Live secretly to live happily. It’s always been a saying Casiraghi family and especially the princesses Carolina of Monacowho, after the sudden disappearance of her husband Stefano, who died in an accident during the offshore world championship in Monte Carlo while he was at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, decided to retire in Saint-Remy-de- Provence. An unauthorized exile in which, in order to vent her pain and keep three small children away from prying eyes, 6-year-old Andrea, Charlotte of 4 and Pierre of 3. For many years, there have been very few instances of Grace Kelly’s grandchildren appearing in public in defense of the privacy that has become the trademark of the family.
32 years after that dramatic event on October 3, 1990, when his father died, Charlotte Casiraghi she is finally a full-fledged and accomplished woman, as she herself tells the American magazine City and country. In one of the rare interviews given to the press, Caroline’s second daughter delves into her relationship with her two children. 8-year-old Rafael, born as a result of her relationship with French comedian Gad Elmaleh, and 4-year-old Balthazar, who in 2019 married producer Dimitri Rassam. Different from many mothers,” she says. Like their mother, a voracious reader and tireless scholar, her children love literature: Raphael appreciates The little Princebut prefers classic comics like tintin Hi The Smurfs, and the younger brother is fond of Greek mythology, especially the stories of Zeus and Hercules. “It’s very hard to sum it up,” Charlotte explains when asked about the biggest challenges of motherhood. “I think there are difficult and amazing moments in every day. Every day you go through moments when you worry about your children or when they burn you out, and then you go through moments when you share so much with them and don’t even bet calling into question the fact that they are the most important thing in your life.”
Becoming a parent, she took a fresh look at her relationship with her mother Carolina. which, despite appearances, was not always easy. “You have more empathy and you understand more things because it’s a transfer of motherly connection….” “Of course,” she continues a little hesitantly in an interview, “when you become a mother, your mother recognizes that she is not the only mother. And it’s very liberating. Many women feel that they, too, have such power to give life, and this is not something they owe only to their mother. So, of course, think differently… Because the mother-daughter relationship is very complicated.”
And after a few seconds of reflection, he adds: “I try not to talk about my very personal relationship with my mother, and I don’t necessarily want to reveal everything that happens between us, but it is always ambivalent. I feel that even when you have kids, you still fight for your space.Clearly, something must have contributed to complicating his relationship with mother Carolina. It’s hard to tell if this is just survivor syndrome, that guilt that permeates those who go through such a dramatic event as the death of their father Stefano. the burden that Alberto’s sister, after the loss of her mother Grace, also had to bear for her young children.
Perhaps Charlotte never forgave her third marriage on January 23, 1999 to Prince Ernest August of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, and the birth of their daughter Alexandra, now 23 years old. There are so many plausible hypotheses, so many factors that must have contributed to the maternal relationship being difficult and sometimes perhaps even conflicting. But we can only expect absolute discretion from Charlotte, as her mother Caroline taught her.
Source: Elle