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Pauline Ducruet remembers her childhood in a circus: “They were years of absolute freedom”

Pauline Ducruet, daughter of Stephanie of Monaco and the former bodyguard Daniel Ducruet, lived a not princely and very extravagant childhood. A few years after her parents’ divorce in 1996, she, the brother Louis and the half sister Camille Gottlieb (born from the relationship with Jean Raymond Gottlieb, former bodyguard) have toured Europe with a circus company Swiss, which also included the elephant trainer Franco Knie: mother Stéphanie in 2001 fell in love with him to the point of running away with him, taking her three children with him.

Pauline, who is now 27 years old, interviewed by Sunday Telegraph spoke for the first time of those years. Revealing to keep beautiful memories: “That period of my childhood was absurd, but interesting. I was always outdoors with animals ed I was with guys from all over the world: Germans, English, Italians, Spaniards… We had our own little language. It was a moment of pure freedom, which I don’t think many guys can enjoy “. An experience that changed her life: she herself wanted to pursue a career as an acrobat and later as a professional diver (in 2010 she represented the Principality at the World Youth Diving Championships in Germany and at the Singapore Youth Olympics).

The years with the traveling circus ended in 2004, when Pauline he returned to Munich with his mother, who had also just broken up with her second husband, the Portuguese acrobat Adana Lopez Peres. Today Pauline – sixteenth in line of succession to the throne of Munich – is a happily girl girlfriend (with Maxime Giaccardi) it’s a’appreciated stylist which recently presented its second collection at Paris Fashion Week. But her circus childhood, a childhood of “absolute freedom”, will always remain in her heart.

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