Charlotte Casiraghi is elegant in Chanel as she dazzles at the opening of the Paris Opera Ballet

Charlotte Casiraghi was the picture of Monégasque elegance as she lit up the official opening of the Paris Opera Ballet. The daughter of Princess Caroline is a regular at the cultural fixture, held each year at the Palais Garnier.

For the premiere of the 2026-27 season, she opted once more for a sleek Chanel ensemble. Author Charlotte has been an ambassador for the fashion house since 2021 and regularly wears Chanel – a favourite of her grandmother, Grace Kelly – to her numerous chic engagements. This time, she wore a 1920s-inspired black midi dress with a cascade of flowing ruffles, paired with Comète Couture climber earrings, highlighted by her slicked-back bun and glowing beauty look.

Naturally, Charlotte Casiraghi is a regular at the season’s chicest events. All-black was the order of the day again at Paris Fashion Week, which saw the 40-year-old join her newly-engaged sister, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, at Paris Fashion Week. The Princess has spoken of the warm relationship she shares with Charlotte, who is no doubt something of a fashion inspiration for her whole family.

This year has been a particularly special one for the Chanel ambassador. In April, she went public with a new relationship, joining French novelist Nicolas Mathiew for two days of tennis at the Monte Carlo Country Club Roquebrune-Cap-Martin for the Monte Carlo Masters. This might have been the couple’s public debut, but they had already been dating for two years after Charlotte separated from her husband, Dimitri Rassam, with whom she welcomed son, Balthazar.

The ultimate renaissance royal, Charlotte has also spent the year celebrating the release of her debut solo book. Titled La fêlure, or ‘The Crack’, the book combines Charlotte’s literary and philosophical passions and takes its inspiration from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, with Charlotte reflecting on the works of a number of female writers, namely, Ingeborg Bachmann, Colette, Marguerite Duras, and Anna Akhmatova – all of whom have been a great influence on her academic career. ‘This book is not a treatise, nor a narrative, and even less a confession,’ summarises the publisher. ‘It should rather been seen as a journey, a series of variations on the same theme, a refrain that constantly replays a fixed idea: something in us is broken, so much the better.’

While this is the first solo literary endeavour from Charlotte Casiraghi, it is by no means the royal’s first foray into the world of academia. After graduating from the Paris-Sorbonne University in 2007, she studied philosophy at the Sciences Po Doctoral School and the Catholic University of Paris. In 2015, she founded a philosophical think tank in Monaco alongside her teacher, Robert Maggiori, as well as Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly. She would go on to publish a book, Archipelago of the Passions with Maggiori, offering an ‘essay on the passion of thought’ which she dedicated to her father, the late Stephano Casiraghi.

Charlotte Casiraghi has also published the letters she exchanged with the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, and in 2017 wrote the preface to a new book published by Kristeva. She also grew close to the philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle, sharing a passion for horses, and Charlotte wrote about Dufourmantelle’s work, Défense du Secret, in a magazine article.

Following her split from her husband, Charlotte explained how her literary endeavours shaped her approach to life, telling The Telegraph how ‘reading a lot of female writers has helped’ her ‘not to live by expectations and judgements.’ The royal concluded: ‘For me, it’s important to be free from certain conventions.’