Princess Charlene denies she almost ran from wedding

Princess Charlene of Monaco has broken her silence to deny reports that she was a reluctant, almost runaway bride in the run-up to her marriage to Prince Albert four months ago. The South African former Olympic swimmer, dismissed as “hilarious” rumours that she tried to buy a one-way ticket home to Johannesburg two days before the ceremony. At her husband’s side for their first joint television interview since the £50m wedding, she said: “Why would he go through all this effort to have our… dearest friends come join us, for us to be reluctant?”

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