シャルレーヌ公妃、モナコに帰国　南ア滞在中に急病で手術

【ニースＡＦＰ＝時事】モナコのシャルレーヌ公妃（４３）が８日、母国の南アフリカからモナコに帰国した。公室筋が明らかにした。公妃は数か月間の南ア滞在中、急病で倒れ手術を受けていた。（写真はシャルレーヌ公妃。資料写真）
　ジンバブエで生まれ、南アフリカで育ったシャルレーヌ公妃は９月、南ア滞在中に耳鼻咽喉感染症の合併症で倒れ、ダーバンにある病院に緊急搬送されて手術を受けていた。情報筋は当時、手術が「非常にうまくいった」と説明。公妃は８月にも手術を受けたとされるが、その詳細は公表されていない。
　南アフリカ代表の水泳選手として五輪出場経験を持つシャルレーヌ公妃は、２０１１年にアルベール２世公（６３）と結婚。その直後、挙式前夜に逃亡を図っていたとのうわさが広がったが、公室はこれを否定している。
　アルベール２世公は、レーニエ３世公と、１９８２年に交通事故で亡くなった米人気女優グレース・ケリーさんの息子。
　欧州メディアの間では、アルベール２世公とシャルレーヌ公妃が離婚に向かっている可能性をめぐる報道が過熱している。公妃は今年の大半を南アフリカで過ごした。医療上の理由で滞在を余儀なくされていると説明しているが、同国で家探しをしているとの報道もある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/11/09-17:48）

Princess Charlene returned to Monaco on Monday after spending several months in her native South Africa where she underwent surgery, a palace source said.
The Zimbabwean-born princess, 43, had been rushed to hospital in Durban, South Africa, in September after collapsing as the result of complications stemming from an ear, nose and throat infection.
The operation went very well, a source said at the time.
She had already undergone surgery in August, but no details concerning that operation have been released.
Lifestyle magazines across Europe have speculated feverishly that the royal couple could be headed for divorce.
Princess Charlene has been in South Africa for most of this year, saying she was forced to stay for medical reasons, though media reports suggests she is looking for a house there.
The former South African Olympic swimmer married Prince Albert II in 2011, after first appearing with him at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Soon after they got married rumours emerged, denied by the royal palace, that Charlene had tried to escape on the eve of the wedding.
There have also been claims that she consented to going ahead with the ceremony only after the prince agreed to an exorbitant divorce settlement should she decide later that she wanted to leave after all.
Her last public appearance with Albert in Monaco was in January. On August 25, she posted pictures with her husband and children on Instagram.
Albert, 63, is the son of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly, an American film star who died in a car accident in 1982.