Here, in part, is the contrarian note I sounded last year when so many were celebrating the marriage of Prince Albert of Monaco and Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock of South Africa:
Reports are that she tried to flee three times to avoid having to go through with her three-day royal wedding…
Naturally, one wonders what could possibly have caused Charlene to flee. After all, she not only waited years for this big day, but knew all about his two illegitimate children and could not have had any illusions about his love for, or fidelity to, her…
I can’t help thinking that she could have avoided this patently loveless marriage if she really wanted. Are we to believe, for example, that her country’s Parisian embassy simply refused to give her refuge and safe passage back home … to South Africa? [Granted] Charlene’s family members have already become so vested in the perks and privileges that will redound to them by this marriage that running home would probably be tantamount to facing a firing squad…
It hardly reflects well on her that the only thing her attempts to escape reportedly accomplished was to force Albert to renegotiate the financial terms of their prenuptial agreement; i.e., to make them more lucrative for her…
No doubt part of their arrangement is that she will produce a male heir ASAP; because Albert has already ruled out any chance of the illegitimate son he had with a black woman ascending Monaco’s Monegasque throne.
If there’s a God, Charlene will turn out to be barren.
(“Monaco’s Prince Albert Captures His Runaway Bride,” The iPINIONS Journal, July 5, 2011)
After reading the above, you can probably imagine the hate mail I got from people damning me: on the one hand, for pointing out what a royal racist Prince Albert is; and on the other, for praying that his reluctant bride would be unable to bear him a more suitable heir.
I found it ironic that so many of my critics defended Albert against my charge of racism by hurling racial epithets at me. I was particularly amused by their Eurocentric view that I was “just some nigger from America who knows nothing about European royalty.” But what royally pissed them off was my not-so-subtle insinuation that Albert was forced to offer a last-minute inducement (aka a bribe) to get Charlene to the altar.
Well, now comes my inevitable vindication. Because here, in part, is what the London Daily Mail reported on Friday about this arranged marriage:
Prince Albert of Monaco’s new wife Charlene Wittstock has become ‘depressed’ at her failure to provide her husband with a legitimate heir, it was claimed today. Princess Charlene is said to have struck a ‘deal’ with the principality’s playboy ruler to bear him a child after she tried to flee before their wedding last summer.
But the 33-year-old South African is now unable to get pregnant, France’s Voici magazine reported…
Charlene was said to have bolted for Nice airport two days before they married after hearing Albert had had a third love-child during their relationship. Monaco officials were said to have coaxed her back by brokering a deal between the Prince and his reluctant bride that she provide him with a legitimate heir.
After that she would be free to leave of her own free will.
Enough said?
Except that I should clarify: I don’t really want Charlene to be barren; I just don’t want her to help that venal husband of hers get away with foisting this crude marriage of convenience upon the people of Monaco as a legitimate royal family.
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