Another sad ending for a lavish wedding?
Last month's elaborate wedding festivities of Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock (pictured above), were attended by at least one Iranian: Former Iranian Queen Farah Diba (in the video below), wife to the last Iranian King who was deposed during Iran's Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The reported $65 million wedding was in addition to other state-wide festivities, to which all 30,000+ of Monaco’s residents were invited to. Other guests to the private royal wedding included Prince Albert’s ex-girlfriend Naomi Campbell, Giorgio Armani (who designed the wedding dress), French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his new wife model Carla Bruni, as well as too many princes, princesses, kings and queens of various countries to mention individually. It is not known whether any of Prince Albert’s children or their mothers were in attendance.
But like many other lavish and royal weddings, this one was also plagued with rumors and uncertainty. There are rumors now that the bride (Charlene Wittstock) was considering becoming a runaway bride amid new paternity tests for Prince Albert (the groom already has two children out of wedlock, and is reported to have fathered two more). In fact, Daily Mail reports that the 53-year-old billionaire and his 33-year-old wife cut short their trip to South Africa so he can take a DNA test to resolve a multi-million pound paternity claim, and it has been alleged that while the newlyweds were on honeymoon, they stayed apart – with Princess Charlene in the $6,000-a-night hotel suite in the beach resort of Umhlanga Rocks and her husband ten miles away in the city of Durban. Also, French magazine VSD has claimed that Charlene has a ‘pact’ to produce a legitimate heir with her new husband before the couple can go their separate ways. Meanwhile, Christiane Stahl, a chief advisor to Prince Albert at the Monaco Palace, has categorically denied all the gossip as rumors caused by "utter jealousy!"
If the rumors are true, this could mean another lavish wedding has failed to bring true love and peace to the couple. Other footage from the royal wedding:
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