The wedding was a festival of lavish excess: the bride in an Armani dress of ivory duchesse silk that revealed her impressive swimmers’ shoulders and the portly groom in a medal-festooned ceremonial jacket.A guest list of royalty and celebrity, plus a breathtaking backdrop of Monte Carlo glamour — from the rose-tinted palace rising above the Mediterranean and fireworks in the harbour to Californian supergroup The Eagles as the wedding band — added to the fairytale atmosphere.But what made this marriage even more remarkable was that it was taking place at all. Just two days before the ceremony, rumours abounded that ’s wife-to-be, Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer 20 years his junior, had booked a one-way ticket home to her native .
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