Carolina de Monaco was dating the legendary Argentine tennis player Guillermo Vilas for five months, who now suffers from a degenerative neurological disease.
The love story between Carolina de Monaco and Guillermo Vilas and Guillermo Vilas, one of the best clay court tennis players of all time, shook the foundations of Monaco. Now, the emblematic athlete is going through a delicate moment of health and the publication by his wife of some photographs with him on social networks last April has put him back in the media spotlight.
Guillermo Vilas, who appears in these snapshots kissing his wife, Phiangphathu Khumueang, with whom he has had four children, had not been seen for six months. This post has not revealed much information about her current status, since she only appears accompanied by a heart.
Guillermo Vilas was already a very charismatic figure on and off the track and when he met Carolina de Monaco, both were in the splendor of his youth. It all started between them when after winning the Monte Carlo tournament on April 11, 1982 (he beat the Czech Ivan Lendl) and receiving it from Grace Kelly, he met his princess at the Monte Carlo Country Club. Carolina had been divorced since October 1980 from her first husband, Philippe Junot, and the crush arose.
After the tournament, Vilas returned to his apartment in Paris, at 82 rue Foch, in whose neighborhood lived Cristina Onassis, the sadly missing daughter of the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. Princes Rainier and Grace also had a house in the same area. According to various Argentine media, the tennis player sent a box of chocolates and a farewell letter to his girlfriend at the time, Gloria Blondeau, who, apparently, was not going through his best moment.
Grace Kelly's first date and Opposition
Apparently, her first date with Carolina took place on the following April 13 at the Le Mois Chinese restaurant in the Parisian capital and then they went together to the Grimaldi apartment. Later, Vilas continued playing tournaments, but the definitive photo was missing to confirm his brief love story.
They would not be long in coming. On June 9, Carolina de Monaco and Guillermo Vilas met in Los Angeles, where they took a flight to Honolulu. In the capital of Hawaii, they boarded a twin-engine headed for Maui, where they were captured by the shrewd camera of paparazzo Pascal Rostain, who published photos of him in Paris Match.
The photos went around the world. It soon became known that Grace Kelly was opposed to that relationship, which only lasted about five months. The paparazzo never revealed how much he was paid for the photographs, although he did say that he had left many unpublished because, perhaps, they were not as elegant as one would expect.
The disease of tennis player Guillermo Vilas
At 70 years old, Guillermo Vilas lives completely apart from public life and the only thing that is known is that he suffers from a degenerative neurological disease, and some physical deterioration is also appreciated. Winner of 62 individual titles and four grand slams, the Argentine star has also been seen on the sixth birthday of his son Guillermo Junior, again on social networks, along with a message from his wife in which we read "Superman, super dad."
Married since May 21, 2016, they are the parents of four children: Andanin, 18, Landinlao, 12, Intila, 11, and Junior, six. It has been his wife who has taken charge of the Vilas Tennis Academy, which has two venues, in Mallorca and in Punta Cana. The Argentine press continues to pay great attention to this myth of the sport, which has also been the star of the social chronicle. especially in his youth.
The chroniclers of the time in which Vilas had her affair with the eldest of the Grimaldi stated that Diego Armando Maradona was fixated on her, but it does not seem that the princess showed a special interest in him. Forty-one years after that relationship, sentimental, in April 2020, it was when Vilas's health problems came to light and Pelusa dedicated an emotional message to him on social networks:
Dear Willy, we owe you so many joys and emotions. I hope you ALWAYS receive the respect and dignity that we all deserve, through thick and thin. I hope that at this moment, we can all be at your level. A huge hug, legend”, wrote the emblematic player, who passed away shortly after, on November 25, 2020.
This message came just a few hours after the sports newspaper Olé made his difficult situation public: «His state of health is kept under lock and key inside the Monegasque residence, and it only comes out in the form of posts on the Instagram of Phian, the wife of William. But Vilas is not the Vilas of before, the verbose, the poet, the one who drew a rainbow with vowels and consonants.
