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How can they be lonely if they're together? Just because they're not surrounded by a whole gaggle of people or by Alex's siblings shouldn't mean that they're lonely. Maybe it's just because we're so used to getting pics with Caroline and one of her older children, but honestly she looks fine to me. Good riddance, Ernst, and I'm sure she's enjoying raising her daughter.
I don't know... but looking at these pictures, it makes me feel kind of sad thinking about the two women - mother and daghter -, just the two of them alone for Easter. I don't obviously know if they were actually just the two of them in St Remy, but i can't help a certain sense of loneliness emerging from watching those pics...
Very interesting article. Love how the personal impact of her mother still lingers in Princess Caroline.
A Brush With Art, and Royalty, in Monaco - NYTimes.com
You are correct when you state my comment about Ernest as my opinion.A few remarks:
Frelinghighness, you are entitled to your opinion: “I certainly don't miss Ernst”. Trying to see things from Alexandra’s point of view, (which we are not privy to, but we might be able to guess, perhaps wrongly) might have induced you to wonder if Alexandra misses her father, as we all lamented the loss of Stefano in his children’s lives. I do agree with you though, that Alexandra has become a real beauty.
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ph that pic with the paparazzi near her is scary !
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Here are some more pics - according to the caption they were taken yesterday, April 9:
** Pic 1 ** Pic 2 ** Pic 3 ** Pic 4 **
** zimbio/Bauer Griffin: Princess Caroline of Monaco Out for Easter **
This kind of pictures of Caroline really astonish me. Imagine this woman, who is one of the most (or maybe the most, after late Pcs Diana) photographed women in the world. This woman called one of the most beautiful woman of the 20th Century, of the most elegant and the best known. During her life she passed through the highest compliments and admiration, the extreme hapiness and the extreme saddnes.
So this woman, with a life full of everything, now accepts to age with elegance. She did not fall into the trapp of trying to keep her extreme beauty, by plastic surgeries and other means. She has a daughter who is already a woman, but she did not fall into the trapp of comparing herself with her daughter.
Caroline is still beautifull, always elegant, but her most impoprtant beauty is that she accepts that time is running.
If you note the main picture yes she is, and in numerous other photos she continues to wear it.Is she still wearing her wedding band?
I agree with a lot of what you say, Fandesacs. However, your post does not take the media spin on the princess into account. Like all princesses, and Caroline in particular because she happened to be young, hip and cool at just the right time, the media love to portray her as “one of us, just like us” as well as “special, different, a cut above”. So in her adolescence we had Princess Caroline at all the gala balls, more glamorous than they are now thanks to Princess Grace’s flair for visibility through drama and elegance, but Caroline had to shed a pretty dress she was wearing (and I don’t mean a gala dress: I am referring to a Vogue shoot when she was 17), to don some jeans to be “une jeune fille comme les autres”, (a girl like any other), and this theme was repeated ad nauseum. Honestly, if she did go out to get a baguette and was all put together, the media would point out that Caroline manages to, effortlessly, that’s a key word, dab on some blush and lipstick and look fantastic. So they’ll take what they get. Casual? She is awesome and all the more because she dares age gracefully. Made-up and put together? She is awesome because she manages to do what few of us can, always look her best.
The process of identification, dis-identification, has been going for decades. She is of course more sophisticated than the rest of us, with her reading a book a day, attending all the symphonies and art gallery openings, forming strong educated opinions about everything under the sun with the best mentors the world has to offer. But she is first and foremost a mom, like many of us, and a darn good one at that too. A role model for everything. Except when you scratch the surface, all is not so rosy and hunky-dory.
Am I judging her? Far from it. Judging her fans? Even less, I remain one of her fans and enjoy, like everybody else, these pictures of Caroline scarfing down a pizza with her kids tugging along, cheering at her daughters’ performances at competitions, and looking smashing for special events.
In summary, what the media constantly remind us to do is “identify all you want, up to where there’d be no magic or mystery left to make Princess Caroline and family topics of debate and interest that sell.”
By the way, Freelinghighness, (post 558), I salute you for being perhaps the only one in these forums to never “dream … of trying to deduce the thoughts and feelings of royals from paparazzi pictures (as being) pure speculation and imagination.” It's nice to know, "for the record", that you assume all children love their parents. (..)
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