Prince Albert was furious about his ex Nicole Costes Paris Match interview
Back in September, Nicole Coste gave a fascinating interview to Paris Match. Coste is the ex-lover/ex-girlfriend of Prince Albert of Monaco, and Coste is mother to their son Alexandre. Alexandre turned 18 years old this year, and he has a room in the Prince’s Palace in Monte Carlo, although I believe he splits his time between his parents. Coste was very nice about Albert in the interview, praising him for accepting Alexandre (two years after he was born, but whatever). She praised Albert for trying to be a hands-on father, and even noted that the extended Grimaldi clan has also warmly embraced Alexandre as well.
Coste saved her ire for Princess Charlene, saying in part: “As for Charlene… during the engagement period, I experienced things that alerted and shocked me. For example, she changed my son’s room, taking advantage of his father’s absence to move him to the employee wing. As a mother, I cannot find words to describe these actions.” Charlene moved Alexandre to the servants’ quarters while Albert was out of town. It was an interesting thing to include in an interview, and now Albert wants us to know that he’s completely furious about… Coste saying that to Paris Match.
Prince Albert of Monaco has revealed he was ‘furious’ about the mother of his love child giving a rare interview to press about his parenting. Nicole Coste, 49, an Air France air hostess turned fashion designer, gave birth to Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste in August 2003, two years before Albert, then heir to the Monegasque throne, started dating Princess Charlene.
Nicole has raised Alexandre and his older half-brothers in Geneva, London and New York, and chosen to stay largely out of the spotlight. However she is now firmly back in the public eye after she and Alexandre attended Monaco’s glittering Rose Ball alongside Albert and other members of the royal family, and marked the teenager’s 18th birthday with a lavish bash thrown by his royal father. She gave a rare interview in September in which she spoke about the royal’s parenting and involvement in their teenage son’s life, before hinting at tension with Princess Charlene.
However Prince Albert has been revealed how enraged he was by the comments in an interview with Point du Vue, saying: ‘She had just informed me that she was going to release something, I thought it would be just a birthday photo. It was inappropriate, I was furious to find that out.’
I mean… I assumed Albert would be furious behind-the-scenes, but I didn’t expect him to admit that in print months after the interview. I kind of buy that Coste did it behind his back too, that her interview wasn’t part of some larger palace-driven narrative to make Charlene look like an a–hole. This was Nicole Coste going off on her own to make Charlene look like an a–hole. Which is pretty easy to do, as it turns out! Imagine moving your fiance’s mixed race love child in the servants’ quarters when your fiance is out of town. I hope he was also “furious” that Charlene did that in the first place.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, cover courtesy of Paris Match.
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