By Elizabeth Sanderson And Charlotte Griffiths
Last updated at 11:19 AM on 3rd July 2011
I thought that Albert wife’s name was Catherine not Charlene, anyway Uh Oh a Second Baby with Nicole Coste?
It may have had all the superficial trappings of a fairytale royal wedding, but as Prince Albert of Monaco tied the knot with his reluctant bride yesterday, the scandals surrounding their often tense nuptials took yet another awkward turn.
Officials in the Mediterranean enclave chose the day of his star-studded wedding to former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock to announce that the Prince would have to take a paternity test for a possible third illegitimate child. A palace aide said that one of 33-year-old Princess Charlene’s first duties would therefore be to stand by her husband if there was another public scandal.
Emotional: Charlene Princess of Monaco wipes a tear as she leaves the St Devote Church after her wedding to Prince Albert II of Monaco.
(Those were NOT tears of Happiness but rather: “Please Don’t Let It Be A Baby With ANOTHER Black Woman.”)
Albert, 53, already has an illegitimate six-year-old son called Alexandre through a Togolese former air hostess called Nicole Coste, and a 19-year-old daughter called Jazmin with Tamara Rotolo, an American estate agent. Both were kept away from Albert’s marriage to avoid ‘media exposure’, an official inside Monaco’s royal palace said.
Jazmin and mother Tamara Rotolo
Albert and daughter Jazmin
Baby Mama #2:Nicole Coste and son Alex (Prince Albert s love child).
The source added: ‘The truth of the rumour is that Albert faces paternity tests following a claim by at least one former lover.’
But none of Albert’s illegitimate brood will have a claim to the throne, with the official saying: ‘Even if a third or even a fourth child is confirmed Albert will not have an official heir until Princess Charlene bears him one.’
(And that is exactly why Albert married a white woman, way to keep the wealth with the whites Albert).
The tests will go ahead in the next few days, said the source.
Happy day: Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Charlene after their wedding mass in the Main Courtyard of the Prince's Palace in Monaco
French magazine Public has attributed two new illegitimate children to Albert. One is said to be 18 months old and the son of an Italian woman who is preparing to tell all. Other magazines have suggested Ms Coste has had a second baby with Prince Albert – an idea that gained credibility last week when the 40-year-old was pictured in Monte Carlo.
Ms Coste received a multi-millionpound settlement when a DNA test showed Albert was Alexandre’s father, while Ms Rotolo has also been supported financially by him.
Lawyers for Prince Albert have said categorically that the rumour he fathered another child is false – but they made similarly fierce denials before genetic tests proved he had fathered the other two children.
The source said he hoped yesterday’s Roman Catholic ceremony in the Palace courtyard, a day after the uneasy civil service, would ‘overshadow’ the latest revelations about secret children – although that seems like wishful thinking.
My Prince: Charlene kisses her new husband, who wore the uniform of Monaco's palace guards
There was an audible sigh of relief when bride and groom said ‘I do’, ten days after Charlene was allegedly intercepted at Nice airport as she tried to flee home to South Africa. She has looked uncomfortable, even sad, in recent appearances while Albert also looked ashen-faced during yesterday’s service, despite the apparent glamour of the event.
Who is the real prince of Ruritania: Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie the Duchess of Wessex arrive for the wedding
The Ex: Naomi Campbell, who was romantically linked to Prince Albert in the nineties, arrives with boyfriend Russian property mogul Vladimir Doronin
Guests included the Earl of Wessex and his wife Sophie, former James
Bond star Roger Moore, French president Nicolas Sarkozy, supermodel Naomi Campbell and retail tycoon Sir Philip Green.
Also present were veteran fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld and Giorgio Armani, who designed the wedding dress embroidered with 40,000 Swarovski crystals, Manchester United footballer Patrick Evra and ex-tennis champion Ilie Nastase.
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 Charlene 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.