LadyMacAlpine said:
If you honestly believed that part I bold typed than you shouldn't have been one the ones demanding recognition but supported Albert denying paternity as I did (but knowing they were)to allow his children to grow up quietly away from the press. The fact remains Tamara pushed for it and stole the freedoms these children will never know of what a normal childhood would have been like and for what? Fame and money nothing more. Albert could have still maintained a private life with these and all children he may have outside of marriage caused by accidents when the woman didn't take their birth control pills the swore they were on. And those demanding it to have something else to talk about on the Internet look at in the magazines as they try to cover their faces tired of being chased by the paparazzi etc like you keep posting the articles and photo's from.
Just my opinion.
Albert never denied the paternity of Jazmin or Alexandre - never!
Tamara sought monitary support for her daughter in the only manner that was open to her after Albert (at Rainier's bidding) cut her out of his life with an infant Jazmin, which was to seek a court order forcing him to provide her with monitary support.
How many of us here are low income single mothers as Tamara was at that time??? Seeking child support is now actually required by some states before the state will even think of providing aid to needy mothers and fathers.
It is not a question of Albert and Tamara's relationship being wrong or right it was a question of a single mother working as a waitress being able to support her child. A child that had a multi-millionaire for a father and that father's natural responsiblity to care for his own child.
After Tamara's frustrated attempts to have Albert acknowledge his daughter and accept some responsiblity for her (which is what any other mother would have done in her particular situation) she actually remained pretty low profile.
It as Nicole who actually forced the issue and wouldn't accept to keep the arrangements that she and Albert made private. She forced Albert to make it public that Alexandre was her son and that he had accepted legal responsiblity for him. Albert had been providing monitary support for both Nicole and Alexandre prior to his birth. Unfortunatly, Jazmin did not have this luxury for some time.
Once Albert went public and acknowledged Alexandre why shouldn't Tamara want the same for her daughter. I would imagine that Jazmin was more than a little wounded by not having the same acknowledment for more than 14 years that Alexandre got as an infant. They are each his children and should have been treated equally. It was mentioned at the time that Albert acknowledged her that her paternity had been "legally" established some weeks before but that both parties wanted it to remain private until Jazmin was 18. It was only the media's constant attention that forced him to make the statement.
Tamara had remained relatively mute on the matter for nearly a decade. Giving only seldom interviews with authors and reports where necessary to affirm that Jazmin was the daughter of Albert. I doubt anyone would have rolled over and suddenly decided to claim another father knowing full well that she was Albert's child. Tamara did tell John Glatt (the only member of the "press" that I have read an interview with by her since her court hearing) that Albert had never publically denied that he was Jazmin's father, and that was all she asked of him.
Tamara had nothing to do with anything that happened to Alexandre. Nicole sued for support and paternity (which was legally granted). After she got this support and legal (though private) recognition she pushed forward with the press to force Albert's hand on making Alexandre's paternity public. That was not Tamara's doing. It was more than a year later that Albert made it public that Jazmin was, indeed, his daughter.
While I disagree with the manner in which Nicole went about her plans I don't disagree with her desire to have her son formally acknowledged by his own father. I mean seriously what child wants to grow up treated as some dirty little secret and afraid to be seen in public with your father or even to tell your classmates who your father is. Can you imagine the
psychological effects this would have on any child?
Alexandre and Jazmin have done nothing wrong. They are the innocent vicitims of their own parents lust and seflishness. Now it appears they are to be the vicitims of not only the press but us, as well.
Jazmin and Alexandre together with their mother's don't appear to be in competition with anyone. They appear, to me at least, to be going about their lives now that the initial dust has settled. Jazmin travels to Monaco and France to visit her father. I certainly can't be the only person who assumes it is natural for a child to attempt to form a relationship with her father? The tabloid press snaps her in airports or leaving her father's home and she is considered to be a bad apple or courting the press by doing normal things? She seems to be a normal teenager. She's only 14 and after many, many years of having to hide who she is she's now free to openly visit her father without hiding.
She and Alexandre are just kids who need to be allowed to form a relationship with their father. They can't be blamed that the press hunts them and stalks them to see what dates they visit and waits outside their homes and schools.
Jazmin's work with the JazminFund seems rather mature and socially responsible. The pictures on her website show her trying to help others not auditioning for a role in Paris Hilton's next movie.
Neither Jazmin nor Alexandre seem to be seeking anything extraordinary. Everyone acts like that they should be shamed for being "illegitimate." No one mentions them just as Albert's children they are always "illegitimate" like that makes them any less his children. It certainly isn't going to make them want any less of a relationship with their own father.
As for looks, Jazmin is only 14. Her grand mother, Princess Grace, a notorious beauty even looked ackward at that age. Besides, aren't we as adults just a little above picking on the looks of a 14 year old kid. Both she and Alexandre are rather attractive for their respective ages.
I hope that Jazmin continues her charity work with the Jazmin Fund. If she can help another person because of being Albert's daughter then so be it. At least, she's helping someone.
Normally, I wouldn't be so tedious and long winded but it bothers me that so many are willing to villify Alexandre and Jazmin for who their father is and for having mothers who weren't wed to him, as if they themselves had a hand in the fates.
I say......When life gives you lemons why not make lemonaide!
