Grace, Caroline and Charlotte. . . it's all in the genes!

[thekla]

Originally Posted by Johnnie

Okay gang, I don't mean to start a war here! :-)

After perusing numerous pics of Charlotte over the years, I must say that, while I do find her to be very cute with an exceedingly attractive face, I just don't find her to be as gorgeous/classically beautiful as many think she is.

Again, don't get me wrong here - Charlotte is a very pretty young woman, but....I just don't see how she is ranked as one of Europe's top beauties. Alas, it's all in personal perception, one would suppose.

Who knows, perhaps she will develop more strikingly beautiful features as she matures?

In my opinion, it's Camille - Stephanie's youngest daughter, who is the 'one' to watch for. This little girl is going to be an absolute stunner!

I couldn't agree more! She's not very tall and has not the proportions to make her outstanding (long legs, nice shoulders and chest). Her shape goes more after her paternal grandmather rather than Princess Grace. She definitly will have to watch her weight in her later years.
You're right - Camille will be the stunner - a perfect mixture between Princess Grace and the striking features of Stephanie. Also the only blond of all the female grandchildren.
Compare her to cousin Alexandra and form your opinion - yes there's a justice

[sandsla]

Wow, these are some pretty sexist remarks! Unless you look like Barbie with a specified height and body measurement one is unattractive? I think all three women are beautiful and have their own unique beauty in their own way! As it should be! Everyone has their own idea of beauty I guess? I think if there is beauty inside it usually shows through to the outside! I believe the reverse is also true!

[Cassi]

One week ago, I saw the Grace Kelly photo exhibition. It is in Vienna now. It shows 120 pics of her from childhood to her time as a princess. And it shows a documentary, the one where Lizanne, her sister talks and with many private homevideos from Grace Kelly as a little kid. I never saw it before and it is really interesting. They interviewed as well some ex-colleauges from her Hollywood days. And they all described her as sweet, fun loving but also disciplined and ambitious (in a good way).

After seeing the pics and the film she is IMO the most beautiful woman I ever saw. She was just so perfect, she never looked messy. But I read somewhere she wished to dress as an old bag lady to be in Paris without being noticed. Maybe she was sometimes sick of the perfection and of course of the paparazzis.

Caroline and Charlotte are just another type because they are dark. In their faces you can see some Grace Kelly features. Charlotte is a good mixture of the Grimaldis, the Kellys and the Casiraghi. Her look is really special. She has one of the most interesting and beautiful faces. You just don`t get bored of her face. It is fascinating.

But Grace Kelly was perfect as a whole person. She had a perfect body, face and perfect hair.

Does anyone know how tall she was? (in cm)

[zembla]

Charlotte, Caroline and even Stephanie's young daughter all have that Grace face...you can see it in side by side comparisons. Stephanie's daughter in one pic looked a lot like a young Grace.

[tan_berry]

Originally Posted by sandsla

Wow, these are some pretty sexist remarks! Unless you look like Barbie with a specified height and body measurement one is unattractive? I think all three women are beautiful and have their own unique beauty in their own way! As it should be! Everyone has their own idea of beauty I guess? I think if there is beauty inside it usually shows through to the outside! I believe the reverse is also true!

This is an interesting and original idea, really, that external beauty can influence inside beauty. I am not so sure about it like about the reverse. And I think that is the case with Grace and her children and Charlotte. Both outside and inside are luminous. Charlotte, especially, she looks to me like an extremely nice person, not at all arrogant or proud. I also have an idea similar to the one expressed in "Story of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde, that with time flesh and soul become one, soul modifies flesh. In real life that happens without a Faustian pact with Satan: opaque feelings and actions create a disgusting aura in a face over time, like happened to Dorian Grey´s hidden picture.

[oxygen]

Originally Posted by Cassi

Does anyone know how tall she was? (in cm)

I remember reading in biographies that she was around 170 cm.

[sandsla]

Originally Posted by tan_berry

This is an interesting and original idea, really, that the external beauty can influence the inside beauty. I am not so sure about it like about the reverse. And I think that is the case with Grace and her children and Charlotte. Both the outside and the inside are luminous. Charlotte, especially, she looks to me like an extremely nice person, not at all arrogant or proud. I also have an idea similar to the one expressed in the "Story of Dorian Grey" by Oscar Wilde, that with time the flesh and the soul become one, the soul modifies the flesh. In real life that happens without the Faustian pact, opaque feelings and actions create a disgusting aura in a face over time, like happened to the hidden picture of Dorian Grey.

Perhaps I worded that badly, but I thought it was obvious what I meant, if you're ugly on the inside no matter how you look on the outside your true character & personality well show through! -- And that has away of diminishing anyone's physical attractiveness (IMO). That is why I think some people have IT, and others don't! (sorry for the confusion in the wording)

[giov]

Originally Posted by sandsla

Perhaps I worded that badly, but I thought it was obvious what I meant, if you're ugly on the inside no matter how you look on the outside your true character & personality well show through!

I do agree about the true character & personality, but unfortunately there are so many "devil people", with "angel" faces, who can hide their true character for long time.
Obviously that's not Charlotte's case. I do agree she looks nice and I think she is really nice.

[poppy7]

Originally Posted by thekla

I couldn't agree more! She's not very tall and has not the proportions to make her outstanding (long legs, nice shoulders and chest). Her shape goes more after her paternal grandmather rather than Princess Grace. She definitly will have to watch her weight in her later years.
You're right - Camille will be the stunner - a perfect mixture between Princess Grace and the striking features of Stephanie. Also the only blond of all the female grandchildren.
Compare her to cousin Alexandra and form your opinion - yes there's a justice

How mean spirited of you. Camille and Alexandra are little girls, and it is cruel to compare their appearance, in such a cruel fashion. Charlotte is a very goodlooking girl, and seeing as body type, and weight, usually come from the mother's side, I presume she will take after Princess Caroline, as she gets older. To make such comments on her legs, shoulders, and chest is just plain rude. I mean it is those kind of comments that make our world into the beauty obsessed culture it is. If a girl like Charlotte can be picked apart, in such a degrading fashion, what hope is there for most of us 'average joes' in the world, and as if being blond is important, Grace herself helped her blondness along, as she got older, with a little help from the dye bottle.

[coco]

Originally Posted by thekla

I couldn't agree more! She's not very tall and has not the proportions to make her outstanding (long legs, nice shoulders and chest). Her shape goes more after her paternal grandmather rather than Princess Grace. She definitly will have to watch her weight in her later years.
You're right - Camille will be the stunner - a perfect mixture between Princess Grace and the striking features of Stephanie. Also the only blond of all the female grandchildren.
Compare her to cousin Alexandra and form your opinion - yes there's a justice

I agree that Charlotte has not the perfekt body but she is definitely a very unique and beatiful lady. Nobody's perfect.
About Camille. I also agree that she could become the stunner in a few years. But at the moment it is her and not Charlotte who has to watch her weight.
Charlotte had a few ups and downs with her weight in the last years. I remember some rumors in a magazine that she is pregnant when she was 18 in 2005. At the age of 17 she was pretty thin. But she was never overweight. But Camille is overweight at the moment, look in the Steph and family threats.
I think Camille looks a lot like her mother but not like Grace.
Charlotte looks like Caroline and sometimes they both look a bit like Grace.
And Pierre looks alot like his father!

[Lozange]

All these girls are still so young and yet opinions are formed already. I don't think a woman in her 20's is even fully developed. They are still untouched by life, have no gravity, barely any maturity. With time, we'll see who becomes most interesting, but it's too early to tell. Charlotte has great style, but her mother is also very style-conscious. Stephanie's daughter will have to define her own in my opinion.

[reg709]

Originally Posted by Vera Friedel

Yes I agree either.
Charlotte took some " blondiness" from her dad Stefano so her complexion is fairer and her hair is lighter than Caroline's.

All of the Kelly's were blondes as well. Charlotte was a platinum blonde when she was a toddler where Caroline was not.

[Vera Friedel]

I have never got all the fuss over Charlotte. She has a beautiful face indeed but mom Caroline at her age was far more beautiful and interesting.
Caroline has always had that " exotic" and " intriguing "flavor that Charlotte seems to lack . SHe looks a lot like dad Stefano, she's his spitting image. Look at this picture of little Char with daddy, Stefano is * similar* to Charlotte. Same features, same facial mimic. I see no Grace in Char.

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal...asiraghi36.jpg

[poppy7]

Originally Posted by Vera Friedel

I have never got all the fuss over Charlotte. She has a beautiful face indeed but mom Caroline at her age was far more beautiful and interesting.
Caroline has always had that " exotic" and " intriguing "flavor that Charlotte seems to lack . SHe looks a lot like dad Stefano, she's his spitting image. Look at this picture of little Char with daddy, Stefano is * similar* to Charlotte. Same features, same facial mimic. I see no Grace in Char.

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal...asiraghi36.jpg

I see Stefano in Charlotte, but she is most definately more like Caroline, but not as dark and med. looking. Sometimes I do see Stefano (especially in some facial expressions), and sometimes I see Grace (more so than in Caroline). I bet if you died Charlotte's hair blond, and actually gave her a 1950's style, she would look alot like Grace. Caroline doesn't have her grandmothers (P. Charlotte) bone structure either, she has the eyes and the colouring, but the cheek bones are different, the jaw line, the nose. I don't know where Caroline and Charlotte got their cheekbones (and don't remember seeing a picture of Grace where anthing as define), but it wasn't from Princess Charlotte. Charlotte looks less like Princess Charlotte than Caroline does also, the eyes are different, and she has none of her features, more of a 'look' if you get me, that is similar.

When she was younger, Charlotte looked alot like Grace, and I am beginning to see the resemblance again, as she enters her twenties, and she is beginning to look less and less like Caroline at the same age, although there is no getting away from the strong resemblance. I wonder if it will be reversed for Alexandra, as in she will get more and more like her mother a she gets older. Who knows.

[Vera Friedel]

Stefano's mom Fernanda must have been a very beautiful woman in her youth.

[royrrules]

Originally Posted by poppy7

I see Stefano in Charlotte, but she is most definately more like Caroline, but not as dark and med. looking. Sometimes I do see Stefano (especially in some facial expressions), and sometimes I see Grace (more so than in Caroline). I bet if you died Charlotte's hair blond, and actually gave her a 1950's style, she would look alot like Grace. Caroline doesn't have her grandmothers (P. Charlotte) bone structure either, she has the eyes and the colouring, but the cheek bones are different, the jaw line, the nose. I don't know where Caroline and Charlotte got their cheekbones (and don't remember seeing a picture of Grace where anthing as define), but it wasn't from Princess Charlotte. Charlotte looks less like Princess Charlotte than Caroline does also, the eyes are different, and she has none of her features, more of a 'look' if you get me, that is similar.

When she was younger, Charlotte looked alot like Grace, and I am beginning to see the resemblance again, as she enters her twenties, and she is beginning to look less and less like Caroline at the same age, although there is no getting away from the strong resemblance. I wonder if it will be reversed for Alexandra, as in she will get more and more like her mother a she gets older. Who knows.

When you watch Grace Kelly films, esp Rear Window and To Catch A Thief, you would see where Caroline and Charlotte inherited their bone structure. Grace's face may be more square, but the cheekbones, the jaw, the neck she bequeathed to her girls.

However, if you see pictures of Grace's elder sister Peggy in her younger years, her bone structure resembles Caroline's. In other words, the structured face is a Kelly gene.

[tan_berry]

Charlotte looks sweeter than Caroline. She did not grow up being a princess and the daughter of Grace Kelly, a fairy tale princess. It seems to me, too, that she is a more serene person than her mother, less rebel. I have read that she blends in easier than Caroline. Most of you do not remember, but Caroline had all the paparazzi of the world after her since she was very young. What they did later after Diana, they did first with Caroline. Too much for an immature person.

[poppy7]

I have to pop by and say, I saw the Grace Kelly biography thingy today, and oh my god is Charlotte the absolute spit of Grace when she was in her early twenties. It is uncanny, I always thought Charlotte looked a bit like Grace, but I always saw more Caroline, but goodness,I really could not believe it. There was one picture of Grace, and she looked practically identical to one I saw of Charlotte at the recent Rose Ball. Except when Charlotte is doing the stereotypical French girl pouting/sulking thing, I really thing most of her facial expressions (including the scrunching of the face in concentration), and all of her bone structure is Grace (her cheek bones are more sculpted and she has a softer jawline, making her face feel less 'flat', if you get me, in profile). I was nearly knocked for six.

P.s Camille looks really like Lizanne Kelly.