Monaco: Even Less Interesting Than I Always Thought

The ladies of YBMMF were pretty excited for the wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock. She is super-gorg, has good taste, and there was a chance until the last moment, according to the press, that she wasn't going to show up to her own wedding, which would have been quite something. But she did, and while the outfits for the religious ceremony and the reception were both very nice, very safe but lovely, the civil ceremony getup was a scrolldown head-scratcher:

Gack! It's like she woke up late in her blue nightgown and, while racing toward the main floor, stole the blazer off a tour guide at the palace. Really, Charlene? I feel like we're going to see her in lots of things like this from now on.

For me, this was a troubling sign of what was to come, fashion wise, the next day: a whole lotta pastels, a whole lot of really minor European royalty, and a ton of playing it safe.  The entire Casiraghi clan (i.e. the spawn of Grace Kelly) look super pissed in every photo, pretty much everyone looks like they went to the same overzealous plastic surgeon on the way to the ceremony, and several people look squeezed in to pastel blandness that really wasn't worth it. The only guests I found the least bit intriguing were these:

Who is that, you ask? That is the Aga Khan in the center, I believe Bernadette Chiraq on the right, and Farah Pahlavi, the widow of the Shah, on the left. I've actually never seen her before, but I find her quite chic, so we'll have to keep our eye out for her. According to the proliferation of news about her on the Interwebs, she is another commoner who married a royal (although Iran didn't have the kind of royalty-in-waiting class that Europe does), she is very well educated and has pretty much lived quietly between Washington and Paris for a long time. And she's clearly friends with the Aga Khan, which is a point in her favor. Also, she didn't wear a tiara to this wedding, unlike a whole lot of other people, and for that, I commend her.