page but I don't know how much she could be exploiting her relationship with him. Do you mean she's making money off of him? First of all I would doubt that, and secondly Albert would surely know about it and could stop it if it bothered him.
What I boil things down to I guess is what exactly makes some behavior "tacky" or lacking in "integrity"? When you cut through all the words I can't come up with anything but morals being at the bottom of it. Again, I don't see what precisely he is doing that is outrageous other than that he's not married and we assume having marital "benefits". And, as far as that goes, approve or not it's very common and Albert and Charlene are not the only ones doing it. She's not the Princess of Monaco, no one is claiming that she is and I suppose it just doesn't cause me undue stress that Albert takes his girlfriend to this or that function that others judge as being too above her station. Again, I just don't see what it is *exactly* that either of them are doing that should put people off. I'm not a member of the Charlene fan club by any means but she doesn't evoke anger or outrage from me either.
Bones, I don't mean to be vague, I just didn't want to inundate the forum that day with my long posts.
.I had just posted a few lengthy post the day before so....
. I'll add the rest of my reply to the above in a later post, but I have added this today to help explain my concern, which I realize should not be mine.
Never the less.....
I just think while Albert may make some mistakes, I don't really think he's a bad person that's out to get anyone, or knowingly make someone suffer to get ahead, just for his own benefit and that is the difference between these two people for me?
First of all, it seemed that early on, from the very beginning Charlene was trying to
elbow her way into Albert's life
into a more formal position . She was using the press,
or the much publicized relationship between them in the press
to pressure Albert into more formal relationship. I believe that is why Albert felt a need to go on The Today Show
"to counter" what some others were putting out there and t
rying to capitalize on?
Early on I kept warning here how Charlene would try to play this card after she had embedded herself into Albert's life 
.. That is what you are seeing now! Albert's other women tried getting some sympathy in the same way,
but the one smart thing Albert had going for him then, is that he was smart enough to keep the relationship private and "out of the press"!
How much more difficult do you think it would have been for Albert if Nicole had had the same treatment and exposure that he has given Charlene? Don't think Charlene doesn't know this too? Albert better be very careful
because Charlene thinks her much publicized long presence there, gives her a leg up now, that the other women didn't have? And she has Albert's history to add to it, to help her along. I'm not sure what she might resort to in the end, but I wouldn't put a thing past her. If there's any question there for him about that, one would think that should be enough to end a relationship with someone
. Right now Charlene seems to be just banking on their very long publicized relationship between them, played out in the press....adding to that every official looking photo-op of herself in regard to Monaco, everything she can pull out to help her back Albert into a corner. (IMO) She is trying to work up public sympathy in an effort to make some claim that Albert is a cad for not marrying her now!!! That is the one issue I was speaking of that has been going on right now and has been, ever since she came on the public scene, except for now it's amping up because of the length of time that Albert has actually dragged her around in the public eye, and in some situations where it appears more and more that she might have some official role there (which she has knowingly elbowed her way into). Her little ploy is starting to have the desired effect that she was hoping for?
It's not too hard to figure out how much she's pushing that point on her Facebook page. It's
not so much a personal Facebook page about her, as it is a public Facebook page to highlight her relationship with Albert, or rather
The Prince of Monaco, and all her official looking photo-ops as if she really has some status there as a representative of Monaco? You honestly don't see the picture she is trying to paint and convey there? You don't think she has some motive there? And you can't see how she's trying to leverage Albert's Title to advance herself?
Armani did not hire her to be an Ambassador because of who Charlene is, but who she having a relationship with? If Charlene was a personality in her own right then that might be something different, but it is her connection to The Prince of Monaco that is being purchased, that is even more evident by the fact that Armani advertises on these forums. That is the other issue here people are having with Charlene and Albert?
The thing with these women
trying to hark back to a different time when men were expected
to do the right thing? Shotgun wedding, etc, or the idea that once they had had "Marital Relations" with a woman that they might be obligated to marry her,
in spite of the fact that she she had consented to compromise herself or ruin her own reputation and even that of her entire family. These women were usually shipped off, and shunned from society. So even if some women today are still trying to play some version of this card, what's wrong with this picture is that the
women then didn't consent to shacking up with a guy for years, take money or support from them, and then claim he was a cad for not marrying her, not even privately . Even Anne Boleyn knew the score back then, and that was many centuries ago when that was more more feasible?. These women are too much!
Bones, my problem isn't that Albert is having an adult relationship with anyone, it is to the extent that he allows himself to be manipulated by it? It's about how he has sought to publicize his personal relationship with Charlene in the media. It's less about his sex life..
