Charlene, Kate Middleton, and the gorgeous Grace Kello were Anglo-Saxon in origin. Charlene was raised Presbyterian, but recently converted to Roman Catholicism to marry Albert.
Albert is half Irish-American. The Kelly’s of Philadelphia are a prominent Irish family. Bother Jack Kelly was an all American. The Kelly side is very pronounced in Albert & his sisters.
Charlene bears a resemblance to Grace, which she cultivates, but is not the breathtaking beauty that she was. She was an American treasure. A very beautiful woman, and an excellent actress.
From the bits I’ve read in your recent threads about this wedding (and I thank you for that!) I feel a certain sympathy or empathy for this young woman. Both Grace Kelly and Kate Middleton were raised in monied families that could send them to the ‘best’ schools, provide the proper trappings, etc. to deal with the “High Society” (h/t to GK) that is ahead now for working class Charlene.
At the first holiday dinner I hosted as a new bride, my sainted mother in law seemed somewhat aghast that I hadn’t set out a pickle fork! “Honey, don’t you have a pickle fork?” Pickle fork? WTF is a pickle fork? God bless him, my brother in law piped in and said “WE have pickle forks! ALL our forks are pickle forks!” and got me out of THAT pickle. Grrrr, I know. That WAS bad.