Nicole coste and biography
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Nicole Coste, the mother of Prince Albert of Monaco’s eldest son, was among the guests at the glittering Monaco Red Cross Ball over the weekend. Coste joined Prince Albert, his wife Princess Charlene and his niece Camille Gottlieb at the charity gala on Saturday night.
Sharing photos on Instagram, Coste revealed she wore a beautiful scarlet halterneck dress with a draped bodice and sleek gentle A-line silhouette. She styled her hair in tight ringlets that tumbled down her back and added a statement accessory in an eye-catching emerald ring.
Nicole Coste, a former Air France flight attendant, is mother to Prince Albert’s second eldest child, Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste, who was born on 24 August News of Alexandre’s parentage was made public in May – two months after Prince Albert II became leader of Monaco following the death of his father, Prince Rainier III. Coste conducted an interview with Paris Match in which she revealed she received an allowance from the prince
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Mother of Prince Albert of Monaco's love child, 18, praises 'committed' father and insists there's never been a financial agreement between them - but hints she's had tensions with Princess Charlene
The mother of Prince Albert of Monaco's love child has praised the 'sensitive' royal's parenting and involvement in their teenage son's life in a rare interview, as rumours continue to virvel around the state of his marriage to Princess Charlene.
Nicole Coste, 49, an Air France air hostess turned mode designer, gave birth to Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste in August , two years before Albert, then heir to the Monegasque throne, started dating Princess Charlene.
Nicole and Albert had dated for five years and the Togo-born beauty had made public appearances with her royal beau and met his father, Rainier III.
But Alexandre's existence was only made public in May when Nicole gave an explosive tell-all interview to French magazine Paris Match, claiming her then two-year-old son was Albert's
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Nicole Coste’s designs reflect influences ranging from Togo to Paris and Knightsbridge. She tells Alba Arikha of her unique experience.
‘You don’t become an artist by accident,’ says the designer Nicole Coste. ‘Art speaks to me and always has.’ A striking-looking woman with confident poise, Coste bided her time before putting her artistic vision into practice. A little more than two years ago she opened her shop, selling high-end ready-to-wear on Beauchamp Place, a small Knightsbridge enclave whose illustrious pavement has been walked, for the last years, by celebrities, jet-setters and royalty.
It wasn’t a straightforward decision, but then again nothing in her life has been straightforward. Coste was born in Lomé, Togo, the youngest of five children. Located on the Gulf of Guinea coast, this West African sliver of a country is sandwiched between Ghana and Benin. A French colony until (French is still the official language), it was once dubbed the ‘pearl of west Africa’,