Happy birthday to you,Prince Albert!
HSH Princess Charlene/Instagram
Prince Jacques, Prince Albert and Princess Gabriella.HSH Princess Charlene/Instagram
While celebrating his milestone 60th birthday last year, Prince Albert showed no signs of slowing down.
“Haven’t you heard?Sixty is the new 40!” he told PEOPLE.
The royal couple decided to postpone celebrating their separate landmarks (Princess Charlene turned 40 on January 25 of last year) and instead hosted a joint “Happy 100th” celebration (60 + 40) for the public over the summer.
Theat-home birthday celebrationhas become the Grimaldi family tradition – and it comes weeks after a very special vacation. Last month, Charleneintroduced the twins to South Africa, the country where she was raised.
During their extended visit, they caught up with her family outside Johannesburg in South Africa, celebrating her father’s birthday at a favorite steakhouse, before joining Prince Albert (who arrived after a trip to India) at a wildlife preserve in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province.
The excursion, which occurred over the children’s winter school break, fulfills a long-expressed wish of Charlene’s to share her home continent (she was born in Zimbabwe and raised in South Africa) with her two children.
“I am African, this is my home,” the 41-year-old royal said during hervisit to Johannesburgtwo years ago. “It will always be.”
She continued, “It’s in my heart, it’s in my veins and it always will be. I can’t wait for [my children] to come here. I can’t wait to introduce them to Africa.”
source: people.com
