Between Stéphane Bern and the crowned heads, it’s a long story of love and friendship. Especially with the royal family of Monaco, of which he is the confidant. This Monday, June 13, 2022, the presenter also reveals, exclusively, on France 3, a number of the show secret of history dedicated to the Rock. Images that were shot with more ease, for him, who is so close to certain members of the Grimaldi clan.
He is grateful to me for everything I do to keep the memory of his family alive.
“These are relationships of friendship, mutual respect, affectionexplains Stéphane Bern in the pages of the magazine Tele-Leisure. You see, getting an interview with the prince is easy enough, but getting his trust is significantly harder. Because it is someone who judges you in the long term. And today, he is grateful to me for everything I do to maintain the memory of his family.“Very close to Princess Stéphanie, of Caroline of Hanover, the host met Prince Albert II of Monaco in 1989, when they spent several days together for the purposes of a report.
I preferred to cut the sequence during editing…
Such a friendship has its advantages. The father of Jacques and Gabriella, for example, granted an extraordinary favor to Stéphane Bern: he opened to him, for this special issue of secret of history, the gates of the Château de Marchais, in the Aisne, although it is a private family residence. Very early on, things were crystal clear between these two, who devote themselves to each other with unlimited faith. “He was immediately very friendly, very funnyremembers the companion of Yori. He’s not very comfortable in front of a camera, so to make him relax, I told him jokes. And it worked! The prince knows I’m not going to betray him, much less hurt him! Besides, once, during a program on the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Grace, I asked her a question that was not planned, and I saw the tears in her eyes. I preferred to cut the sequence during editing…“
Find the interview of Stéphane Bern in the magazine Tele-Leisureno. 1893, of June 6, 2022.