Monaco's Princess Caroline's husband 'in a coma'

[emad]

Telegraph
(Filed: 08/04/2005)

The husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco has slipped into a coma just days after her father Prince Rainier died, a palace source has said.

Prince Ernst August of Hanover, 51, was admitted to a Monaco hospital on Monday with pancreas pains and has been in a coma since the following evening, the source added.


German Prince Ernst August of Hanover and Princess Caroline
The palace itself declined comment.

Prince Rainier III, Europe's longest-serving monarch died on Wednesday at the age of 81 after lung, heart and kidney problems.

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PRINCE ERNST of HANGOVER????

[Dookus]

1. That is not a very lucky family

despite their wealth.

[hippiechick]

3. They are supposed to be 'cursed', aren't they ?

Or am I confusing them with another set of obscure royals (not the Brits) ... ??


:shrug:

[meppie-meppie not]

54. I heard they were cursed too. Seems to me it was a curse

given some 700 years or so ago?

[liberalhistorian]

4. No, they certainly aren't

lucky in that respect. And poor Caroline has already suffered the death of one husband, her first husband who was killed in a water racing accident in the 80's; that really devastated her for a long time. I'm sorry to see she's having to go through it again, especially just after the death of her father.

[xxqqqzme]

12. I think it was her 2nd husband.

She divorced the 1st one, or it was annulled.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

18. This is her " third " husband .

Her first husband was a playboy , many years her senior . The Roman Catholic Church had this marriage annulled . Her second husband , Casiraghi , an Italian industrialist , died in a freak speed boat accident . This is her third marriage , the one to Prince Ernst August . She is now Princess Caroline of Hannover now .

[K8-EEE]

21. Oh Yeah, I Forgot About Philippe Junot!

THAT was a quickie marriage, not even a year I think! Casaraghi seemed like an OK guy.

[lebkuchen]

32. Is this one of those TGIF "Latest Breaking News" threads

that belongs in the lounge?

Yeah, whatever.

Tell me more! I'm in the mood for gossip.

[cmkramer]

33. Official Title

Actually, I believe her official title is HRH The Princess of Hanover.

Incidentally, if Great Britain had Salic Law -- which means that only males inherit and there was no Royal Marriages Act -- which prohibits anyone in the line of succession from marrying a Catholic -- Ernst August and Caroline would be King and Queen of the United Kingdom. In fact, the Hanovers still consider themselves to be "Prince(sses) of Great Britain and Ireland"

[lebkuchen]

37. Anybody's better than Tony, imo.

[greatauntoftriplets]

89. I'm of Irish ancestry....

and they aren't prince and princesses of anything to do with me.

;)

[OldLeftieLawyer]

2. He's a real wildman

That guy has a strange history. I think she's his distant cousin, which isn't that odd, given the incestuous nature of European royal families.

But, hey, Camilla's a peasant, right?

[smirkymonkey]

6. I wonder if it's pancreatitis due to alcoholism....

apparently the Prince Ernst has been quite the drinker most of his life.

Poor Caroline, she has really suffered through so much. And with such grace.

[emad]

11. Me & Mine once had a goddawful encounter with this scion of

Hanover. In Paris in the bar of our hotel, Ernst was pissed as a fart and demanded a private booth for him and his entourage to drink in.

He walked up to where we were sitting drinking our anniversary champagne and told us to F*** Off from his reserved banquette.

This did not go down well with my better half who summoned the cops because Ernst was spitting and fell over, smashing our bottle of Crystal onto the ground.....

Cops eventually came after Ernst continued his fracas with the bar manager who'd been sent to deal with the mess..........

Don't know what happened to him next, but we did get a complimentary replacement of our bubbly...and a profuse apology.

[lebkuchen]

13. This happened before the days of cameras in cell phones I presume?

You could have made some big bucks off the photos, my friend.

[emad]

14. It was 1997. The lawsuit was settled out of court and my better

half deducted our expenses before donating the rest of the money to charity.

[lebkuchen]

15. Wow!

What a story you have to tell your kids! :)

[emad]

17. Or maybe even the UK's Daily Mirror one day, to pay the kids'

university tuition fees....hehehe....

[lebkuchen]

19. I insist

you carry along one of those camera "handies" on your future endeavours. I sense that adventure follows you wherever you go.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

34. I join in the insisting

GREAT story, and a very fine outcome.

Kudos...........

:applause:

[emad]

104. Thank you. Now seriously reconsidering rash 1997 behavior and

husband's considered settlement out of public eye...........

[emad]

103. For adventure substitute the word 'harassment'...but it has been a

colorful existence .........

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

25. Totally off topic ...

but I just love your screenname:) lol

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[lebkuchen]

27. The reason I chose it

is because there is nothing sweet about me. I love decoys.

Written into my will: the words "sweet" and "God" are forbidden at my funeral.

:)

[K8-EEE]

20. Stories Like This ABOUND!!

Jeez it is a mystery what she saw in this guy. I think she must have had a nervous breakdown!! Remember when he got busted in Germany for being drunk and peeing somewhere in public...omg...!

[lebkuchen]

24. You can pee anywhere you want to in France.

[leveymg]

31. Especially, in those little booths marked: Defense d' Sanitaire

At first, I thought French policemen had terrible bladder control problems.

That may also explain why the British say drunks are "pissed".

:bounce: :spray:

[lebkuchen]

35. A fellow traveler!

Have we met? I was the one who was pissed at the bar (in need of a body guard) with a pint of Guiness in hand.

I hope my singing didn't annoy you. :7

[leveymg]

42. I thought that was snoring.

Have another, on me. :beer:

[lebkuchen]

47. I have an FM voice, leveymg

or so I'm told.

Eat your heart out. :*

[caligirl]

100. I thought Princess Grace was hoping Caroline

would marry this guy when she met and married her first. I at least recall when these two married the ever so reliable press mentioned this. But what do they know.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

23. Don't forget he also " urinated " on a wall ...

in 2000 , I think it was at the 2000 World Expo in Hannover as well . He is not quite the brightest man I see .

[lebkuchen]

29. What is America's problem with public urination?

Aren't you ever caught in an hours-long stau (traffic jam) and have to go? The bummer is that it's more difficult for women. That's why I have a toilet in the van. :)

[smirkymonkey]

96. Wow! So sorry your evening was ruined by such a disgusting

person - what is it with people of extreme privilege that they feel they have the right to treat others in such a way? I used to work someone like that - he was the most miserable human being I had ever met.

Caroline is probably better off without him.

[K8-EEE]

16. Yeah the first husband died in a racing car accident....

Poor Caroline!

My aunt gets those Hola magazines from Spain, I couldn't believe the last batch -- Caroline's daughter Carlotta looks EXACTLY like her mom, like, they could be twins. Stephanie looks SO OLD! Like the sunscreen poster child, don't let this happen to you sun worshippers!

[lebkuchen]

22. What had happened to her in her "turban" days?

I never understood what that was all about.

[July]

26. Report yesterday on Rainier on Spanish television said

that Caroline shaved her head after Casiraghi died.

Ernst of Hanover didn't show at Crown Prince Felipe's wedding (in Spain), supposedly because he was hung over. That's the dirt from Spain, anyway.

[cmkramer]

28. She lost all her hair

I don't know what the cause was, but Princess Caroline's hair all fell out. That's why you saw her in turbans for a while there. Whatever she had -- alopecia? -- apparently has cleared up now though.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

36. It was after

her second husband died.

The first one was that playboy, Junot, I think his name was, and it lasted only a couple of years.

The second one died in a speedboat accident. She has three kids with him, and, yes, the daughter is her clone! The sons look just like their father, who was a blonde, blue-eyed northern Italian, also a bit of a playboy.

This third guy, I remember reading that she busted up his marriage to some other princess. I have no idea why.

The hair thing was reported to be stress-related after the shocking death of her second husband.

(I hate myself for knowing stuff like this.)

[lebkuchen]

39. Oh come on. It's Friday!

and I'll bet you have hair to let loose. }(

[OldLeftieLawyer]

45. Don't encourage me

I'm already settling in for the 7 a.m. MSNBC coverage tomorrow of Chuck and Camilla .......................

[lebkuchen]

48. That's what I miss about America

Good bar talk

[OldLeftieLawyer]

53. Oh, you've definitely found a home here

We should have a whole area for ourselves to trash talk the tabloids we read.

I know I'm not alone here now. Bless you, my child.

I'm wearing a hat for the reception tomorrow....................

[lebkuchen]

56. I prefer trash talk to the bad Bernard Shaw play featured at the WH

Sometimes you've just gotta ignore the looming dark cloud. After all, life IS short.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

74. Remember Snoopy?

Man, I can't believe this comic strip just came back to me:

Snoopy, dancing up on top of his doghouse, saying, "To dance is to live! To live is to dance!"

Dancing and laughing. Sometimes that's all that separates us from the Charlie Mansons.............

[lebkuchen]

86. dancing

Before I moved five years ago, that's all I did, was dance. Not that events have gone downhill since then, far from it, but it's something I miss, and need to get back to.

Thanks for the reminder.

[piece sine]

44. the son, Prince Andrea, is a living doll

Obviously, Grace Kelly's dashing grandson. But theirs is not a country as much as a tax shelter.

[cmkramer]

He's not a prince

None of Caroline's three oldest children -- Andrea, Charlotte,and Pierre -- have the title of Prince or Princess. Her younger daughter Alexandra is a Princess since her father is a Prince. However, if Albert does not have his own children to inherit, Andrea will one day be the Prince of Monaco. But he's not a Prince yet.

Also, if Caroline were to succeed her brother -- she's currently next in line -- then I believe her children would be Prince(s) and Princess of Monaco although I'm not completely sure about that.

[CottonBear]

61. The children would not be princes or princesses

even if Caroline takes the throne. If Andrea or Pierre or Charlotte were to take the throne after her, then they would be a Prince or Princess of Monaco.

They are a technically a "princely family."

Caroline is Her Royal Highness, The Princess of Hanover. She was, formerly, Her Serene Highness, Princess Caroline of Monaco.

HRH outranks HSH.

[lebkuchen]

64. Can one be "princely" and drunk at the same time?

[LisaM]

51. Cancer, I believe. n/t

[NashVegas]

58. Cancer

I think it was breast cancer, can't remember for certain.

[gardenista]

81. She lost all of her hair due to a disease. nt

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

38. Yeah Charlotte looks just like her mom !

Splitting image of her mother .

[CottonBear]

62. Racing boat accident, not racing car accident . n/t

[leftchick]

63. I believe the daughter is Charlotte...

and you are right. She could be Caroline's clone...

[cliss]

55. You're right, apparently.

There was a photo of Prince Ernst in some tabloid a few years ago. I believe it was shortly after they became an "item". Princess Caroline was already pregnant with her 4th child when they decided to get married.

Interesting thing is, Prince Ernst was already married to a french woman named Chloe, and she was good friends with Caroline. So Chloe accused Caroline of being a husband-robber. The previous couple already had several kids.

Chloe hopefully did not mourn too long. Prince Ernst has a long history of non-stop drinking. He's been called "a pig" by innocent bystanders. A few years ago, he peed on some public statue and made a spectacle of himself. I think there was a story about him hitting someone over the head with a bottle. In other words, real AA material, here. Also, a co-dependent Al-anon family system which perpetuates this sick behaviour.

Princess Grace always regretted that none of her kids had married into royalty. Like the old-fashioned ways in Europe, when kings and queens married each other to consolidate kingdoms and power.

Looks like Grace got her wish, after all. Caroline married into royalty, unlike her youngest daughter who ran off with a circus performer, lays on the beach topless in Monaco, and so on.

Interesting family.

[lebkuchen]

60. To say the least.

[CottonBear]

67. Her name is Chantal Hochuli, not Chloe. n/t

[cliss]

98. Thanks, cotton.

I recall reading this article several years ago. Yes: Chantal that was it.:smoke:

[leftchick]

72. and disfunctional....

and Ernst is downright homely. I was shocked when I first saw here with him. Like beauty and the beast!

[smirkymonkey]

97. The poor Grimaldi sisters have the WORST taste in men!

You would think as princesses they would have it all, but their self-esteem seems that it couldn't go any lower when it comes to chosing their mates.

[liberalhistorian]

8. Maybe that's one of the many

reasons Diana called her "The Rottweiler!" :evilgrin:

I know, I know, I'm terrible.

[lebkuchen]

49. I thought "rottweiler" was reserved for Tom DeLay

Seriously

[CottonBear]

65. Diana was speaking of Camilla not Caroline. n/t

[lebkuchen]

69. This should be nominated for world's greatest thread

Guess I'm in "one of those moods."

[OldLeftieLawyer]

76. I was just thinking that,

when I saw your post.

Really. This is just so good, isn't it?

So, Camilla? You see that engagement ring? I am so jealous. I'd bang Chuck for that ring.

Wait...............

(reconsidering)

[Pachamama]

95. I'd rather bang Camilla for that ring...Chuck has absolutely no sex appeal

She atleast has a little more than he.... :eyes:

Aahh...nice to take a break and do what the rest of America does and instead of focusing on all the CRAP this administration and Congress is doing to destroy our country, we can all have a People magazine moment...

So where was I....Oh yeah, I'd rather bang Camilla to get that Mega Rock than Chuck....

[liberalhistorian]

101. I know that; the post I was

responding to was referring to Camilla being a "peasant" and not royalty.

[Fleshdancer]

5. That would be hell...losing your father and then this

I agree with the previous poster. This family has some seriously bad luck it seems.

[SemperEadem]

52. within two days

my mother lost both her husband (my dad) and her mother. It is an extreme strain, especially if the parent was the only surviving parent.

[WI_DEM]

7. boy when it rains it pours

[Up2Late]

9. It's MURDER, MURDER I Say!

The New, Never Married, but future King, wants to be sure Caroline doesn't try to take the throne from him.

[lebkuchen]

10. I met some helicopter pilots who had partied w/Stephanie

Don't recall where, but she had bodyguards with her, got drunk, and pass out at the bar in "party-girl" fashion.

It's got to be difficult on the psyche when you're set for life and have no where to go but down. Ultimately, I think it's part of human nature to need to struggle to achieve. I think this family missed that opportunity.

Maybe that's why the Pope rests in peace.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

41. I don't think this family missed that opportunity at all .

Put Stephanie aside . Albert II is involved in many charities around the world , including being a member of the IOC and is also an Olympian . Caroline , despite the obstacles that have come up in her life , is raising 4 children who are turning out well despite having the entire world at their feet . I don't think any opportunities have been missed . No family is perfect but I don't think they are dysfunctional as the gossip media makes them either .

[lebkuchen]

46. This family has had lots to talk about around the Xmas goose

The "drama du jour" family, as per the front page of any magazine seen at the world's checkout counter, the sum (total) of what anybody thinks they know about them.

[smirkymonkey]

99. Apparently Princess Grace had quite a drinking problem in

her later years, maybe Stephanie has inherited the gene and Caroline became the Co-dependent one.

It sounds like a typical Alcoholic family system.

[cliss]

102. Very true.

Alcoholism is a family illness. We inherit these traits from our ancestors. Sometimes the disease of alcoholism can skip a generation and the grandchildren show symptoms of the disease.

According to John Bradshaw, families often show the symptoms according to the birth order of the children. After studying thousands of alcoholic families, they've come to certain conclusions about them.

For example, the oldest child rarely becomes an alcoholic. If they have grown up with alcoholism, they often become rigid, autocratic, often fundamentalist religious. The youngest child, on the other hand, has the biggest risk of becoming an alcoholic.

There are other roles that the children play, such as the troublemaker, the enabler, the perfect child, the entertainer, the focus of the family's anger, and so on. Incredibly intersting stuff, considering that most families have an alcoholic somewhere.

[passy]

30. At least she has good genes!

But yes, she is one unlucky woman. Mother, husband 1, Father and now maybe husband 2.

[leveymg]

40. When mom looks like that, you have at least a 50/50

chance of being a stunner.

Gawd, Grace was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood in her "It Takes A Thief" days. Also, one of the least inhibited, I hear. That may be in the genes, as well.

[lebkuchen]

43. 42 posts off Princess Caroline in five minutes on a Friday

Not bad!

Got any more good stories to tell? :9

[lebkuchen]

50. Make that 50

I nominate it for "greatest thread" to boot.

[Karenina]

57. In LBN, yet!!!

:wow: Schön! Armer Ernst, such a sorry excuse for a human being...
WHAT was she THINKING???? :shrug:

[lebkuchen]

59. We have a picture of HER

but what does HE look like?

(I actually READ People cover to cover at the checkout counter, rather than look at the pics)

[Karenina]

66. Schatz, der Mann be

YOOGLAY. I mean SERIOUS "Look-in-my-face-an-tell-me-I-be-fucked." :evilgrin:

[elehhhhna]

68. Like this;

Her hair fell out while Ernst was courting her behind his wife (her good friends) back.

[lebkuchen]

70. That's all there is?

Then let's keep dancing, and break out the booze, and have a ball, if that's all there is.

[CottonBear]

71. Here is a picture of the couple:

[lebkuchen]

73. Tell me she didn't lose her hair over this guy

Tell me she's not wearing a baby harp seal on her head.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

75. Ewwwwwwww

Caroline's had some bad facelift stuff done. Check out the upper lip.

Not good.

[lebkuchen]

77. Oh come on!

Doesn't everybody go to that genius in Beverly Hills?

[OldLeftieLawyer]

78. The really good guy -

the one who's been doing the over-the-years snips on Goldie Hawn, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, et al. - is in Brazil.

[lebkuchen]

79. Let me just say

I know who "did" Michelle Pfieffer.

[leveymg]

82. If he's so good, why's he hiding out in Braxil?

B-)

Beaches covered with brown bodies, perhaps?

[CottonBear]

88. No plastic surgery, just aging and smoking and sun.

She's 48 years old and looks damn good.

[lebkuchen]

93. Princess Caroline smokes AND suns? No way

No way in hell. No gene is that tough.

[CottonBear]

94. Yes she does. There a few pictures of her smoking.

There is a press agreement not to photograph her smoking.

She also won a suit in a German court which prevents the paprazzi from photographing her and her children in public places in the EU and in GB.

[lebkuchen]

80. What just happened?

Did we get demoted?

[leveymg]

83. We're WAY off topic, and stayed past closing.

Admin turned off the lights in the bar.

[lebkuchen]

84. Those are the "magic moments" in life

wouldn't you agree?

[leveymg]

87. Then, it's off to find a 16th Century fountain to splash in

[lebkuchen]

91. I still think

this post belongs in LBN.

[leveymg]

90. Why does this subject appeal to so many people around here?

A well-developed sense of fantasy gained from watching Cary Grant and Fellini films late-night. Beats working on a Friday afternoon.

[lebkuchen]

92. In San Francisco, where I'm from, nobody works

They just go to coffee and watch film noir.

That's what I call "life."

[entanglement]

85. Hanover is an old royal house

After the reign of Queen Anne, George, the Elector of Hanover became King of England (George I). He was an 'English' king, but he spoke no English, only German!

[lonestarnot]

105. What is this family cursed?