But when the couple made their formal entrance as husband and wife at their reception that evening, Princess Charlene had swapped her wedding dress for a slinkier gown (also Armani) and added a glittering diamond tiara which features a “spray” of diamonds like a “wave breaking over her head”—in a nod to the Princess’s preroyal career as an Olympic swimmer.
The piece, featuring pear-shaped diamonds, was commissioned as a gift by Prince Albert II and dubbed the “Diamond Foam Tiara” by its maker. On the evening of her nuptials, Princess Charlene wore the tiara towards the back of her head, as an elegant addition to her swirling chignon. Last night, it was worn in a more 1920s style at the front of her head—a signal, perhaps, that she didn’t want this major tiara moment to be missed.
Princess Charlene originally wore the tiara swept to the back of her head for her wedding reception
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Any references made by Princess Charlene to her wedding day are always significant as she and Albert have faced near constant public scrutiny of their relationship. Reports swirled in the days leading up to the wedding that Charlene had gotten cold feet, but the rumors were denied and their big day went ahead as planned. The three-day proceedings began on June 30 with a concert by The Eagles. This was followed by a civil ceremony on July 1 in the Throne Room of the Prince’s Palace, for which Charlene wore a custom-made aquamarine Chanel suit. Then finally there was a religious ceremony on July 2, when Charlene wore an off-the-shoulder Armani Privé gown with 40,000 Swarovski crystals, and which was attended by supermodels, sports personalities, and world leaders. As photos from the wedding began to circulate, there was commentary on how visibly upset Charlene appeared (the newly titled princess was photographed with tears in her eyes)—but she brushed these rumors off, insisting all brides are emotional on their wedding day.
Lady Kitty Spencer’s necklace bore a 74.4 carat aquamarine pendant.
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The necklace, too, was designed by Dolce & Gabbana. Lady Kitty presented the Audience Award to the high jewelry division of the brand.
She completed her mid-century film star look with a sophisticated Italian chignon and a bold cat eye.
The international jury, comprised of 10 experts, chose the eight winners in categories ranging from design to the most beautiful gemstone. Messika received the award for Best Design for its Zebra Luhlaza necklace, inspired by the landscapes of Nigeria. Dior Joaillerie took the Savoir-Faire category for their Diorexquis Forêt Nacrée necklace, while the 30.75-carat pear-cut emerald from Brazil that decorates Louis Vuitton’s Apogée choker won the award for Most Beautiful Stone. Chanel Haute Joaillerie’s Sweater Prestige necklace won the prize for the best design of the year and Tiffany & Co. won two awards: the Grand Jury’s Grand Prize and the Heritage Award.
This first edition has laid the groundwork to become an unmissable event for lovers of fine jewelry in years to come.
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump are in the final stages of preparing a joint document on securing rare earths and other critical minerals and strengthening supply chains, the Asahi Newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The agreement, which the two leaders plan to sign during their meeting later on Tuesday, aims to address economic security concerns following China’s move in October to tighten export controls on rare earths, which are crucial for a wide range of products from smartphones to fighter jets, the paper said citing Japanese government officials.
In response to China’s dominance in global production, the White House had initially planned to impose a 100% additional tariff on Chinese exports. But Washington and Beijing on Sunday reached a framework for a trade deal that could pause planned U.S. tariffs and Chinese export controls on critical minerals.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are due to meet on Thursday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea to sign off on the terms.
(Reporting by Mariko Katsumura; Editing by Stephen Coates)
Dubbed the “Celebrity Cup,” the Princess of Monaco Cup golf tournament brings together 18 teams of athletes and celebrities to raise funds for the Princess Charlène of Monaco Foundation, Princess Charlène of Monaco‘s eponymous philanthropic organization. This year, as was the case in 2021 and 2023, the Cup ended with the symbolic shot from the 19th hole at the Place du Casino in Monte-Carlo and offering the opportunity to take a swing in front of one of the world’s most iconic buildings. Neither Charlène, nor Prince Albert, wanted to miss the opportunity to do so last night at the tournament’s closing party. Albert of Monaco took off his navy blue blazer with the family crest embroidered on it to perform his swing under the watchful eye of the princess.
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Charlène added a layer of difficulty, performing her swing while wearing pointed-toe Jimmy Choo high heels, coordinating with her delicate white lace Elie Saab gown. She had the look customized by opting to remove the long sleeves on the original design sent down the runway.
Princess Charlene of Monaco attends the 4th Princess of Monaco Cup on September 16, 2025 in Monaco.SC Pool – Corbis/Getty Images
With her hair tied back in a low bun with loose, wavy tendrils and displayed her discreet, sparkling earrings, Princess Charlène exemplified minimalist bridal style, serving up elegance without skimping on the romance.
The morning of the tournament, the princess visited a hospital maternity ward accompanied by the Red Cross of Monaco, while Prince Albert spent the morning playing golf at the tournament. The competition was first held in 2019, where it raised 330,000 euros for charity.
On Monday, Charlène dedicated the whole day to charitable causes. In the morning she received two checks for her foundation, and in the afternoon she attended an event for a photo book, the proceeds of which will help fundanti-drowning and animal care initiatives through her namesake charity and Monaco’s SPCA.
She said goodbye to competitive swimming years ago, but for Princess Charlene of Monaco, the pool is still part of her daily routine. It’s thanks in part to her passion and the time she devotes to her Learn To Swim foundation, which aims to teach the basics of swimming to children and adults in different parts of the world. A true mission, which the princess carries on in the name of her cousin Richard, who drowned when he was five years old.
Princess Charlene of Monaco teaches children how to swim and practice water safety at The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation-USA Official Launch at the Annenberg Community Beach House on May 12, 2016 in Santa Monica, California.
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A little-known episode in the former swimmer’s life, but one that affected her greatly, as she told Ouest-France in a recent interview: “Richard drowned in a river, very close to my uncle’s house. He was only five years old. It was devastating for our whole family. I don’t think that kind of pain ever goes away completely,” the wife of Prince AlbertII said. Hence, the belief that learning to swim “should be a fundamental right, just like learning to read.” A theme on which the princess has always insisted. “Cost should never be an obstacle to acquiring life-saving skills,” continued Charlene, who was reportedly greatly affected by the significant number of drowning deaths during this summer season: in France alone, according to data reported by the Monaco Tribune, there were 193 deaths between June and July.
Princess Charlene during her competitive swimming career in February 2006.
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And water safety is precisely the purpose of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation, which has been active since 2014 and features three programs: Learning to Swim, Water Safety, and Sports and Education. Over the years, more than one million people in 43 countries have taken part in the programs; large numbers, to break down the limitations, often including economic ones, that prevent many from accessing swimming lessons.
In Monaco, Charlene knows, “Facilities and supervision are of high quality,” while being aware that “No place is totally safe” and that “vigilance is still necessary.”
It’s a massive, unsightly hole in the ground — the site of a construction project in downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea whose previous owners ran out of money six years ago, leaving behind nothing but concrete, rebar and hard feelings.
In 2020, The Pit was purchased by Patrice Pastor, a billionaire real estate developer from the tiny European nation of Monaco, for $9 million.
Last year, he plopped down $22 million for a much prettier property: Cabin on the Rocks, the only oceanfront home ever designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Jeff Becom, president of the board of the Carmel Art Assn., stands next to the construction eyesore known as “The Pit” in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
And in mid-June, he got approval from the California Coastal Commission for his “visionary plan” to restore public access at Rocky Point, a seaside property he bought for $8 million in nearby Big Sur with views of the iconic Bixby Bridge.
Pastor has been on a buying spree in and around Carmel-by-the-Sea, dropping more than $100 million on at least 18 properties over the last decade. So much so that his presence has become a source of intrigue, and for some, downright suspicion, in this moneyed one-square-mile town of 3,200 people.
Pastor bought the Hog’s Breath Building, the site of the pub once owned by actor Clint Eastwood. He bought the L’Auberge Carmel hotel, which houses a Michelin star restaurant. He snapped up the Der Ling building, a 1924 shop, done in fairytale-style architecture next to a stone pathway leading to a hidden garden.
“When someone comes in with so much money and can use that money for influence on so many things, that’s … scary in any community,” said Dee Borsella, who owns a custom pajama shop across from The Pit. “Every person has the right to do this. But why is he picking Carmel?”
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1.A visitor walks through the central courtyard of Der Ling Lane.2.The Bingham Building on Dolores Street, reflected in a storefront window.3.The Rocky Point Restaurant, one of the latest purchases by Monaco billionaire Patrice Pastor, rests on a bluff high above the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.
Pastor is the scion of a powerful real estate family that built much of mega-rich Monaco, a dense, one-square-mile nation on the French Riviera.
He says he first came to Carmel-by-the-Sea at age 7 during a trip with his father, and that he had never seen his dad more relaxed. The memory stuck with him. He now owns multiple homes in town and visits several times a year.
“It’s not like he picked up a book one day and was like, ‘Let me find the best place to invest.’ It’s that he personally loves it here,’” said Claire Totten, a spokeswoman for Esperanza Carmel LLC, the local branch of his international real estate company.
Still, Pastor has created quite the buzz in this gracefully aging town where, according to Zillow, the typical home price is $2.2 million.
During a scuffle last summer, the city administrator took a swing at an art gallery owner who accused local officials of being xenophobic for slowing one of Pastor’s projects. And the billionaire’s local real estate portfolio burst into international headlines this year after an article by SF Gate quoted an anonymous business owner who said people were “terrified” of his intentions.
Soon afterward, Pastor showed up to a City Council meeting via Zoom and said he would “like to inform those who feel terrified by my presence” that he would be in town a few days later: “So I suggest they either take a vacation during this period or come and meet me for a relaxation class.”
Pastor — who, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, has squabbled over lucrative development contracts with associates of Monaco’s Prince Albert II — has more humble antagonists in Carmel-by-the-Sea: the City Council, the Planning Commission and the Historic Resources Board.
The city has rejected several of his design proposals, including two for The Pit.
Development — including upgrades to private homes — is notoriously slow here. The city strictly regulates architecture to maintain the so-called village character of this woodsy place. Carmel uses no street addresses (people give their homes whimsical names instead), and has no streetlights or sidewalks in residential areas.
The Mrs. Clinton Walker House is the the only oceanfront home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Eastwood, who was mayor in the 1980s, got involved in local politics after fighting with the City Council over what he said were unreasonable restrictions on the design of an office building he wanted to erect. Pastor now owns that building.
Pastor “loves that it’s a bit idiosyncratic,” Totten said. “Carmel is a little bit etched in time. The world moves on, but Carmel is still Carmel.”
Pastor’s local defenders question whether he is being discriminated against because he is too rich.
“He’s had a hard time with the city,” said Karyl Hall, co-chair of the Carmel Preservation Assn. “It’s one thing after another after another. They’ve just beaten him down incredibly.”
“There’s no question that he gets more scrutiny,” said Tim Allen, a real estate agent who has handled most of Pastor’s local purchases, including the Frank Lloyd Wright residence, also known as the Mrs. Clinton Walker House.
Completed in 1952 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the architectural jewel had been kept within the original owner’s family until Pastor bought it in February 2023. The 1,400-square-foot house, on a rocky bluff jutting into Carmel Bay, has a hexagonal living room and stone masonry walls shaped like a ship’s prow cutting through the waves.
In a 1945 letter to Wright, artist Della Walker wrote: “I am a woman living alone — I wish protection from the wind and privacy from the road and a house as enduring as the rocks but as transparent and charming as the waves and as delicate as a seashore. You are the only man who can do this — will you help me?”
The architect replied: “Dear Mrs. Walker: I liked your letter, brief and to the point.”
“There’s no question that he gets more scrutiny,” real estate agent Tim Allen says of Monaco billionaire Patrice Pastor, whose land purchases in Carmel-by-the-Sea have generated suspicion.
Allen said Pastor’s purchase includes the original furniture, because “he’s buying a piece of history” — albeit one that “needs a ton of work,” including an expensive new roof.
Last spring, Esperanza Carmel LLC, applied for a Mills Act contract for the site, a tax break for owners of historic properties who commit to restoring and preserving them. Although the City Council had approved such a contract for the home’s previous owner, some council members balked at giving the tax break — a saving of an estimated $1.5 million over 10 years — to Pastor and postponed a decision for several months.
One resident, in a letter to the City Council, wrote: “I doubt the applicant is in financial hardship … I’m not in favor of giving handouts to ultra wealthy property owners.”
Before the council approved the tax break this spring, city officials tried to persuade Pastor to give public tours of the house and to make direct payments to local schools (which are partly funded by property taxes) — requests not made of applicants for other properties. Pastor refused.
Via Zoom, Pastor told the council he would “maintain this wonderful house in perfect condition, even if only to continue to bother those jealous people who will never have access to it.”
City officials are waging another only-in-Carmel fight with Pastor over a mixed-use development and subterranean parking garage on Dolores Street that he has been trying to build for more than three years.
Plans submitted to the city in 2021 called for the demolition of a former bank annex once used as a community room. Because it was less than 50 years old, it did not qualify as a historic structure — but after it turned 50 in October 2022, the Carmel Historic Resources Board voted to add it to the city’s historic resources list.
Pastor agreed to build around the annex.
Then, another issue arose: The project would require the removal of a small concrete wall, decorated with exposed aggregate and inlaid rocks, built in 1972 by a man local historians dubbed the “father of stamped concrete.”
The City Council last fall said the wall was too important to be moved and sent Pastor’s company back to the drawing board.
Allen, the real estate agent, decried the delays as petty grievances. Pastor’s proposed developments, he said, will add apartments, parking and public restrooms — all of which are sorely needed.
Carmel-by-the-Sea relies on the tourists drawn to its cottages, courtyards and secret passageways.
Carmel-by-the-Sea strictly regulates development to maintain its village character. The city uses no street addresses. Instead, people give their homes whimsical names.
“He doesn’t just buy to terrorize people,” Allen said. “He buys because it’s a good investment.”
Mayor Dave Potter said it is tough for anybody to build here and that Pastor is being treated fairly.
“We pride ourselves on our uniqueness,” he said. “You don’t get to just come in and build whatever you want. We don’t care if you’re a movie star or a mega-millionaire. You have to play by the same rules everybody else does.”
Hall and Neal Kruse, co-chairs of the grassroots Carmel Preservation Assn., are adamant, if surprising, supporters of Pastor.
They believe modern architecture — which they describe as ‘Anywhere, USA’ buildings with sterile facades and box-like structures — poses an existential threat to Carmel-by-the-Sea, which depends on tourists drawn to its cottages, courtyards and secret passageways.
Hall, a retired research psychologist, said she talks regularly with Pastor, whom she described as “so nice, so charming and so heartfelt,” and noted that he has several modern-architecture projects in the works overseas.
“He said, ‘Karyl, you’d hate them,’” she said, laughing.
Hall and Kruse started the preservation association in response to the first proposal for The Pit, a contemporary design approved by the Planning Commission for the previous owners. They called that planned edifice “the ice box.”
Hall said they were heartened by Pastor, who proposed more traditional buildings for The Pit.
Longtime residents “remember Carmel, and we remember the sacredness of it and why people come here,” said Kruse, an architectural designer. “We’re the ones that are largely concerned about the loss of character. But Patrice played a central role in reassuring the residents that he would help that not happen.”
Karyl Hall, left, and Neal Kruse started the Carmel Preservation Assn. Longtime residents “remember Carmel, and we remember the sacredness of it and why people come here,” Kruse says.
Over more than two years, the Planning Commission rejected two Esperanza Carmel designs for The Pit before approving a third last August for a mixed-use project with apartments, stores and an underground parking garage. Construction has not yet begun.
The 91-year home of the Carmel Art Assn. — of which surrealist painter Salvador Dali was a member — is next door to The Pit. The demolition of two buildings there, which started in 2017, caused the art gallery to shift so much that it damaged its new roof, which started “leaking all over the place,” said Jeff Becom, president of the art association’s board.
“It’s on a sand dune. You dig a big hole and you vibrate it for several weeks, it starts to slip,” Becom said. “It’s an important place, and we didn’t want it to fall into The Pit.”
With Pastor’s plans, “I have much more hope than I’ve had for some time,” he said.
Across the street, Borsella, owner of the sleepwear shop Ruffle Me to Sleep, is more dubious. She keeps prints of the architectural designs tucked under colorful tissue paper because customers ask her about The Pit every day.
Dee Borsella, owner of Ruffle Me to Sleep, says Patrice Pastor seems to be on a charm offensive “to ease the collective opinion that somebody’s invading our property, our town.”
Borsella, who used to work in one of the now-demolished buildings, thinks Pastor’s planned complex is too big. She doesn’t like its mezzanine. And she does not think the city should compromise its building standards just because people are sick of looking at a hole in the ground.
Pastor, she said, seems to be on a charm offensive “to ease the collective opinion that somebody’s invading our property, our town.” A few weeks ago, he stopped in her shop to introduce himself.
“I’m a bit of a lion,” she said. “I knew he was kind of trying to come over and pet me. I felt like he was trying to win me over.”
In 2021, Pastor bought another coastal gem in Big Sur, about 10 miles south of Carmel-by-the-Sea: a 2.5-acre cliffside parcel off Highway 1 occupied by the closed Rocky Point Restaurant.
Pastor inherited a slew of issues with the land, including investigations by the California Coastal Commission into unpermitted development by the previous owners and the use of locked gates and “No Trespassing” signs to block access to public land.
The Coastal Commission struck a deal with Pastor to clear the violations and potential fines if he restores the poison oak-covered bluffs and trails and removes the gates. Pastor also agreed to add public bathrooms, parking and electric vehicle chargers.
The deal is limited to clearing the violations — not the redevelopment or reopening of the restaurant.
Jeff Davisson takes in the view from a bluff on Rocky Point in Big Sur.
On a recent blue-sky Monday, Jay Davisson, chief executive of a Carmel-by-the-Sea luxury home-building firm, led family members visiting from Detroit and Tampa, Fla., to a bluff top on the property where they could see the Bixby Bridge.
Davisson, who recently moved to Carmel from Atlanta, said he considered buying Rocky Point, but it was “a little too expensive.” He loves Pastor’s plans to restore access — and has been closely following the news and scuttlebutt about his other purchases.
In such a small town, he said, “everybody talks. But I like the fact that it’s growing.”
Liberty Media Corp., owner of the Formula 1 racing business, is seeking additional funds from the principality of Monaco as part of advanced talks for a new contract to extend the historic car race beyond 2025.
Monaco pays about $20 million a year to host the event, the lowest total on the 24-race calendar, and representatives of Liberty Media are seeking an increase, according to people familiar with the discussions. The parties agreed to the current three-year deal in September 2022. This year, the action begins on May 24.
Like all major tourist attractions, the Monaco Grand Prix delivers a big economic boost to the region, filling hotel rooms with spenders big and small. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, two other race hosts, fork over more than $50 million a year, according to some estimates. The fees provide Formula 1 with funds it uses to pay out prize money at the end of each season.
A spokesperson for Formula 1 declined to comment on the current talks, but said the company is not considering pulling out of Monaco. The Automobile Club de Monaco, which organizes the race, didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Under Chief Executive Officer Greg Maffei, Liberty Media has grown annual Formula 1 revenue by more than 50% since 2019 to $3.22 billion last year. The company has been focused on expanding Formula 1 to countries beyond Europe, where the sport originated. The US now hosts three races — in Miami, Austin, and Las Vegas — and there have been persistent rumors of a race coming to another US city.
In 2022, New York City Mayor Eric Adams offered Randall’s Island as a potential venue, but Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali disagreed about the viability of that location, a small island of ballfields that would be difficult to access for the 300,000-plus fans anticipated at such an event.
The Prime Minister of Thailand recently met with F1 officials to discuss a race in Bangkok.
The glamorous Monaco Grand Prix, held in the sunshine-drenched streets of Monte Carlo, is considered a bucket-list event in motorsports. Monaco organizers have been unwilling to change their business model all that much because they are confident that the history and prestige of their nearly 100-year-old circuit trumps financial considerations, one person said. Many of the drivers live in Monaco.
But Formula 1 fans and prominent racers including Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton have criticized the two-mile track as oppressively dull, since the size of the modern race cars prohibits them from the daring passes and three-abreast racing that more modern circuits allow.
“Thank God that’s over, that was the most boring race I’ve ever participated in,” seven-time world champion Hamilton said after he finished third there in 2022.
The principality has been forced to change in the past. Two years ago, it gave up the right to produce its own television coverage of the race in exchange for a new contract.
“Monaco epitomizes what F1 is,” said Vincenzo Landino, an F1 analyst and consultant who publishes the Qualifier, a newsletter about the sport. “You get rid of that, now you have a brand crisis, in my opinion.”
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The lights dimmed in the Toyota Center as the crowd noise began to calm. Just a moment before fans screamed as flames and fireworks ran along the side of the stadium, Bad Bunny disappeared from the stage and a mist began to float through the building. On the large screens above the audience video of a man riding a horse alone in the desert played, his face covered in a ski mask with bug eyes. As the video played, the masked horseman moved toward a black ominous hole floating in front of him. The crowd cheered in anticipation with each trotting step of the animal, the sound of its hooves clicking echoing through the stadium. As the rider crossed the brink of darkness on the screens above, below he and the horse appeared on the side of the stage on the stadium floor. Chants of “Benito” filled the room as Bad Bunny dismounted the horse and walked over to greet members of the audience. Fans screamed as the Most Wanted Tour continued to rock the Toyota Center.
Dallas fans of Bad Bunny may have been disappointed with the rescheduling of the Puerto Rican rapper’s recent tour due to the NBA playoffs. The show has already been rescheduled and luckily it didn’t affect the rest of the tour, including the two nights the King of Latin Trap would be gracing the Toyota Center stage here in Houston. This show and latest album are supposed to be a return to the superstar’s roots and the first show did not disappoint. Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio is a showman and his only challenge in Houston right now is creating a second night that would top the first. Whether running through hits from the new album like “Monaco” or older tracks like “25/8” the MC puts his all into the show.
The MC brought everything including his own orchestra
Photo by Violeta Alvarez
When audience members entered the stadium, they were given lanyards with a cowboy-boot-shaped pendant to wear around their neck. It meshed with the outlaw/cowboy/western theme that so many fans came dressed in. The boots, however, weren’t just quick fan give-aways but also doubled as a part of the show with each one having a light that was activated by Bad Bunny’s team. As the singer performed, waves of light would pulsate around the stadium along with the music and his lyrics. The floor was split between two stages that Bad Bunny traversed throughout the night giving the entire hall the opportunity to get a close glimpse of the MC. At some points both stages were filled with dancers while at other points one stage would house a full orchestra. The middle of the show had Ocasio on a long-elevated stage between the two halves rotating toward the sides of the Toyota Center.
Bad Bunny continues to be a powerhouse in the music industry with his latest tour putting up record setting numbers early on. Billboard Boxscore has it crowned as the top tour in March already earning $64.6 million over 13 shows. This puts him ahead of other heavy weights like Madonna, Zach Bryan, Nicki Minaj and the Eagles. It’s a notable accomplishment given that he is just in the middle of his 48-date tour covering 31 cities throughout North America and his home in Puerto Rico.
The Most Wanted Tour supports the superstar’s fifth solo studio album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Manana, with Bad Bunny releasing a promotional poster saying, “Only Trap” and “If you’re not a real fan, don’t come.” His latest album is a return to the charts and a reclamation of his number one spot after taking a social media break, headlining Coachella, and releasing a collaboration album Un X 100to with Grupo Frontera. His latest offering is 22 tracks where the MC has described himself experimenting with Spanish and English music from the seventies. The results are another critically acclaimed offering earning him his third number one on the billboard charts.
That success is evident in the response displayed by the fans Tuesday night.
“He just knows how to create an atmosphere that you can immerse yourself in,” said Alec Hughes of the first night’s show. “The energy here tonight is contagious. You can’t help but dance. Every second of the show was incredible and I’m going to cherish this forever.”
For fans that missed Tuesday night there is still a chance to see Bad Bunny before he leaves Houston. The second night of the show will be held Wednesday evening.
Groove is in the heart, and in the case of Princess Charlene of Monaco, in the jumpsuit as well.
The Monegasque monarch went all in on embracing the disco theme for this year’s Rose Ball (or, as its known in Monaco’s official language of French, Bal de la Rose), which featured a headlining performance from musical icon Gloria Gaynor.
Charlene, 46, donned a long-sleeved, wide-legged Elie Saab jumpsuit festooned with golden sequins for the event on Sunday, accessorizing with dramatic drop earrings for even more sparkle. The annual bash, chaired by Princess Caroline, was held this year at Salle des Étoiles at Sporting Monte-Carlo, and is a fundraiser for the Princess Grace Foundation, which helps young performers get their start. The American-born Princess Grace herself founded the charity event in 1954. True to its name, the Rose Ball’s decor always features plenty of roses, the deceased royal’s favorite flower.
According to an official statement, shoe design legend Christian Louboutin was given free reign over the event’s artistic direction, swapping his usual focus on soles for soul and transforming the venue into a disco wonderland for the 800 or so invited guests. Drag queens Shangela and Chad Michaels also attended in outfits paying tribute to disco legends Cher and Donna Summer, adding to the festivities.
Prince Albert II of Monaco and Princess Charlene of Monaco attend the Rose Ball 2024.Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Getty Images
For her first visit to the event in a decade, Princess Charlene took in Gaynor’s performance of her classic hit songs “I Will Survive” and “Never Can Say Goodbye.” Princess Charlene’s husband, Prince Albert, was at her side at the groovy party, though his ensemble was significantly less shimmery than Charlene’s: He paired a classic black tuxedo with a red bow tie.
According to a royal fashion fan account, Charlene’s attention-grabbing human disco ball look was originally designed with a coordinating cape, also covered in sequins, which the royal chose to leave off her ensemble for the event over the weekend.
Here’s a look at the life of His Serene Highness, Prince Albert II. He was formally invested as Monaco’s ruler on July 12, 2005, following the death of his father, Prince Rainier.
Birth date: March 14, 1958
Birth place: Monte Carlo, Monaco
Birth name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi, His Serene Highness, the Hereditary Prince of Monaco, Marquis of Baux
Father: Prince Rainier III
Mother: Princess Grace, formerly the actress Grace Kelly
Children: with Charlene Wittstock: Princess Gabriella Therese Marie and Prince Jacques Honore Rainier; with Nicole Coste: Eric Alexandre Stephane; with Tamara Rotolo: Jazmin Grace Rotolo.
Education: Amherst College, BA, 1981
Military service: French Navy
He is interested in environmental issues, alternative energy and hybrid vehicles.
An avid athlete, he has competed in five Winter Olympics (1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002) in the sport of bobsledding but has not won any medals.
He has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 1985.
His two oldest children are not in line for the throne because they were born out of wedlock.
March 31, 2005 – Monaco’s Crown Council transfers the regency of the tiny kingdom to Prince Albert, the heir to the throne, saying that Prince Rainier can no longer carry out his duties as monarch.
April 6, 2005 – Prince Rainier III dies of organ failure and Prince Albert becomes Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco.
July 6, 2005 – Publicly acknowledges paternity of his son, Alexandre, born to Nicole Coste, a flight attendant from Togo.
July 12, 2005 – Part one of the formal investiture as Monaco’s ruler is Mass at St. Nicholas Cathedral, marking the end of the mourning period for Prince Rainier.
November 17, 2005 – Part two of the formal investiture is the enthronement ceremony at St. Nicholas Cathedral.
April 16, 2006 – Travels to the North Pole by dogsled to highlight global warming.
June 1, 2006 – Acknowledges paternity of his daughter, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, born to an American former waitress, Tamara Rotolo.
March 2, 2007 – Presides over the opening ceremony in Paris of International Polar Year, a research program with a focus on the Polar Regions involving 50,000 scientists from 63 countries.
January 28, 2008 – Is named as one of the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) “Champions of the Earth.”
April 22 2008 – Receives the UNEP award which recognizes individuals who show extraordinary leadership on environmental issues.
January 5-14, 2009 – Completes an expedition to the South Pole evaluating climate impact on Antarctica along the way. He is the only head of state to have visited both poles.
June 23, 2010 – The palace announces Prince Albert’s engagement to Charlene Wittstock, 32, a former Olympic swimmer and school teacher from South Africa.
July 1, 2011 – Prince Albert marries Charlene Wittstock in a civil wedding ceremony in the throne room of the Palace of Monaco.
July 2, 2011 – A second wedding, a religious ceremony including Mass, is held in the main courtyard of the Palace of Monaco. The ceremony is broadcast to the 3,500 invited guests who could not fit inside the palace.
October 2013 – Loans pieces of his private collection of Olympic torches for the Russian exhibition of Olympic torches.
December 14, 2015 – Prince Albert is presented with the 2015 Global Advocate Award by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for his work on climate change research and environmental conservation efforts.
October 2016 – Buys his mother’s childhood home in Philadelphia, with the idea of turning it into a museum or offices for foundation work.
February 29, 2024 – A Bloomberg Businessweek investigation alleges that Prince Albert repeatedly awarded his nephews, Andrea and Pierre Casiraghi, state contracts worth millions over the past 15 years. The prince and his nephews denied wrongdoing in a statement to Businessweek.
Monaco is a sovereign principality, meaning it is ruled by a prince.
It is the second smallest country in the world, after the Vatican. At 2.02 sq km (77 sq miles), Monaco is about half the size of New York’s Central Park.
It sits on the French Riviera and is bordered on three sides by France. It is a popular tourist destination, famous for its casino and luxury hotels.
Monaco is also the capital of the principality. The official language is French. The other major languages spoken are English and Italian.
Monegasque, a mixture of the French Provencal and Italian Ligurian dialects, is also spoken there.
Charlotte Casiraghi and Dimitri Rassam, part of the royal family of Monaco, are in the center of widespread speculation that they plan to divorce. European media outlets this week claimed that Casiraghi, the granddaughter of Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco, and the only child of Princess Caroline, and Rassam were set to split, but the couple has not yet officially commented.
According to French magazine Voici, it was Casiraghi who initiated the alleged split from Rassam, a producer in the film industry. According to the outlet, Rassam’s busy work life and the extensive travel it demands brought the relationship to a breaking point.
Casiraghi, 37, is an equestrian, model, and brand ambassador for Chanel. She and Rassam, 42, wed in two lavish ceremonies in 2019. They began dating in 2016, and got engaged in 2018. That same year, they welcomed their son, Balthazar, who is now 5 years old. Casiraghi has another son, 10-year-old Raphael, from a previous relationship.
Casiraghi never met her grandmother, Princess Grace, as the iconic Hollywood star-turned-Monagesque royalty died in a car accident four years before Casiraghi was born. However, the contemporary royal often invokes her glamorous late grandmother, including on her wedding day, when she wore a Cartier necklace that had been a gift to Kelly on her 1956 wedding day, and pulled details from some of Kelly’s most famous ensembles to incorporate into her own wedding day look.
Monaco’s monarchs, Prince Albert and Princess Charlene, are Casiraghi’s aunt and uncle. Casiraghi is eleventh in the royal family’s line of succession.
Representatives for Charlotte Casiraghi and the Palaice Princier did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
What’s even better than birthday cake? Seven tiers of birthday cake, of course.
Princess Charlene of Monaco rang in her 46th birthday Wednesday with just one such very large, very lucky confection. Alongside husband Prince Albert and their 9-year-old twins, Princess Gabriella and Prince Jacques, Charlene visited a bakery in Monaco’s historic Condamine Market, which has been open since 1880. The cake was decorated with white frosting and red ribbons, with some tiers featuring butterfly adornments and gold gilt accents, as well as sprays of fresh flowers.
The cake wasn’t the only festive touch for Charlene’s special day. She and daughter Gabriella had a little mother-daughter twinning moment for the outing, wearing similar but not identical outfits. Gabriella wore a camel-colored overcoat atop a heathered gray turtleneck sweater, while Charlene had opted for a long quilted Max Mara puffer vest with a hood in the same tan hue, with a gray sweater and loosely wound gray scarf underneath to keep warm.
Monaco’s royal couple have made headlines over the past several years over speculation around the state of their marriage. In September 2023, Albert issued a statement asking for an end to what he characterized as the “lies” around his relationship.
“She supports me in leading the Principality, but we’re not attached to each other 24 hours a day,” he said of Princess Charlene. “We’re a working couple and sometimes that only allows us to see each other at the end of a long day full of appointments.”
Charlene, too, has denied rumors of a divorce, and told outlets around the same time that she would no longer comment on the state of her marriage, in hopes that she would no longer be asked.
The royal couple welcomed some 680 children to their palace in December for the traditional Christmas party, complete with a signature hot chocolate recipe, an event which is meant to foster a relationship between the royal family of Monaco and the public, a tradition started in the early 1960s when Princess Grace was in residence. The couple’s twins were not in attendance at the party this year due to illness.
Elves and acrobats and Santa Claus, oh my! Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco hosted their annual children’s Christmas party at the Prince’s Palace Tuesday, continuing a tradition started by Princess Grace in the early 1960s.
Palace volunteers dressed as elves greeted the invited children, who were treated to the palace’s special blend of hot chocolate and a personal gift delivered directly from Santa Claus and members of the royal family as part of the festivities.
Albert’s parents, Princess Grace and Prince Rainier, began hosting the event so children could meet the princess and have cherished memories of one-on-one time with their royal family. In the years since, the event has expanded, this year including 680 children.
Two children, however, were notably missing from the festivities: Albert and Charlene’s 9-year-old twins, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, who were reportedly ill.
Gift requests are collected from each invited child ahead of time so that the palace can hand deliver an item from their wish list, straight from Saint Nick himself, on the festive day. This year, People reported, Playmobil Novelmore and Spiderman racing sets were in high demand from the gathered kids.
The palace’s hot chocolate, too, is as legendary and over-the-top as the rest of the celebration. The milk for the concoction comes from the palace’s personal herd of dairy cows, and the 70% dark chocolate blend from the Dominican Republic completes the extra-thick recipe.
Rumors surrounding Albert and Charlene’s relationship have plagued the royal couple in recent years, prompting Albert in September to ask for an end to the “lies.”
“She supports me in leading the Principality, but we’re not attached to each other 24 hours a day,” he said of his wife. “We’re a working couple and sometimes that only allows us to see each other at the end of a long day full of appointments.”
For the first time, Alexandre Grimaldi is opening up about what it was really like to have Monaco’s Prince Albert as a father. In a cover story for the December issue of Tatler, the 20-year-old talked about his plans for the future, his relationship with his father and siblings, and the one piece of advice that he got from his father’s friend Naomi Campbell. The supermodel was romantically linked to the prince in the mid-1990s and later attended his 2011 wedding to Princess Charlene.
“It was great to meet her. She was really open and kind of embraced me as like… a nephew,” Alexandre said of their meeting at Campbell’s fashion show in September. “She gave me a bit of advice: just to be careful with anyone looking after me, especially since I’m coming out to the public.”
In 2006, Albert publicly revealed that he had a young son from a former relationship, and in the years that have followed, Alexandre became an occasional presence among the principality’s royal family. Last month, he celebrated his 20th birthday, and along with his mother, Nicole Coste, he sat for his very first interview with the French magazine Point de Vue.
During the previous conversation, Alexandre addressed some of the hurtful comments that were made because his parents were not married when he was born, but in his Tatler interview, his first solo sit-down with the press, he shared a bit of his personality, including his enthusiasm for fashion, rapper Kendrick Lamar, and soccer, which he discusses in a group chat that includes Coste’s two other sons and Albert’s oldest daughter Jazmin Grimaldi.
“We are all very close…We actually have a text message group. We’re having arguments about who’s better: Erling Haaland or Mbappé. My sister’s more Team Mbappé, but it’s more Haaland on the boys’ side. I like both,” he said, adding that his younger siblings, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella aren’t in the group yet. “The little ones are too young to have a phone, so it’ll take them a few years.”
He also told the magazine about the strength of his relationship with his father. “With my dad it’s good, we’re starting to see each other a lot more. During the holiday season, we are spending a lot of time together. It’s a very good relationship,” he said. “[I aspire to] work in a relationship with my dad and become this – let’s say – global ambassador for Monaco, and to bring business opportunities back to Monaco, which is what I’ve talked about with him.”
Though Alexandre Grimaldi, the second-born child of Monaco’s Prince Albert, isn’t in line for the throne of the small principality where his father is head of state, he has spent plenty of time in the country. Next week, the university student will turn 20, and to mark the occasion, he sat for an interview with the French magazine Point de Vue. The conversations addressed his feelings about some negative public reactions to his role in the Monegasque royal family, specifically in response to commenters online who refer to him by the surname of his mother, Nicole Coste.
“My father’s name is Grimaldi. It makes sense that I bear his name. I would have been called Dochomel if my father had been Mr. Dochomel!” Alexandre said, per People. “Besides, I never called myself Coste or Coste-Grimaldi. On no ID, at school or on my diplomas. Those who call me that have a malicious attitude.”
He said that he dislikes being called “illegitimate,” and added that it was Albert’s own choice to acknowledge publicly that he had fathered a child though he was not married. “Nor am I ‘illegitimate’ since when I was born, neither of my parents was in another marriage, and they did not commit adultery,” he said. “Using that word is insulting! I hope no one believes the lies conveyed on the internet. One bears the name of one’s father when one has been recognized since birth. I had voluntary recognition from my father when I was a baby. Not from a judge or the press who have forced him to.”
In 2005, Albert announced that he had a son with Coste, a French-Togolese woman who Albert met when she was working as a flight attendant. The next year, it became public knowledge that Albert had an older daughter from a previous relationship, Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, who was born in 1992. Albert also shares eight-year-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella with his wife, Princess Charlene, who he married in 2011.
Both Alexandre and Jazmin have spent time in Monaco, and in January 2022, Jazmin shared a photograph of all four siblings together on her Instagram account. In 2021, Albert told People that Charlene’s relationship with his older children had “evolved” over the years, adding “She is more acceptant now.”
The travel website FloridaPanhandle.com analyzed costs in 100 popular vacation spots, looking into average prices for accommodations, transportation, food and attractions.
Here are 10 destinations that certainly call for big budgets.
According to the analysis, the most expensive vacation destinations, excluding flight costs, are:
Gustavia, St. Barts
Gstaad, Switzerland
Aspen, Colorado
Park City, Utah
Maui, Hawaii
London, England
Cocoa Island, Maldives
Maun, Botswana
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Monte Carlo, Monaco
The 10 most expensive vacation destinations around the globe.
Source: CNBC
The list was dominated by islands and ritzy ski towns, though the draw of eco-tourism safaris in Botswana and Europe’s financial capital, London, rounded out the ranking.
The Caribbean island of St. Barts is the most expensive vacation destination in the world, largely because of its high accommodation costs, which average $1,770 per night, according to the analysis.
Average hotel rates in Switzerland’s Gstaad (No. 2) are $1,360, according to the research. The town in the Swiss Alps also has the highest average food costs on the list, at $177 per day.
Accommodations at the third priciest spot — Aspen, Colorado — average $1,385 for one person, but a family of four can expect to pay $2,274, according to the analysis.
A street in downtown Aspen, Colorado.
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To find those prices, FloridaPanhandle.com researched average rates for four- and five-star hotels for stays during Christmas (Dec. 21-27) and the spring (May 19-25), but did not include taxes.
To estimate the price of activities, FloridaPanhandle.com calculated the average cost for each location’s three most-reviewed attractions on TripAdvisor.
The ski town of Park City, Utah, averaged $333 for daily attractions — the highest on the list.
Attractions in Maun, Botswana, Africa’s lone destination on the list, averaged more than $100 per day for activities like a one-day visit to the Okavango Delta.
Despite having higher overall average costs, St. Barts and the Maldives’ attractions were valued at $0. Vacationers may have to pay top dollar for hotels in those locations, but their beaches are free.
Monaco, Monte Carlo.
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Monte Carlo had one of the lowest average rates for attractions on the list, a surprising result for a vibrant gambling hot spot.
While “Monte Carlo is known for its casinos, it is also not the most popular thing to do in town,” said a representative from FloridaPanhandle.com.
According to the company, the three most popular attractions in Monte Carlo are the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, an outdoor area called Casino Square, and the Casino of Monte Carlo, which has an entrance fee of 18 euros ($20).
Gambling losses, however, are not included in Monte Carlo’s average attraction costs.
NEW YORK — Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture.
For more than a half-century, she was on the air, placing in front of her audience world figures, big shots and celebrities whose names and faces might have changed from year to year. But hers never did.
She first found her way to prominence in a visually oriented business where, typically, women were adornments or otherwise secondary.
And there she stayed, stayed so long and reliably she came to serve as a trusted reference point: What Barbara thought, what she said and, especially, what she asked the people she interviewed.
“I do think about death,” she told The Associated Press in 2008 as she was closing out her eighth decade. But if death got the last word, Walters had the nation’s ear in the meantime, she made clear, with amusement, as she recalled the zany Broadway hit “Spamalot,” based on a Monty Python film.
“You know the scene where they’re collecting dead bodies during a plague, and there’s a guy they keep throwing in the heap, and he keeps saying, ‘I’m not dead yet’? Then they bash him on the head, and he gets up again and says, ‘I’m not dead yet!’
“He’s my hero,” Walters said with a smile.
Walters, whose death at age 93 was announced Friday, was a heroic presence on the TV screen, leading the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a career remarkable for its duration and variety.
Late in her career, she gave infotainment a new twist with “The View,” a live ABC weekday kaffee klatsch with an all-female panel for whom any topic was on the table and who welcomed guests ranging from world leaders to teen idols. A side venture and unexpected hit, Walters considered “The View” the “dessert” of her career.
Walters made headlines in 1976 as the first female network news anchor, with an unprecedented $1 million salary that drew gasps.
During nearly four decades at ABC, and before that at NBC, Walters’ exclusive interviews with rulers, royalty and entertainers brought her celebrity status that ranked with theirs, while placing her at the forefront of the trend in broadcast journalism that made stars of TV reporters and brought news programs into the race for higher ratings.
Her drive was legendary as she competed — not just with rival networks, but with colleagues at her own network — for each big “get” in a world jammed with more and more interviewers, including female journalists who followed the trail she blazed.
“I never expected this!” Walters said in 2004, taking measure of her success. “I always thought I’d be a writer for television. I never even thought I’d be in front of a camera.”
But she was a natural on camera, especially when plying notables with questions.
“I’m not afraid when I’m interviewing, I have no fear!” Walters told the AP in 2008.
In a voice that never lost its trace of her native Boston accent or its substitution of Ws-for-Rs, Walters lobbed blunt and sometimes giddy questions, often sugarcoated with a hushed, reverential delivery.
“Offscreen, do you like you?” she once asked actor John Wayne, while Lady Bird Johnson was asked whether she was jealous of her late husband’s reputation as a ladies’ man.
In May 2014, she taped her final episode of “The View” amid much ceremony and a gathering of scores of luminaries to end a five-decade career in television (although she continued to make occasional TV appearances). During a commercial break, a throng of TV newswomen she had paved the way for — including Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Robin Roberts and Connie Chung — posed with her for a group portrait.
“I have to remember this on the bad days,” Walters said quietly, “because this is the best.”
Her career began with no such signs of majesty.
Walters graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1943 and eventually landed for a “temporary,” behind-the-scenes assignment at “Today” in 1961.
Shortly after that, what was seen as the token woman’s slot among the staff’s eight writers opened. Walters got the job and began to make occasional on-air appearances with offbeat stories such as “A Day in the Life of a Nun” or the tribulations of a Playboy bunny. For the latter, she donned bunny ears and high heels to work at the Playboy Club.
As she appeared more frequently, she was spared the title of “‘Today’ Girl” that had been attached to her token female predecessors. But she had to pay her dues, sometimes sprinting across the “Today” set between interviews to do dog food commercials.
She had the first interview with Rose Kennedy after the assassination of her son, Robert, as well as with Princess Grace of Monaco, President Richard Nixon and many others. She traveled to India with Jacqueline Kennedy, to China with Nixon and to Iran to cover the shah’s gala party. But she faced a setback in 1971 with the arrival of a new host, Frank McGee. Although they could share the desk, he insisted she wait for him to ask three questions before she could open her mouth during joint interviews with “powerful persons.”
Although she grew into a celebrity in her own right, the celebrity world was familiar to her even as a little girl. Her father was an English-born booking agent who turned an old Boston church into a nightclub. Lou Walters opened other clubs in Miami and New York, and young Barbara spent her after-hours with regulars such as Joseph Kennedy and Howard Hughes.
Those were the good times. But her father made and lost fortunes in a dizzying cycle that taught her success was always at risk of being snatched away, and could neither be trusted nor enjoyed. She also described a “lonely, isolated childhood.”
Sensing greater freedom and opportunities awaited her outside the studio, she hit the road and produced more exclusive interviews for the program, including Nixon chief of staff H.R. Haldeman.
By 1976, she had been granted the title of “Today” co-host and was earning $700,000 a year. But when ABC signed her to a $5 million, five-year contract, she was branded the “the million-dollar baby.”
Reports failed to note her job duties would be split between the network’s entertainment division (for which she was expected to do interview specials) and ABC News, then mired in third place. Meanwhile, Harry Reasoner, her seasoned “ABC Evening News” co-anchor, was said to resent her salary and celebrity orientation.
“Harry didn’t want a partner,” Walters summed up. “Even though he was awful to me, I don’t think he disliked me.”
It wasn’t just the shaky relationship with her co-anchor that brought Walters problems.
Comedian Gilda Radner satirized her on the new “Saturday Night Live” as a rhotacistic commentator named “Baba Wawa.” And after her interview with a newly elected President Jimmy Carter in which Walters told Carter “be wise with us,” CBS correspondent Morley Safer publicly derided her as “the first female pope blessing the new cardinal.”
It was a period that seemed to mark the end of everything she’d worked for, she later recalled.
“I thought it was all over: ‘How stupid of me ever to have left NBC!’”
But salvation arrived in the form of a new boss, ABC News president Roone Arledge, who moved her out of the co-anchor slot and into special projects for ABC News. Meanwhile, she found success with her quarterly primetime interview specials. She became a frequent contributor to ABC’s newsmagazine “20/20,”and in 1984, became co-host. A perennial favorite was her review of the year’s “10 Most Fascinating People.”
By 2004, when she stepped down from “20/20,” she had logged more than 700 interviews, ranging from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Moammar Gadhafi, to Michael Jackson, Erik and Lyle Menendez and Elton John. Her two-hour talk with Monica Lewinsky in 1999, timed to the former White House intern’s memoir about her affair with President Bill Clinton, drew more than 70 million viewers and is among history’s highest-rated television interviews.
A special favorite for Walters was Katharine Hepburn, although a 1981 exchange led to one of her most ridiculed questions: “What kind of a tree are you?”
Walters would later object that the question was perfectly reasonable within the context of their conversation. Hepburn had likened herself to a tree, leading Walters to ask what kind of a tree she was (“Oak” was the response). Walters did pronounce herself guilty of being “dreadfully sentimental” at times and was famous for making her subjects cry, with Oprah Winfrey and Ringo Starr among the more famous tear shedders.
But her work also received high praise. She won a Peabody Award for her interview with Christopher Reeve shortly after the 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed. But the interview Walters singled out as her most memorable was with Bob Smithdas, a teacher and poet with a master’s degree who had been deaf and blind since childhood. In 1998, Walters profiled him and his wife, Michelle, also deaf and blind.
Walters wrote a bestselling 2008 memoir “Audition,” which caught readers by surprise with her disclosure of a “long and rocky affair” in the 1970s with married U.S. Sen. Edward Brooke, a Republican from Massachusetts who was the first Black person to win popular election to the U.S. Senate.
“I knew it was something that could have destroyed my career,” Walters said shortly after her book’s publication.
Walters’ self-disclosure reached another benchmark in May 2010 when she made an announcement on “The View” that, days later, she would undergo heart surgery. She would feature her successful surgery — and those of other notables, including Clinton and David Letterman — in a primetime special, “A Matter of Life and Death.”
Walters’ first marriage to businessman Bob Katz was annulled after a year. Her 1963 marriage to theater owner Lee Guber, with whom she adopted a daughter, ended in divorce after 13 years. Her five-year marriage to producer Merv Adelson ended in divorce in 1990.
Walters is survived by her daughter, Jacqueline Danforth.
“I hope that I will be remembered as a good and courageous journalist. I hope that some of my interviews, not created history, but were witness to history, although I know that title has been used,” she told the AP upon her retirement from “The View.” “I think that when I look at what I have done, I have a great sense of accomplishment. I don’t want to sound proud and haughty, but I think I’ve had just a wonderful career and I’m so thrilled that I have.”
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Moore, a longtime Associated Press television writer who retired in 2017, was the principal writer of this obituary. Associated Press journalists Stefanie Dazio and Alicia Rancilio contributed to this report.
After two years away from Monaco’s National Day celebrations, Princess Charlene made her return to the palace balcony on Saturday, joined by her husband Prince Albert and their 8-year-old twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella. According to People, other members of the extended Grimaldi clan, including Albert’s sisters Princess Stephanie and Princess Caroline and their children, were present for a 90-minute Te Deum mass before they drove through the streets of Monte Carlo.
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Charlene wore a long, white coat by Akris and a hat by milliner Stephen Jones. Afterward, she shared a picture of the children inside the palace on her Instagram account. For the first time, Jacques wore the traditional police uniform and cap along and Gabriella wore a red coat and black hat. (The uneven fringe from the haircut she gave herself before school started in September looks to be growing back in.) When the children went outside for the ceremony, they also donned Order of Grimaldi medals for the first time.
This weekend’s activities mark the first time that Charlene has celebrated Monaco’s annual holiday since 2019. In 2020, the festivities were canceled due to COVID-19, and in 2021, Charlene canceled her appearance due to her extended recovery from an ear, nose, and throat infection. She returned to Monaco in early November 2021 after spending at least five months grounded in her native South Africa due to her illness. When she arrived in Monaco, she was still recovering and later traveled to a clinic in Switzerland to continue her convalescence. In May 2022, she returned to her royal duties.
Later that night, the adults of the family attended a gala at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte Carlo. Charlene wore a navy gown by Terence Bray, one of her longtime favorites, and accessorized it with a sash with the colors of the Monaco flag and an Order of Grimaldi starburst. Albert’s niece Charlotte Casiraghi also attended, wearing a tweed Chanel gown.
Two weeks ago, Albert and Charlene traveled to New York City to the Princess Grace Awards Annual Gala honoring a selection of winners in theater, dance, and film. While there, Charlene became the first to wear the Grace diamond, a 1.79-carat pink diamond set into a necklace by jeweler Lorenz Bäumer and haute jewelry brand Maison Mazerea.
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To stir up even more publicity for its cruise collection—and incite jealously among its legion of fashion fans—Chanel tapped Sofia and Roman Coppola to direct a short film promoting its stopover at the Faena Hotel in Miami. (The runway show first took place on the beach in Monte Carlo back in May.) Set to the soundtrack of “This Town” by The Go-Go’s, the vintage-tinged vignettes showcase the coastal city’s greatest hits, including Ocean Drive, Art Deco architecture, sprawling beaches, and, as a finishing touch, the house’s iconic CCs scrawled on the sand. The lyrics say it all: “This town is our town / It is so glamorous / Bet you’d live here if you could / And be one of us.”
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For the past 24 hours, everyone who wasn’t in South Florida probably wishes they were…for once. From the idyllic setting overlooking the ocean to the star-studded guest list (Lily Rose-Depp, Marion Cotillard, and Lori Harvey), performances (Nile Rodgers and Chic with a cameo by Pharrell Williams for “Get Lucky”), and spread (quintessential Florida fare like stone crab claws, Cuban sliders, and key lime pie), these were, to quote Rodgers wailing on the microphone, the good times. And that’s without factoring in the clothes.
Against the backdrop of red and white-striped umbrellas and chaise loungers, the collection blended old-world French glamour and athleticism—specifically, auto racing and racquet sports—with models holding biker helmets and toting quilted leather tennis bags over their shoulders. The silhouettes ran the gamut from jumpsuits to tailored suiting and, for the finale, an elegant long-sleeve sequin dress, but the retro-meets-motorsports theme becomes most apparent in the details—think: crochet racing gloves, dresses emblazoned with starter flags, and baseball caps in Chanel’s signature tweed.
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Though originally shown in the French Riviera, the collection moves seamlessly to stateside shores. Perhaps not so coincidentally, Formula 1 was also held in Miami this year, further cementing the locale as the new Monaco. When asked why the resort destination was the ideal place for its replica cruise show the next day during a masterclass held at the Faena Forum, Bruno Pavlovsky, president of Chanel’s fashion activities and president of Chanel SAS, said, “Why Miami? Chanel loves Miami.” And really, what’s not to love?
Lori Harvey, Arden Cho, and Ella Balinska.
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See the finale looks from the Chanel Cruise 2022/2023 show in Miami, below.
Claire Stern is the Deputy Editor of ELLE.com. Previously, she served as Editor at Bergdorf Goodman. Her interests include fashion, food, travel, music, Peloton, and The Hills—not necessarily in that order. She used to have a Harriet the Spy notebook and isn’t ashamed to admit it.
