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Longtime bachelor Albert gets engaged
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June 23, 2010, Wednesday
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PRINCE Albert of Monaco is engaged to South African former swimmer Charlene Wittstock, the royal palace said yesterday.
The palace issued a statement announcing the engagement of "His Serene Highness" and Wittstock, who was a school teacher before moving to the principality.
The palace did not indicate a wedding date, but the statement ends months of speculation the two longtime companions would tie the knot.
Albert acceded to the throne in July 2005 following the death of his straight-laced father, Prince Rainier III, who built the sleepy Mediterranean port into a tax haven for the rich.
That same year, Albert acknowledged he had fathered a boy, Alexandre, out of wedlock by a former flight attendant. The next year, he acknowledged an American daughter, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, now a teenager, born to a California woman. Neither can assume the throne because they were born out of wedlock.
While his father's reign was defined by his marriage to American actress Grace Kelly, Albert was known for being a longtime bachelor - so much so that Parliament in 2002 changed the constitution to allow one of his sisters' sons to take the throne if he never produces an heir.
The palace issued a statement announcing the engagement of "His Serene Highness" and Wittstock, who was a school teacher before moving to the principality.
The palace did not indicate a wedding date, but the statement ends months of speculation the two longtime companions would tie the knot.
Albert acceded to the throne in July 2005 following the death of his straight-laced father, Prince Rainier III, who built the sleepy Mediterranean port into a tax haven for the rich.
That same year, Albert acknowledged he had fathered a boy, Alexandre, out of wedlock by a former flight attendant. The next year, he acknowledged an American daughter, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, now a teenager, born to a California woman. Neither can assume the throne because they were born out of wedlock.
While his father's reign was defined by his marriage to American actress Grace Kelly, Albert was known for being a longtime bachelor - so much so that Parliament in 2002 changed the constitution to allow one of his sisters' sons to take the throne if he never produces an heir.
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