Prince Emanuele Filiberto And Clotilde Courau: News-Pictures 1: May 2003-Sept 2004


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Interesting articles. Very interesting. Thank you for posting the, Lyonnaise. :)

Clotilde is a lovely woman and may also be an actress as Grace was but that's about as far as the comparisson can go IMHO. She is lovely and seems to be a good match for E-F, though.
 
I don't know a lot about her, but she just seems to lack that certain je ne c'est quoi that Grace Kelly had. I can't put it into words exactly, but Grace had a certain air of elegance and class that was beyond words. Sort of like Jackie Kennedy. And I just don't see it in Clothilde (nor did I see it in Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy). And I don't buy for a minute that it's something Clothilde will come into in later years. Grace and Jackie had it from the get-go, they didn't develop it over years in the public spotlight or wake up with that grace and elegance just because they married into statured families.
 
(ANSA) ROMA, 20 SET - Al via la macchina organizzativa per il matrimonio di Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia e l' attrice francese Clotilde Courau, pronto anche il piano sicurezza. Il prefetto di Roma,Serra sta coordinando le operazioni. Il matrimonio si celebrera' il 25 settembre, alle 17, a S.Maria degli Angeli,in piazza della Repubblica transennata. Nella chiesa,potranno entrare solo i 1.200 invitati e i giornalisti accreditati. Seguira' un cocktail sulla terrazza dell' hotel Exedra,che si trova di fronte alla basilica.
 

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Prince Emmanuel Set to Marry

24 SEPTEMBER 2003
In what might be the most quickly-planned royal wedding in history – the engagement took place earlier this summer, the invitations sent out just over a week ago – Emmanuel Filiberto, the exiled crown prince of Italy, is set to wed French actress Clotilde Courau on Thursday.

The 30-year-old prince and his six-months' pregnant bride – who met in a celebrity event in Monte Carle three years ago – will walk down the aisle in Rome, at the historic Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli. The ceremony, according to Emmanuel, won't be "too royal".

Cocktails for 2,000 and a private dinner for 200 are on the agenda. "Mainly I am inviting friends," Emmanuel told the Sunday Telegraph. "I don't want this to be too royal. We have invited Silvio Berlusconi. He has not replied yet, but then I sent the invitiations out only last week." Among the guests will be Prince Albert of Monaco, Johnny Hallyday, John Malkovich, and fashion designers Pierre Cardin and Valentino. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles were also invited, but are unable to attend.

In addition to the celebrity-laden guest list, glamour is reflected in some of the details of the wedding as well. The 34-year-old bride will wear a Valentino gown along with a diamond tiara belonging to the House of Savoy, and the couple will exchange Damiani rings famously designed for the Italian jeweller by Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.

The last royal wedding in Italy was held more than 70 years ago when the prince's grandfather, King Umberto II married Maria Jose of Belgium. While the Italian royal family were legally banned from Italy after WWII, the government revoked the act of banishment last year, and Emmanuel and his father returned to their ancestral homeland from Switzerland.

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www.hellomagazine.com - Clotilde from last spring.
 

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Italian 'prince' to wed actress


Filiberto rejects reports that his fiancee is an "anarcho-communist"
The grandson of Italy's last king is to marry a French actress this week, after overcoming his parents' opposition.
Emmanuele Filiberto, who was allowed back into the country earlier this year, will marry Clotilde Courau in a basilica created by Michelangelo.

The bride, who is six months pregnant, was initially viewed with disaste by Filiberto's father, Vittorio Emmanuel, because of her left-wing views.

"After two weeks of cold war, love and good sense prevailed," Filiberto said.

The 31-year-old banker said media reports that his fiancee was an "anarcho-communist" were speculation.

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However he acknowledged that she was "much closer to the culture of the Left than to mine, which is more moderate."


Vittorio Emmanuel and wife Marina Doria opposed Filiberto's choice
More than 1,000 guests have been invited to the wedding, which takes place on Thursday, including fashion designer Pierre Cardin and French rock star Johnny Hallyday.

Courau will sport a Valentino dress, a diamond tiara and gems belonging to the House of Savoy.

Prince Albert of Monaco, who introduced the couple three years ago, will be a witness.

The basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels, built on the ruins of the Diocletian baths, is where Filiberto's great grandfather King Victor Emmanuel III married Helen of Montenegro in 1896.

A constitutional ban which kept the male Savoy heirs out of Italy for more than half a century was lifted late last year at the same time as the family condemned Mussolini's race laws.

The last Savoy monarch approved the laws which marked the start of the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews during World War II.
 
Royalist fury as prince marries socialist actress
By Bruce Johnston in Rome and Philip Delves Broughton in Paris
(Filed: 26/09/2003)


There was anger among Italy's conservative monarchists yesterday as Prince Emmanuel-Filiberto, second in line to the country's defunct throne, married Clotilde Courau, a French actress who is six months pregnant - and a socialist - in Rome.


Prince Emmanuel-Filiberto and Clotilde Courau at their wedding
Their hopes for a return to the glory days of the House of Savoy, whose members were allowed back into Italy last year, were dashed by a wedding criticised in Italy for being more appropriate for a footballer than a prince.

In a newspaper interview published yesterday, Emmanuel-Filiberto, 32, lashed out at critics of his bride. "First of all, Clotilde is not a communist," he said. Then referring to sniggers about her film career, he said: "Secondly, let any actress today who has not appeared in a film with her tits in the breeze, please raise her hand."

He added "I wanted the child. I have nothing to hide." Many of Europe's royalty turned down the invitation to the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, as did several of Emmanuel-Filiberto's own family because of inheritance rows with his father, Victor Emmanuel.

Among the prince's titles is that of Duke of Venice, but he chose to marry in Rome in order to re-establish links with his family's past. It was in the same basilica that his great grandparents, King Victor Emmanuel III and Elena of Montenegro, were married in 1896.

Mlle Courau, 34, has made 23 films and appeared on stage in Paris. She comes from the working class Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers and remains proudly Left-wing.
 

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I saw some pictures of Emanuelle at a disco opening.They were from October 1 and he was alone.
Did the honeymoon end so soon? And where is her preagnant wife?
 
no pix from the wed ? We could follow the whole ceremony, here in Italy, on Sky 24 TV , she was so beautiful, she will be a real Princess, King Umberto II would have liked her so much, she has charm and elegance, I loved him , too, he looked so young and happy.
 
Originally posted by stacy@Dec 3rd, 2003 - 7:46 pm
EF seems to have been in a motor accident today, he has a broken  leg and ??
anyone who can translate ?
link - in italian
Lukasz wrote at the FIRMB:
"He had a motorbike accident when going to his work in Geneva. His arm and leg are broken and he stays in hosptal but his life is not in danger."

So I guess EF will be fine :)
 
does anyone know when the baby is due....
it should be soon
 
I believe she's scheduled to deliver the baby by Caesarian-section on the 21st of this month. The baby will be born in Geneva rather than in Rome as had been planned.
 
Princess Clotilde of Savoy has given birth yesterday in Genève at 19:32 to a baby girl, who has been given the name, according to the Corriere della Serra, Vittoria (in honour of her grand-father Vittorio-Emmanuele) Cristina Adelaide Chiara Maria.
 
Congratulations to the couple! More girl power in royal births this year!

The new baby girl has some beautiful middle names in Adelaide Chiara.

Is there a historical significance to the middle names as well as the first name being for her paternal grandfather?
 
Congratulations to them and I hope she is recovering fine and I hope he is doing well now after his accident.
 
Congratulations to the new parents!

From HELLO!

29 DECEMBER 2003
Emmanuel Filiberto of Italy and his wife of three months, French actress Clotilde Courau, are celebrating the birth of a daughter, the family said in a statement on Monday.

The couple welcomed the little girl, reportedly named Maria Cristina, in Geneva early on Sunday evening.

A six months' pregnant Clotilde wed Emmanuel, who is the grandson of the last king of Italy, in Rome on September 25.

More than 1,200 guests attended the nuptials at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, with notable figures such as designer Pierre Cardin and rock star Johnny Hallyday among the invitees and Prince Albert of Monaco acting as best man.
 
Originally posted by Julia@Dec 29th, 2003 - 3:24 pm
Congratulations to the new parents!

From HELLO!

29 DECEMBER 2003
Emmanuel Filiberto of Italy and his wife of three months, French actress Clotilde Courau, are celebrating the birth of a daughter, the family said in a statement on Monday.

The couple welcomed the little girl, reportedly named Maria Cristina, in Geneva early on Sunday evening.

A six months' pregnant Clotilde wed Emmanuel, who is the grandson of the last king of Italy, in Rome on September 25.

More than 1,200 guests attended the nuptials at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, with notable figures such as designer Pierre Cardin and rock star Johnny Hallyday among the invitees and Prince Albert of Monaco acting as best man.
Maria Cristina was the supposed name, but all the italian newpapers are saying Vittoria.
 
the new born of Savoia has got the name of Cristina , as P Cristina Belgioioso, her ancestor, and Queen Adelaide, the wife of our 1st King of Italy, King Vittorio Emanuele II, though she was already dead in 1860, when he became King, so she was only Queen of Piemonte , I think she was the sister of the Emperor of France.
 
Yahoo News

Wife of Italian prince has baby daughter
Mon Dec 29,10:23 AM ET

ROME (AFP) - The grandson of the last king of Italy, Emmanuele Filiberto, and his French-born wife, Clotilde Courau, have become parents to a baby girl, the family said in a statement.

The daughter, born at 18:32 GMT in Geneva on Sunday, was named Vittoria Cristina Adelaide Chiara Maria.

Filiberto and Courau, a 31-year-old actress, were married in Rome on September 25.

In March, the prince swore loyalty to the Italian Republic under a new law which allowed descendants of former king Victor Emmanuele II to return to Italy after decades of exile.
 
Will Vittoria get a royal title?
 
Originally posted by Jelka@Jan 4th, 2004 - 8:53 am
Will Vittoria get a royal title?
Maby she will and maby she wont. I realy don´t know.
But i do know that she wont be the furtur Queen of Italiy.
 
Originally posted by Jelka@Jan 4th, 2004 - 8:53 am
Will Vittoria get a royal title?
Is Vittoria's situation (title-wise) like that of Prince Pavlos and Princess Marie-Chantal's children's situation in that neither Princes have countries to rule over (once they succeed their fathers)? In Pavlos and Marie-Chantal's situation all their children were given titles: Princess Maria Olympia, Prince Konstantine, Prince Achilleas-Andreas. So would that make Vittoria a Princess, too, (if not a future Queen).
 
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