Princess and the plea
The whispering started shortly after Prince Albert II and his family arrived at the Yacht Club de Monaco the week before Christmas to christen a new police launch. The ruler of the tiny European principality, his wife Princess Charlene and their six-year-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella were casually dressed, the children in jeans and their mum sporting a beret. However, on closer inspection, it appeared that under her hat, Charlene’s head had been shaved.
People stared. Why would the glamorous princess have shaved her beautiful blonde bob? It was hardly an expected look for a royal.
The beret made it difficult to see what state her hair was in, but onlookers at the yacht club didn’t have to wait long to have their suspicions confirmed. Later that day, the family attended a festive gift-giving event for local children – and the beret was gone, allowing everyone to see that a large wedge of hair had been shaved off one side of Charlene’s head. A razor had also been taken to the back of her neck, and her remaining hair had been dyed a much darker blonde than usual.
One local who was at both the boat christening and
