With her illustrated Christmas greeting, Charlène von Monaco shows a completely different approach than usual. What is behind the painted family portrait?
Monaco – The Monegasque royals are grabbing one for this year’s Christmas card. Usually the same motif of the family under the Christmas tree would be, but the picture would be a real photo and everything would be bathed in celebratory shine and glamor. Does an illustration symbolize the spatial distance between the Charlène (43) and their loved ones? *
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Is the hidden message that the Princess cannot spend Christmas with her family? That is the question that many are likely to ask themselves through Charlène’s Christmas greeting. “I wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas time with all my love,” wrote the mother of the country on the photo of Charlène of Monaco in a golden dress and husband Prince Albert II (63), posing in front of a Christmas tree. Next to them are their 7-year-old twins, Hereditary Prince Jacques with a silver bell and Princess Gabriella with a splendid Christmas tree ball.
In recent years, the four have shown themselves on glamorous cards in festive robes amid elegant décor. Last year Albert even demonstrated his humorous side dressed in red with reindeer glasses and a Santa Claus hat on Christmas Day.
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Only a few days after Charlène’s month-long stay at home, the native South African disappeared again. As Albert announced, due to “profound general exhaustion”. Since then, the Wittstock family and the Grimaldis have stood by Prince Albert * in his duties. The former Olympian addressed her children with sweet birthday greetings *, allegedly from Switzerland, where she is supposed to be looking forward to her recovery in a clinic.
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The hopes that the twin mother could spend the feast of love by the side of her children and the prince * were high, now it remains to be seen whether the card can be understood as a hidden reference to a painted dream scenario. * 24royal.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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