Sometimes the tabloids don’t have to make up a thing. From Princess Stephanie of Monaco Weds Circus Acrobat:
Princess Stephanie of Monaco has married a Portuguese circus acrobat, the royal palace said, in the latest of a series of turbulent love affairs that have included liaisons with an elephant tamer and a bodyguard.Stephanie, 38, and Adans Lopez Peres, 29, tied the knot at Eaux-Vives near Geneva Friday, a spokesman for the palace said Tuesday evening. The wedding was a private affair, with none of the royal family present.
Stephanie has a reputation as the enfant terrible of the Grimaldi family, often causing concern to her royal relatives.
But the palace press office said her marriage to Peres took place ‘with the total agreement and good wishes of Prince Rainier who wants only the happiness of his children.’
It could not confirm that the princess, a mother of three, was pregnant again.
Stephanie was a passenger in the 1982 car crash which killed her mother, former Hollywood actress Grace Kelly (news), and she has made regular appearances on tabloid front pages ever since.She is divorced from ex-bodyguard Daniel Ducruet after the Belgian was filmed cavorting beside a swimming pool with a striptease dancer. She also had a liaison with Franco Knie, an elephant tamer, whose circus employs Peres.
Stephanie regularly spends months at a time living in a caravan as part of the circus troupe. Stephanie and Peres met at the Monaco circus festival in 2001, where the princess gave the acrobat a ‘silver clown’ award.