They may not live together, but they still form a united couple, especially when cancer gets involved … For 10 years now, Prince Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy (49) has had to deal with melanoma recalcitrant in the nasal septum. Concerns that the husband of Clotilde Courau evokes only very rarely, without ever dramatizing.
It is in the greatest secrecy that the head of the royal house of Italy was hospitalized for the first time in Geneva in December 2011. A first tumor of which he had finally spoken in the review Diva e Donna : “One day I found myself speechless, and my wife Clotilde said to me: “Go consult.” I was diagnosed with a tumor in the nasal septum and underwent a very radical operation: I was removed three quarters of the cartilage and part of the nasal bone, then explained the father of Princesses Vittoria and Luisa (17 and 15 years old). I then had to wait for the result of the analysis to find out if it was a malignant or benign tumor. Luckily, it turned out to be benign. “
Unfortunately, the cancer returned the following year and Prince Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy had to be operated on again. The “evil”, as he calls it on social networks, has been talked about again in 2019: “My health problems are not behind me, they are monitored, he commented to the magazine Gala, in January 2021. I am fortunate to be followed at the Lariboisière hospital in Paris by Professor Herman. He is exceptional and I trust him. “
Is love being together all the time?
Based in Los Angeles, where he runs two successful Italian restaurants, the prince therefore travels back and forth between the United States and France, where his wife and their daughters live. Despite the distance, he closely follows the training of his eldest daughter, Princess Vittoria, who will succeed him as head of the royal house of Savoy in due course.
His life as a couple between two continents, after 18 years of marriage, the Prince of Savoy had just mentioned at the beginning of the year, always with Gala : “Is love being together all the time? Love is thinking about each other when you’re far away, and being happy when you’re together. We went through, like all couples, ups and downs. But we managed to find listening and a real dialogue between us. Straight talk. With Clotilde, we tell each other everything. “