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The Lowell Sun
Posted: 06/24/2010 06:31:12 AM EDT
Monaco's Prince Albert bids adieu to bachelor hoodPrince Albert is giving Monaco a crown princess at last. Ditching decades of bachelorhood, the boyish if balding monarch announced yesterdayhe willmarry South African ex-swimming champion Charlene Wittstock. Albert'sbetrothed has iconic shoes to fill, stepping intoa role left vacant since thedeath of much-beloved Princess Grace in a car crash.Royal watchers were ecstatic at the announcement and many wer ewondering: Is the bespectacled playboy princemanning up? Andmostimportantly, will the 52-year-old Albert, who has acknowledged fathering twochildren out of wedlock, finally produce a legitimate heir?"It's been 30 years since Grace died, 30 years they've been waiting for a firstlady, aprincess, a dream beauty, glam.And voila!" said Colombe Pringle,
executive editor of Point de Vue magazine, which has followed Albert's
amorous adventures.The palace of the moneyed Mediterranean principality didn't say when HisSerene Highness Albert II, Grace's second child and the head of the 700-year-old Grimaldi dynasty, will marry the 32-year-old Wittstock.Albert met thewillowy blonde in 2000 when she traveled to Monaco for a swimming competition, and she has lived inthe principalitysince 2006, said Laetitia Pierrat, a palace spokeswoman.The couple are both Olympians -- Albert was a bobsledder -- and share English as one of their native tongues.Wittstock swam for South Africaat the Sydney Olympics in 2000, though she won nomedals. In the All Africa Games the year before, shewon gold in the 100-meter freestyle. Before movingto Monaco, she also worked as a schoolteacher.According to protocol, royal couples must wait atleast six months between the announcement of theengagement and the wedding day, Pierrat said.Jersey Shore cast member launches clothing lineMike "The Situation"
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