Monaco's Prince Albert (son of the late Princess Grace of Monaco) believes he was 'set up' by a former flight attendant who became pregnant and later delivered his biological daughter.
Asked if he was tricked into having a child, Albert replied, "Yes, I think I was set up".

:whistle:

The only thing set up was his you know what.............

I don't know what the story is here, but there are some women out there who will get pregnant without the man's knowledge. She may tell him she's on the pill. Some women do it because they hope the man will marry them....others just want a baby, and others want to have a rich man's child.

I think I remember hearing the Robert Blake's deceased wife did that. She was determined to have a famous man's baby, so she zeroed in on Blake and Marlon Brando's son, Christian.

What a price that poor woman paid.

If he didn't want a baby he should've used a condom.

If he didn't want a baby he should've used a condom.
Very true, but people get wrapped up in the moment. A lot of people are here by "accident".

If he didn't want a baby he should've used a condom.
BINGO!!!!!! Since he didn't, he better have had an AIDS test. I am wondering why more men haven't posted. Hmmmmm.....

She might have set him up, but he should have been more careful. He is royalty and the woman probably wanted a child who was part of a royal family.

She might have set him up, but he should have been more careful. He is royalty and the woman probably wanted a child who was part of a royal family.
Yeah, it was very careless and stupid of him. Mick Jagger made the same dumb mistake, and it ended his marriage.

Yeah, it was very careless and stupid of him. Mick Jagger made the same dumb mistake, and it ended his marriage.
It doesn't shock me that Mick did what he did. He does it all the time. Prince Albert on the other hand is EXPECTED to be more careful, especially after seeing the mess Stephanie has made of her life.

Someone should have told him to think with his big head and not his little head. ;)

Someone should have told him to think with his big head and not his little head. ;)
Maybe he was thinking "hmmm, I have a big head, wanna see?" LOL

Prince Says He Was 'Set Up' by Woman

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"Even if she doesn’t look remotely like my mother, she will be compared to her," Prince Albert of Monaco says of a potential bride.

NEW YORK (Sept. 11) - Monaco's Prince Albert II said he was "set up" for fatherhood by a former flight attendant who says she had his child, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

"It was a very difficult moment for me," the Times quoted Albert as saying, adding that he is still "coming to terms" with the unintended fatherhood.

When asked if he believed he was tricked into having a child, as the mother's account months ago in the Paris Match magazine suggested, Albert replied, "Yes, I think I was set up," he was quoted as saying.

In an interview six months after the death of Albert's father, the dashing Prince Rainier III, whose marriage to the glamorous Grace Kelly created the Monaco that the world knows today, the Times said the 47-year-old prince is trying to project the gravitas expected of him as a ruler.

The Times said he felt the pressure of finding a princess who can stand up to his mother's legend.

"There was pressure, not so much from the family but people outside were expecting and are still expecting something big to happen," he told the Times, adding that it has taken him a long time to feel ready for that challenge.

"Some called it immaturity," he said. "I don't think it was immaturity, but I wanted to do it in the right way."

He told the Times that finding someone to fill Princess Grace's shoes "has not only scared me, but also many women I have known."

"It has scared them away," he said. "It will be very difficult for whoever will be with me, not even in marriage, whoever goes out with me seriously. Even if she doesn't look remotely like my mother, she will be compared to her."

He told the Times he was not involved with anyone now and was too busy to look.

Despite the principality's lingering image as "a sunny place for shady people," in W. Somerset Maugham's famous phrase, present-day Monaco is really more of a conventioneer and package-tour destination. Only 4 percent of its state revenues comes from the storied casino, and just 10 percent comes from banking transactions. The biggest chunk of national revenue, about two-thirds, comes from a value-added tax on goods and services sold in Monaco, which the principality shares with France.

"I intend, however, that ethics remain the backdrop for all the actions" of the Monaco authorities, he told his subjects in his first speech as sovereign in July, vowing to respect the French and American tax regulations.

He is resisting proposals to extend Monaco's territory with a man-made peninsula extending off the eastern end of the tiny city-state, arguing that a large project would gobble up beachfront, block views and overwhelm the principality's already car-jammed tangle of narrow, twisting roads.

"How many more thousands of people do we want to add to Monaco?" he told the Times. Monaco now has 32,000 residents, 7,100 of whom are citizens.

But there remains the question of an heir, complicated now by his son, Alexandre, who will eventually inherit a healthy portion of the prince's $2 billion fortune. Prince Albert acknowledged paternity in July and has installed the mother and child in a villa in nearby Villefranche on the French Riviera.

He told the Times he had seen Alexandre only once, briefly, since the story became public, "because of his mother's attitude toward me."

"It's not a very pleasant situation," he told the Times. "My only concern now is the well-being of the kid."

He told the Times other women had made similar claims. "I don't know of any others that could be true," he said. He denied he had paid money to Tamara Rotolo, a California woman who claimed she had a daughter, Jazmin, by the prince 13 years ago.

Rotolo made a paternity claim shortly after the child was born, he told the Times, but after an American court dismissed the case, he thought the matter had gone away. Since the story of young Alexandre hit the press, though, he said she had contacted his lawyer again.

"Other people will jump on the bandwagon," he told the Times, chalking it up to the large number of women he has known over the years and of being in the public eye.

As for Alexandre, he told the Times there was no chance that the boy would ever be prince.

"He is not a possible successor," he said, citing Monaco's Constitution, which requires that the parents of heirs to the throne be married. "I don't think that will change."

you know a man (or a male) will be a man, but in this day and age of AIDS, it is so frightening that he had unprotected sex. I assume, maybe the condom broke, but still, that's scary. I was totally shocked when this came out in the news. It had actually surfaced awhile back, but today's paper mentioned the above article. Thanx Janice for finding and posting it. Stephanie and then Caroline and now Albert.

I feel sorry for young Alexandre. He didn't ask to be born. I guess though he will always be well taken cared of (That's the good thing).

Stephanie on the other hand is CA-RA-ZEE.......... :crazy:

yeah, but can u imagine the stigma???? OMG!!!!!

I may be wrong, but I hope I'm right. Perhaps in time, when all the anger and dust settles, Alexandre's parents will call a truce for the sake of their son. Prince Albert may wind up being a great father to him after all.

This boy will be watched closely in the press, and it would be in Albert's best interest to put his negative feelings aside and open his heart and his arms to his son. Otherwise, he'll look like a total dirtbag.

Aside from the PR angle, he should embrace his son because it's the right thing to do. As Pitooey stated, the child didn't ask to be born.

Prince Albert is in his 40's which is old enough to know better. Even if he did get caught up in the moment, it's not like he was some naive kid who couldn't comprehend the outcome his actions may cause. He needs to stand up, be a man and be a good father to his son. It may very well be the only kid he ever has. I'm pregnant with an unplanned child myself but his father would never accuse me of setting him up. We will just make the best of things and our child will always know that he is loved and was meant to be here even if he did arrive a few years earlier than we planned.
Not to be mean or anything but I think the childs mother is downright homely. Prince Albert must have been drunk when he impregnated her.

In this day and age, how can a "man" even say that he was "set up"???? Two persons having sex should know by now that can result in a pregnancy. What is going on here? How can he even have the gall of saying those words??? I can see if he went to press and said words to the effect of "Yes, I have a child with a woman with whom I do not have a relationship...etc etc." It's a shame he even has to answer to the world abt this, but he is a royal and he knows the game. It seems he wants to be a father to the child, but somehow the mother doesn't want to make things easy. How sad.

The only thing set up was his you know what.............

:brent