It's for sure that our little Pauline played an important role in our combat to be accepted because it was shortly after her birth that I met your father for the first time since we lived together. We were just about to be very comfortable in your room in the hospital as a police officer entered the room to announce the arrival of the prince. I asked you if you wanted me to leave you alone with your dad. You refused.I was a little afraid of my own reaction as well as of his....I didn't take me long to realize that this hours would turn out very nice. He arrived, kissed you tenderly and then he turned to me shaking my hand he said' Bonjour ' and I said: ' Bonjour Monseigneur' ( Monseigneur =Highness ) I always adressed him this way even after our mariage. Only very few people even of his very close 'entourage' (team) were allowed to call him differently. I think this is a mark of respect everyone shows towards him. You, you have the privilige to call him 'Papoune' ....
Couples that "reunite" are always a good-selling story, seems to be a magical theme Thanks for taking the time and quoting that many parts of Daniel's books, Michelle!michelle said:You're all very welcome...I'll continue with more later.
'Bunte news' reports once again that Stephanie and Daniel will be 'reuniting' ( are they a band, or what? ) ....but they use to make this up every once in a while ....
...anyway here's the link:
Stephanie and Daniel 'reunited'
...Michael knows that his mother is Martine. Louis and Pauline don't have the same mother, their mom is Stephanie...when they were little the children didn't really understand that if they had different mothers how on earth could they have the same daddy. Sometimes little arguments between them happend and the started to hout: ' He's my daddy'...'No he's mine...' I eplained that having two different mommys but the same daddy is perfectly possible and the seemed to understand....When we lived together Martine wanted to visit us before leaving Michael with us for the weekend. She wanted to know how the conditions would be like for her son. For you this estimation was totaly normal. You thought that it was perfectly understandable that the simple fact to be a Grimaldi is not enough to have peoples confidence without limits.....My three children are very different charecters. Michael is is very sensible and reserved, alittle solidary which is due to the fact that he is the only child with his mom. He's very polite and almost never nasty....Louis is a turbulant kid, who is filled with life. He is a bomb,choleric,open and communicative. He loves or he hates, there's nothing in between for him. He's able to do the worse and then he transformes himself into a little angel, who calls me at night when he needs attention, then he takes me into his armes and whispers': 'Papa, I love you very much.' ... Pauline, I call her ' ma petite chipie'. She has a very strong personality. She would never agree to stand behind. When Louis takes me into his arms ahe wants the same and repeats word for word : 'Papa, I love you very much.' The more I look at her,the more I feel like she resembles you. She has your eyes, that#s for sure.
Enven though it would have been normal for you to have employees doing the grocery shopping, you prefered to do it yourself. Every morning after taking the children to kindergarten you went to the supermarket. It was said that a lot of monegasques were happy and thought it was fun to go there and meet their princess. So you are very accessable.... Our all-day-life resembled each and everyones. We took our breakfast all the four of us while watching cartoons...then we tried to go for all the kisses we would need to survive the day before everyone left for his obligations. You took the kids to kindergarten and I went off for work. As I had just started a company in Italy and also was involved in my brothers security business I had a ot of things to do. I took my appointments in the morning so that we could have lunch together. You always prepared salad nicoise and big baskets of fruit. Afterwords we mostly went into our fitnessroom for half an hur of exercises and finally we found ourselves on the terace with a good cup of coffee.....In the afternoon I went for work again. I often thought about what you were doing at the precise moment when I was at the office. I imagined that at 4.30 p.m. you went to fetch the kids at kindergarten and then you three went playing, inlineskating and for a walk....In the evening there was a very special ritual that I never wanted to miss. The kids bath...the two of them having fun in the water, washing their hair....Sometimes we took our bath all the four of us together. I would have wanted the time to stop. I never called you Stephanie and you never called me Daniel. First it was:' Mon bébé' ( my baby ) You took me into your arms and told me I was your baby and that you wanted take care of me. I always liked to be taken care of and being careed, you know how to do this very well. Then we called us: 'Ma vie' ( my life) and finally we got used to calling each other 'mommy' and 'daddy' just because we taught the kids to o so....
And here I am 10 years later...
michelle,
Thank you very much for these interpretations. I have wanted to read Lettre à Stéphanie since it was published in 1997 but never managed to secure a copy. Being an American who couldn't read or speak French may have had a little to do with it.
So you actually knew Daniel and Stéphanie during their romantic relationship?