Good (news) Friday: Prince Albert’s getting married…no more babies out of wedlock!

Regular readers of this weblog know that I’ve been unsparing in my criticism of Prince Albert II of Monaco, 48, for not only living an egregiously promiscuous lifestyle but also fathering children (2 that we know of) out of wedlock. But he incited my most indignant ire after he renounced the birthright of his black son in favor of vesting it in his white nephew. And I argued that since he did this after sober deliberation – and not in a drunken (Mel Gibson) stupor – it betrayed a strain of racism in his blood that made him unworthy of membership on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), or of serving as patron of the World Music Awards, at which, ironically, mostly black celebrities praise him for his humanitarian work.

(Click here and here for previous articles in this respect.)

But the good news is that this international bounder has decided to tame his royal excesses by finally honoring his duties. And that - to help him execute them - he will announce at this evening’s Red Cross Ball in Monte Carlo that he has chosen former South African Olympic swimmer (medley-relay team, which finished 5th ) and Sports Illustrated model, Charlene Wittstock, 28, to be his princess.

Of course, Wittstock’s uncanny resemblance to Albert’s late mother Princess Grace will only add credence to longstanding rumors about his acute Oedipus complex….

NOTE: I appreciate that no matter how promiscuous and racist his character, many women would have been all too willing to sell their body and soul to be Albert’s bride. But as a consolation for having missed out on this royal opportunity, I offer all of you this unsightly glimpse into what a pyrrhic bargain your wedding night would have been:

ENDNOTE: A few months ago, Caribbean Net News (CNN) published this article, in which I lambasted Cuban exiles in Miami for threatening to ruin the Bahamian economy unless the Bahamian government breached its bi-lateral agreement with Fidel Castro to repatriate Cubans seeking refuge in The Bahamas - by sending them to Miami instead. Not surprisingly, the Cuban exiles did not appreciate my principled criticism.

Well, just imagine their self-righteous outrage when they read this article, published today, in which I chastise them for their unseemly and premature dancing on Fidel Castro’s grave....

Meanwhile, as a bonus, I suspect I’ll send Trinidad’s Brahmans into an equally imperious hissy fit with my update to last week’s article (appended to today’s CNN article), in which I had the insolence to charge one of their caste members, Satnarine Sharma, with behavior unbecoming a Chief Justice. Because today, I wrote that I am constrained to deduce that CJ Sharma may lack not only the ethics but also the legal competence to ever return to the bench....

Prince Albert's fiancee, Monaco