Charlène of Monaco reappears in a (beautiful) family photo

It took a long time, but it is one of the most beautiful. Charlène of Monaco is (finally) back posing with her husband Alberto and their twins, Jacques and Gabriella. And the new postcard from the Monegasque royal family who wishes a happy Easter, and sees the four together after a decidedly turbulent period. Alberto’s wife returns to the palace after a month and five days, after more than a year and a half of worrying rumors about her health conditions. Charlène has been away for a long time, skipping the traditional Christmas card of the principality and beyond. She first spent over six months in South Africa, then a brief visit to Monaco in November 2021 before disappearing again. In convalescence, you said, probably in a Swiss clinic.

On March 12, the communication of the return to the Rocca, without however any photo or family portrait, nor his presence at an official event. And now here they are sitting on the lawn of Palazzo Grimaldi, the swimming pool and a couple of palm trees in the background. Gabriella in her mother’s arms, Jacques next to her father. The princess still appears tried, but more serene.

«Their Most Serene Heights they share with joy the following information: in agreement with your doctors and given the encouraging result of the treatments, the princess will continue her convalescence in the Principality, with her husband and children by her side. The next few weeks will allow her to get even more healthy, before gradually resume your official commitments. To achieve full recovery and given his need for peace and calm, the princely couple asks for the utmost respect for one’s family and private life», This is the latest communication from the Palazzo.

The former swimmer was stranded in South Africa in May 2021. Having left for a series of commitments related to her humanitarian and animal welfare causes, she was ill almost immediately, but the reasons for her absence from the Principality were only disclosed in July. At the beginning Palazzo Grimaldi had preferred not to provide details or explanations, but when the emptiness became more and more evident, the first official announcements arrived. In an interview with the South African magazine News24Charlène revealed last July that she was blocked in South Africa for health reasons. The princess had explained that she had undergone an operation for the maxillary sinus lift, a bone graft that is performed in order to make implants in the molar area. After the operation, an infection involving the ears ensued, hence the inability to move: his hearing system could not withstand pressure greater than 20,000 feet.

Then on August 13th came the news of a new operation: an operation under general anesthesia, which lasted four hours. “Prince Albert and their children, Crown Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella will be with her during her convalescence,” read the official profile. Not an easy time, made even more difficult by the increasingly heavy voices about an alleged crisis with her husband, precisely in the year of the tenth wedding anniversary, which the two spent far away, also thanks to the travel difficulties related to the Coronavirus epidemic. Paris Match in the middle of summer he even titled the cover: “L’affaire Charlène”, the title of the article, in which he told how the princess had taken refuge in a nature reserve three hundred kilometers from Durban. “She deals with rhinos, her new passion for her”, revealed the magazine, through the indiscretions of Stéphane Bern, royal editor who has always been close to the secrets of Monaco: “Her gaze was already sad, now it seems lost”. To weigh more, understandably, distance from twin children, born in 2014.

The couple thus tried to silence the gossip, also making public the travels of Alberto and the twins in Africa. “All this chatter hurts both me and my wife”, the prince had blurted out in September, exasperated by the media pressure. In between, in addition to some surgical interventions, also an emergency hospitalization due to a collapse. Then, the first good news: “He is much better, this last operation that involved the nasal septum went very well”, Alberto’s words a few weeks ago. «We will be able to evaluate his return very soon. And I can say it will be in Munich before the National Day. It is not possible for me to give an exact date, but I promise you will know when the time comes. ‘

And now Charlène is back, at least to spend the holidays with the family. Public commitments can still wait.

@ Photos: Eric Mathon / Palais princier de Monaco