Charlene de Monaco (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, age 44) has become the European royal for the third time in 2022, spending the most money on clothes and jewelry in a single year. In the last 12 months, Prince Albert’s wife has invested just over 739,541 euros in her wardrobe and accessories. According to a study by UFO No More, the website specializing in fashion for royal houses, which analyzes the cost and budget of her wardrobe every year, this budget was spent on 105 new items of clothing for her wardrobe. The princess of the small European kingdom was already the one to invest the most money in 2019 and 2020 and now she repeats herself at number one.
The sum invested by Charlene de Monaco is surprising given that the princess has just returned to work after 16 months of vacation due to “emotional and physical exhaustion”. Last June, she resurfaced in the Norwegian city of Oslo with her husband Alberto, 64, and their children Jacques and Gabriella, twin boys of seven, in what would become the first official trip outside the Principality of Monaco since his recovery.
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The Monegasque princess has garnered attention with her outfits since her wedding in 2011. Firstly by her choice of colour, such as the pristine white she would choose for Monaco’s National Day which is celebrated on November 19th. In 2020, he also caused a stir with his new punk-style haircut, in which part of the head was shaved.
Prince Albert II of Monaco, Princess Charlene of Monaco and their twin children Jacques and Gabriella attend the opening of the traditional Christmas ceremony at the Palace of Monaco on December 14, 2022. Portal
Second on the list and by some distance in terms of money spent is Olympia of Greece (New York, 26 years old), granddaughter of Constantine of Greece – brother of Queen Sofia – who has invested €227,604 in 51 pieces New from your closet. The eldest daughter of Pablo de Grecia and Marie-Chantal Miller lives in New York and managed to be the image of such companies as Tory Burch and Dolce & Gabbana, presenting at Copenhagen Fashion Week in 2018. Her Instagram profile, with 271,000 followers, is a continuous waste of luxury, parties and pomp and a showcase for big luxury brands like Tiffany, Louis Vuitton or Aquazzura, for which she has just been appointed ambassador.
Olympia from Greece attends the opening of a Tiffany & Co. exhibition in London on June 9, 2022. David M Benett (Getty)
There has been much speculation about the expenses Kate Middleton made on the tour that took her and husband Prince William to the Caribbean last March. For this trip, the Princess of Wales spent €41,000 on new clothes and undertook 18 wardrobe changes, including with the likes of Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Jenny Packham and Gianvito Rossi. But although Kate Middleton published almost twice as many pieces as Charlene de Monaco (204 in total) in 2022, Kate Middleton ranked third: The dresses and accessories she wore in 2022 cost 217,310 euros.
Kate Middleton attends a Christmas carol concert at Westminster Abbey, London, UK on 15th December 2022. Richard Pohle (Getty Images)
In the report released by UFO No More early last year on royal spending in 2021, the then-Duchess of Cambridge became the princess who had spent the most on clothes and jewelry, unveiling 118 new items of clothing with a total cost of 102,711 euros, which average cost per garment of 1,006 euros.
Despite the many events William of England’s wife attends, she is not the busiest member of the British royal family. His political aunt, Princess Ana, the second and only daughter of Elizabeth II, is the royal figure to have attended the most official engagements in 2022, totaling 214 events, according to People magazine.
Queen Letizia attends a meeting at the Fundación Juventud FAD at the ENDESA headquarters in Madrid on December 16, 2022. Paolo BloccoGetty
For her part, Queen Letizia is among the last places on the list of monarchs and princesses who, like in previous years, spend the most money and invest in their wardrobe. While it was 11th in 2021, it has fallen to 14th in 2022. The queen, who has been betting on cheap Spanish brands like Zara and Mango for years, recycles past outfits and even swaps her wardrobe with her daughter, the Infanta Leonor, who has premiered 129 new pieces and spent 53,919 euros, a far cry from the 739,541 that Charlene de reached Monaco.