Are you saying friends with Lagerfeld opened doors for her?
I guess you are right that her marriage to Ernst has opened doors for her in ways it hadn’t been before. She got more attention with royalty so I get it. But since their separation, it seems like other royal families don’t pay much attention to her...
Grace would have loved Stefano. I think that’s Caroline’s true love.
Sorry, for answering so late.
Well, most of her life before Ernest she was mostly known being connected to fashion but not much more. Never had a real job or something she could show or gain respect, except those very few duties she did as First Lady of Monaco after Grazia had passed away.
And of course the paps loved her, marrying a playboy first, then asking church for annulment, while ignoring church marrying the next sunnyboy, all drama the yellow press loves to make up stories about.
But it was only after she became a german princess that she could attend royal events, EA was invited because of his high position.
I do not see that EA is being ignored because of his fallouts in the past which occured AFTER he married Caroline. All these things are not to be judged by others, he holds the title and that's important for protocol.
After all he himself never searched the limelight it was Caroline, now she is gone he leads again a very private life.
I never had the impression that she would really have liked to take the role of E'wife, the royal events yes, but the "boring" rest, like minding this terribly huge castles in Germany, dealing with his ex and their sons and everything else on a daily base.
Going to a fancy royal event can be nice , but if you take a deeper look at german or austrian (where EAl likes to be) noble families most of it is not in the limelight but hard work, some are still unbelievably rich, but they live a quiet life, trying to maintain their castles and forest.....doing some charity, but being very modest.
I've never seen Caroline doing or working anything like that, which is Ok, she comes from a very little place, was obviously only expected to look nice and marry.
I do not know but think either EA really had a whirlwind affair and fell for her or the pregnancy made him marry her, after all it did not seem a clever thing to do and soon turned out a fault.
As you can see I am not d'accord with blaming only EA, there is always two and maybe his biggest fault was to believe Caroline was the right one for the job.
Caroline is back to what IMO she was never ready to leave, a life with fancy dresses, paps and parties and no real work, now her beauty fades with aging and Albert happily married her life got somehow more quiet.
I wish them happiness.