If Monaco is known as a "sunny place for shady people," the principality's famed Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene aren't afraid to embrace it all. Thanks to Prince Albert's legal troubles , the truth behind palace finances has started to seep out, and let's just say that money has been spent.

According to the 2019 notes from Albert and Charlene's former financial advisor, Claude Palmero — which were later published in Le Monde — the princess had spent "around €15 million, for €7.5 million of endowment." Although Palmero apparently warned her to slow down, Charlene showed no signs of financial restraint. "I think everyone knew their lifestyle was ... glamorous," a royal insider, who had a professional relationship with the family, told The Guardian . "I'm not sure we knew they

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