I stumbled upon an article from Le Figaro Magazine on Princess Caroline's trip, and I wanted to add some pictures I don't think were posted at the time, but mostly, I wanted you to see her handwriting, since some excerpts from her travel diary were published in the magazine. Then I found a really old analysis of P.Caroline's handwriting in Point de Vue, right after her marriage to Philippe. The editor indicated that P. C was a keen believer in graphological interpretations. I actually found the expert's analysis of Philippe much more interesting and intriguing. Anyway, no surprises there : Caroline is described as a sentimental person, with a rich and generous nature, who feels somewhat nostalgic about her childhood, a golden time when she could express her wholesome appetite for life, expansiveness, movement, whimsicality, without constant scrutiny. She assumes her role of married woman with seriousness , moral conscience and is an animated, warm, unpretentious presence. She finds some of the obligations (which? it is not specified) tiresome, and her real interests lie in everything that relates to humanity, art, nature, children, rather than intellectual speculations. But the obligations are also a source of satisfaction, she likes to please, she is feminine, she enjoys being highly regarded and enjoys the homages due to her, for in spite of her ease, she lacks some self-confidence and needs to be reassured by the approval of others. She also fears others may not like or respect her for who she is, and she has a great desire to be loved, deeply and sincerely, for herself. She has an emotional nature and feels everything very intensely. She does not confide easily, discriminates among her friends and remains reserved about her innermost being. She is passionate, absolute in her desires and judgments, and is somewhat impatient. She lives in the present. (It's a bit of a hodge-podge, and I have paraphrased, being now scared to death about posting literal transations...)
What I found interesting is how emotional, intense and passionate her 2004 diary is, just as the graphologist had analyzed in 1978. She says she can't keep from crying as she listens to a very moving song, she never wants to see such pain, misery, poverty ever again, she expresses her outrage that nothing is provided for these poor children who live in these buildings as in prisons. She seems extremely observant of everything around her, everything arouses questions, pleas, shock, a great desire to do something and move other people into action. (She is also very anti-Bush in this article, but you probably know about the letter she wrote to him which was left unanswered.)
In brief, she is as complex a woman as she has always been from a very young age, introspective, writing in a real diary style of discovery, a desire to connect, to use awareness (hers and others' whom she can influence) to do something for people in need. There is a lot more I could add, having reread that Figaro Magazine article but this is a pretty long post as it is. (For example, that her charisma may be a gift from God to in fact influence people).
As always, I love her, what can I say ?
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