Charlotte Casiraghi
“I got to know a different side of Karl this summer”
Charlotte Casiraghi (left) and her mother, Princess Caroline of Hanover (right) pose with Karl Lagerfeld at the Rose Ball in Monaco in March 2015.
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Interviews by Charlotte Casiraghi are rare, Princess Caroline’s daughter reveals little about herself and her private life. Now she’s making a little exception.
Like her mother, Charlotte Casiraghi, 35, is closely associated with the fashion house Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, †85, was always considered a close friend of the royal family. “Karl and I were very close, he was like a family member,” Princess Caroline of Hanover, 65, told French magazine Point de Vue after the designer’s death in 2019.
Charlotte Casiraghi on her summer with Karl Lagerfeld
Charlotte Casiraghi has been a Chanel brand ambassador since 2021, and she opened the last haute couture show in January 2022 on a horse. In an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the 35-year-old now talks about her great passion, literature, and also reveals what Karl Lagerfeld has to do with it.
One summer, Charlotte Casiraghi was vacationing at Lagerfeld’s villa in Biarritz, France. Here the fashion designer had a library that included over 200,000 books. Charlotte wanted to help him sort them. Actually. “We didn’t sort that much, we were more like two children alone in a shop full of sweets,” says Casiraghi in the SZ interview. I got to know a different side of Karl this summer. Surrounded by his books he was enthusiastic, happy, excited. He always wanted to show me something new. That was something we shared, that sense of bliss of being surrounded by books.”
“My mother is a big reader”
Charlotte inherited her love of literature from her mother. “My mother is a big reader. My great-grandfather, Prince Pierre, was also very interested in literature,” she continues. She prefers to go to a bookstore and let herself drift. “I always buy more books than I intended to. It’s too tempting. Really, I’m like a four-year-old in the candy store. It’s paradise for me,” says the mother-of-two. She goes on to say that she tries to read a few pages every day, “usually before going to sleep.”
Lunch together – with a romantic gesture from Dimitri
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For Charlotte, who studies philosophy and founded the “Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco” in 2015, it can also be something easy during the holidays, “biographies and essays” for example. “On the beach, it doesn’t always have to be Baudelaire [Charles-Pierre Baudelaire war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Lyriker, Anm. d. Red.] be,” said the 35-year-old.
Sources used: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 35 from 12./13. February 2022, pointdevue.fr