Stéphanie of Monaco, the proud mother of Pauline Ducruet

At 57 years old Stéphanie of Monacothe former rebel of the Monegasque royal family, she considers herself “above all a mother”. And indeed to the Paris Fashion Weekwhile admiring the catwalk collection of the second born designer Pauline Ducruet, she had the adoring and proud look of any mother. Sitting in the first daughter with a lot of cell phone in hand to immortalize her important family event. Mother and daughter were together too backstage before the show. And the flashes have captured all the tenderness that binds them, including kisses, hugs and complicit smiles (see gallery under).

Born in 1994, Pauline was born from her mother’s relationship with Daniele Ducruet, his former bodyguard. A story that lasted shortly: the father was photographed in intimate attitudes with a stripper and the princess immediately put an end to the marriage from which he was born. Louis Ducruet. Then came the third child Camille Gottlieb, the result of the relationship with Jean Raymond Gottlieb, another former bodyguard. The three children of the princess as children have toured Europe with a circus company Swiss, which also included the elephant trainer Franco Knie: mum Stéphanie in 2001 fell in love with him to the point of running away with him, taking the three children with him.

Pauline, interviewed by Sunday Telegraphlast October spoke for the first time of those years. Revealing to have wonderful memories: “That period of my childhood was absurd, but interesting. I was always outdoors with animals and 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 Youth Olympics in Singapore).

The years with the traveling circus ended in 2004when 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 Munich throne – is a happily girl girlfriend (with Maxime Giaccardi) it’s a’appreciated stylist who has just experienced, under the adoring gaze of mother Stéphanie, her debut at Paris Fashion Week.