A day after the civil wedding that transformed one-time Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock into the Princess of Monaco, she and Prince Albert II wed in a star-studded religious ceremony today.

PRINCESS Caroline of Monaco’s controversial third husband, a German prince, is reported to be in a coma in the intensive care unit of a hospital in the principality.

MONACO'S ailing Prince Rainier clung to life today, breathing through a respirator in an intensive care unit, with doctors refusing to say whether he might recover and his subjects praying that he will.

Prince Rainier’s stamp is everywhere in the Riviera enclave of Monaco, from his hilltop palace down to the principality’s yacht-filled harbour.