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Finally a baby!
But whether she will be able to cope with the role of a provincial mother through her own role as a mother in the future will show the near future.
With a nicer message, Prince Albert and Princess Charlène of Monaco would hardly have been able to please their almost 30, 000 subjects and their millions of fans around the world, but it is true that new blood is expected in the Grimaldi Palace.
In two dry sentences, the court officially confirmed Charlene's pregnancy and named the end of the year as the date for the birth of Her High Prince's Highness. For many, the news came as a surprise, because, as you know, in the past days, weeks and months more was speculated about the end of the princely marriage, than about a baby later this year. You can see that Albert and Charlène can be silent and discreet, because no one has heard the "plumps" that fell from the heart of the Princess, when she herself - probably already in March - and realized that it finally worked ... Whether Charlène now expects a boy or a girl was not betrayed.
For the succession it does not matter. According to the old custom, which has long since been overturned in other monarchies in Europe, a boy comes first, even if a girl was born before him. But maybe Charlène and Albert will leave this one baby too, then the problem will not even begin.
By the way, the Monegas, as you can hear, is now more concerned with the question of whether - after this happy news - happiness finally finds its way back into the Grimaldi Palace, which was visibly flaking after the death of Princess Gracia (1982). Charlene's status and self-confidence strengthens the baby message in any case, but whether she will be able to cope with the role of a provincial mother through her own role as a mother, that will show the near future.
