Charlene Wittstock not a runaway bride, Monaco palace says
Monaco's Prince Albert II and fiancee Charlene Wittstock arrive for Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011, in London.
/ AP(CBS) Just days before Monaco's royal wedding, the principality's palace is denying rumors that princess-to-be Charlene Wittstock is getting cold feet.
The website of the French magazine L'Express reports that Prince Albert II's fiancee bought a one-way ticket to her home country of South Africa after learning that her future husband "was not as exemplary as she imagined."
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According to the report, she was stopped at a French airport by officials, who were acting on a request from the palace, before she could depart.
But the allegations simply aren't true, says Christiane Stahl, a chief advisor to Prince Albert at the Monaco Palace.
"Please believe me, none of this is true, and we think it comes from utter jealousy," Stahl told People magazine on Tuesday. "Charlene never left to go to the airport, nothing like that ever happened. She was never upset and never wanted to stop the wedding."
"The Prince's Palace firmly denies the allegations made in the press this morning on the web site Express.fr," the palace said in an official statement, obtained by the magazine. "These rumors spread a few days before the wedding ceremonies of H.S.H Prince Albert and Miss Charlene Wittstock have only one purpose to seriously damage the Sovereign's image and by consequence that of Miss Wittstock and to cause serious prejudice to a happy event."
Albert and Wittstock's three days of wedding festivities begin on Thursday with a concert by The Eagles, and continue with two wedding ceremonies, a dinner and a gala ball.
The marriage will put an end the Monaco ruler's longtime bachelorhood. He publicly acknowledged in 2005 having an illegitimate son with a former flight attendant from Togo. In 2006, he also admitted to fathering a daughter, born in 1992, out of wedlock.
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- Not sure why his having out of wedlock children makes him scum. Our celebrities, politicians and athletes do it all the time, yet they're still considered desirable. Prince Albert wasn't married at the time of this "fathering" and wasn't committed so what's the big deal? No, I'm not a chauvinist male pig...just an enlightened 66 year old grandmother.
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- Golly, he sounds like a real catch!
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- She should be running from this wedding. Albert will not be faithful. He has two out of wedlock children that he does not take care of. He is not a man of good character and she should run as fast as she can. He is gonna have a mistress so fast after this wedding. He will not be faithful to her. Come on !!!! Wise up !! This marriage is NOT a happy event. IF Charlene had two babies out of wedlock, she would not have even been considered marriage material to this family. Why isn't Albert held to the same standard??? Because he's a creep !!!! Ewwwww !!!!
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