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Meet Prince Albert of Monaco's 4 children from 3 different mothers

Aug 5, 2023, 01:03 IST
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Prince Albert of Monaco has four children with three different women.Gisela Schober/Getty Images; Foc Kan/FilmMagic/Getty Images; Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
  • Prince Albert of Monaco has four children with three different women.
  • Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste were born before he married Princess Charlene.
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The royal family of Monaco is headed by Prince Albert II and his wife of twelve years, Princess Charlene.

They share two children: Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, who are first and second in line to the throne. However, Albert also has two children from two previous relationships with women that he never married.

Here's a look at the royal's immediate family.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, 31, is Prince Albert's eldest daughter, but she has no claim to the throne of Monaco

Prince Albert II of Monaco and his daughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi watch the Monte-Carlo ATP Masters Series Tournament on April 19, 2018, in Monaco.YANN COATSALIOU/AFP/Getty Images

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born in California on March 4, 1992, and grew up in the United States.

Her mother, Tamara Rotolo, came from a working-class background and reportedly worked as a waitress before she met Albert.

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The Los Angeles Times, which cited European press releases at the time Grimaldi was revealed to be Albert's daughter, reported that her parents met while Rotolo was vacationing in the Cote d'Azur region of France, near Monaco.

The Los Angeles Times reported in 2006 that Rotolo filed a lawsuit in 1992, the same year Grimaldi was born, alleging that Albert had fathered her daughter and that she was seeking child support from the royal. However, a Riverside County Superior Court judge dismissed it on jurisdictional grounds.

In 2001, Rotolo filed a malpractice suit in Los Angeles against her attorney, claiming they had not advised her to file a paternity suit in Monaco before 1994 in order to maintain her legal rights. Grimaldi met her father for the first time in 2004 when she was 11 years old.

Grimaldi's parentage was finally publicly confirmed in 2006.

The 31-year-old, whose middle name comes from her paternal grandmother Grace Kelly, has worked for several years as a professional actress and has appeared in critically acclaimed shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

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Grimaldi and her father now appear to share a close relationship, and she has been photographed alongside him and his family multiple times.

Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste, 19, is Prince Albert's second-eldest child

Nicole Coste Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste in 2021.Foc Kan/FilmMagic/Getty Images

Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste was born on August 24, 2003, and is the son of Prince Albert and Nicole Coste. Albert and Coste met while she was working as an Air France flight attendant. The pair dated for five years, but called it quits roughly two years before he wed Princess Charlene.

According to Tatler, news of Alexandre's parentage was made public two months after Albert took the throne after the passing of his father, Prince Rainier.

In a 2005 interview with Paris-Match, Coste claimed that her 2-year-old son was Albert's and that he was supporting them with an unofficial allowance and allowing them to live in his Parisian apartment, according to the New York Times.

"I'm not a gold digger," she told Paris-Match. "I wish simply that he would assume some of his responsibilities."

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On July 6, 2005, days before he was officially crowned the ruler of Monaco, Prince Albert confirmed that Alexandre was his son.

It appears now that Albert and his son, who is working as a model, share a close relationship.

In a 2021 interview with Paris-Match, Coste spoke about her son's relationship with his father and his other three children warmly.

"I always make sure that they spend pleasant and fraternal moments together," she said of Alexandre's relationship with his older half-sister. "As for Jacques and Gabriella, they are still small; Alexander happily plays with them when he sees them."

Prince Albert and Princess Charlene share twins Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella, who are first and second in line to the throne

Princess Charlene of Monaco and Prince Albert II of Monaco with children Prince Jacques of Monaco and Princess Gabriella of Monaco in 2019.Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Corbis/Getty Images

Prince Albert is the son of Prince Rainier III and the actress Grace Kelly, who died in a car accident in 1982.

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Prince Albert and Princess Charlene's nuptials in 2011 were one of the most lavish and expensive royal weddings ever. According to Insider, their three-day wedding in 2011 cost an estimated $70 million, with celebrity guests like Karl Lagerfeld and Naomi Campbell in attendance.

Prince Jacques and Princess Gabriella were born on December 10, 2014.

Jacques, who is next in line to the throne, is actually a few minutes younger than his twin sister Gabriella.

However, under the constitution of Monaco, the throne passes down with preference to male heirs. It is only if a female heir has no eligible brothers or brothers with surviving male descendants that she will take the throne.

The twins have been photographed with both of their older siblings over the years.

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"I can't wait to be a sister to them and watch them grow up," Jazmin Grace Grimaldi told Harper's Bazaar in 2015. "They have these beautiful, big blue eyes – and they are both already so well-behaved!"

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