Charlotte Casiraghi and Dimitri Rassam, two in love at the Rose Ball

After two years of forced break (due to Covid) in the Principality of Monaco, the Rose Ball. In the Salle des Etoiles of Sporting Monte-Carlo there was the almost complete Grimaldi family. Unique big absentees: Stéphanie e Charlène. The latter is still weak after months of ordeal, but everyone hopes that it will be present at the Red Cross Gala scheduled for 18 July. As always, the princess was the hosts of the event in favor of the Princess Grace Foundation Carolina together with his brother Albertowhich this year at Sporting Monte-Carlo have hosted 800 guests including Fanny Ardant, Janet Jackson and Christian Louboutincreative director of the 66th edition of the Rose Ball inspired by the 1920s.

The event, of course, saw many other crowned heads of the Rocca parade in addition to Carolina and Alberto: Pierre Casiraghi with his wife Beatrice Borromeo, Andrew Casiraghi with his wife Tatiana Santo Domingo, Alexandra of Hanover with boyfriend Ben Sylvester Strautmann. But the photographers’ eyes were focused above all on Charlotte Casiraghi and your husband Dimitri Rassam, in its third public appearance within a few months. The two, already seen last May at the Cannes Film Festival, had then reappeared in Rome in June on the occasion of the wedding of a couple of family friends. Now they are back: beautiful, smiling and in love more than ever. This is demonstrated by the photos of the gala evening (see gallery below), some of which shared by Alberto II on his Instagram profile.

The latest public appearances of Charlotte and Dimitri – who got married in summer 2019 and have a three-year-old son, Balthazar – are been small events who have silenced, at least for now, the rumors that every two by three they give their marriage up for dead. Charlotte – sixth in line to the throne, without being a princess – since she married Dimitri has chosen to move away from the Principality to live in the greenery of Barbizon, a stone’s throw from the French capital, on the edge of one of the most beautiful forests in Europe. And by disappearing from the radar of the media, it has fed exponentially the rumors and gossip that already naturally surround the royals. Especially those about alleged black crises with Dimitri Rassam. In the face of gossip, the two, at the last edition of the Rose Ball as well as in previous public appearances, appeared in love and happy more than ever.

At the most glamorous event in the Principality, another couple caught everyone’s attention: the one formed by the 22-year-old Alexandra of Hanover, Carolina’s youngest daughter, with Ben-Sylvester Strautmann, 23 years old, scion of a family of German millionaires, great sportsman. The two have been engaged since 2016, and even though they are very young, their union appears so stable and happy that the French media have no doubts: in the Principality of Monaco, soon, a new one will be staged. royal wedding.

Other stories of Vanity Fair that may interest you:

• Caroline of Monaco, Charlotte Casiraghi, Beatrice Borromeo and the others: the Grimaldis “on a wedding” in Rome
• Charlotte Casiraghi and Dimitri Rassam, how romantic the Cannes red carpet is
• Beatrice Borromeo and Pierre Casiraghi, two in love at the royal wedding