Prince Albert’s former accountant outs his wife Princess Charlene’s ‘dangerous’ spending habits
Prince Albert’s former accountant has outed the royal family’s financial dealings, including the “dangerous” spending habits of his wife, Princess Charlene.
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Prince Albert of Monaco’s former accountant has outed some of the financial dealings of the Monaco royal family, especially highlighting the “dangerous” spending habits of his wife, Princess Charlene of Monaco.
According to accountant Claude Palmero, Princess Charlene reportedly employed “illegal immigrants” and paid them 100 Euros ($AUD165) per day, all while her personal spending allowance reached more than one million Euros ($AUD1.65 million) a year.
Palmero – who managed the palace finances for more than 20 years before he resigned in July 2023 after he was targeted by an anti-corruption website – shared his “secret notebooks” with French newspaper Le Monde, in which he said illegal migrants made up most of Princess Charlene’s personal staff of eight.
“Her Serene Highness the Princess makes people work for her who are not compliant,” Palmero, 67, is said to have warned Prince Albert, as per the Daily Mail.
In the notebooks, there was also mention of “a moonlighting Filipino woman who ties up dogs in the shower”.
The accountant also revealed in a letter written in 2017 that another member of staff from the Philippines had been “illegal for five years”, despite being on a one-month tourist visa.
“He gets paid 100 euros a day, which is off the scale,” Palmero wrote.
Princess Charlene also reportedly hired illegal immigrant nannies to care for her and Prince Albert’s twins, Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, after their birth in 2014.
However, one nanny’s tourist visa was reportedly expired, while another reportedly entered with a false passport.
Despite Palermo’s concerns, Princess Charlene then reportedly proceeded to throw the twins an extravagant baptism that cost 600,000 Euros ($AUD990,000).
She also reportedly spent 826,000 Euros ($AUD1.3 million) redecorating their holiday home in Corsica, while also splashing 860,000 Euros ($1.4 million) to decorate her office in Monte Carlo.
On one occasion in 2016, Princess Charlene also reportedly requested 66,000 Euros ($AUD109,000) in one day.
“Isn’t that a lot?” Palermo had questioned at the time, before warning: “These practices are dangerous.”
“It’s crazy!” he also wrote at the time. “I have no control over the princess’s spending.”
Palermo’s notebooks also claim that Prince Albert spends millions every year using a secret French bank account to send money to his former mistresses and their children – Jazmin Grimaldi, 31, and Alexandre Coste-Grimaldi, 20 – being paid 344,000 euros ($AUD570,000) annually each.
Originally published as Prince Albert’s former accountant outs his wife Princess Charlene’s ‘dangerous’ spending habits
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