Beatrice Borromeo at a Disinformation Panel in Strasbourg Instead of a Ball in Monaco: Caroline's Daughter-in-Law Back Among Journalists for a Day

Instead of the Rose Ball and Monaco's National Day, this time a conference hall in Strasbourg. Beatrice Borromeo Casiraghi, Princess Caroline's daughter-in-law, moderated the opening panel of the conference "Youth against disinformation: why do journalists matter?", organised by the Council of Europe as part of the Journalists Matter campaign.

The choice of moderator was no accident. The conference is part of an initiative by the Council of Europe and Monaco, which currently chairs the institution's Committee of Ministers. Among the participants was the Principality's foreign minister, Isabelle Berro-Amadeï, who chairs the committee. Borromeo did not come as an official representative of the Grimaldi family, but the stage was Monegasque all the same.

Before she joined the princely family, almost a decade ago, the 41-year-old Italian had a real journalism career. She graduated in law and economics from Bocconi University in Milan, earned a master's in international politics at Columbia University's journalism school in New York, and started out in television, on RAI 2's Annozero. She also worked in radio and print and is one of the founders of the daily Il Fatto Quotidiano.

She then moved on to documentaries. Her Mamma Mafia, co-produced with Newsweek, later became a series on Amazon Prime Video, and The King Who Never Was came out on Netflix. She also has her own production company, Astrea Films.

She met Pierre Casiraghi in 2008, while studying in Milan. They married in a civil ceremony on 25 July 2015 at the Prince's Palace in Monaco, with the church wedding a week later on the Borromean Islands on Lake Maggiore, her family's property. They have three children: Stefano, Francesco and Bianca, who turned one in October.

A message about the importance of journalists from a woman who actually did the job is worth more than most speeches on the subject. But the question behind every such conference remains: will the microphone in Strasbourg also go to the journalists who chase disinformation every day, with no title and no palace behind them?