A day after their civil wedding, Prince Albert has married the former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock in a Catholic ceremony in Monaco.
That's right. The royal couple of Monaco followed their civil wedding on Friday with a Roman Catholic ceremony Saturday in front of some 300 guests gathered in the Main Courtyard of the Prince's Palace in Monaco.
Among the celebrity guests in attendance: fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Roberto Cavalli and Georgio Armani; supermodel Naomi Campbell; French President Nicolas Sarkozy; and actor Roger Moore.
Armani confirmed early this year that he would be the wedding dress designer. The gown was an off-white silk design featuring a long train with floral embroidery trimmed with stones in gold shades and crystal.
All saw Albert wink at his new bride after she had said ‘Oui’ when asked if she wanted to marry him.
Whatever the challenges of her new married life, Zimbabwe-born Charle
ne certainly comes from tough stock. Her great-great-great-grandfather John Webb went on an Atlantic expedition with Sir Ernest Shackleton – and ended up in South Africa where he discovered a diamond mine. He met his wife Mary, a lady-in-waiting to a princess, on a boat coming back from Egypt, and they settled in London.The family emigrated to Rhodesia after the Second World War, but fled to South Africa when Charlene was a baby, to escape the escalating civil war there.
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