Charlotte of Monaco

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Charlotte of Monaco

Charlotte of Monaco ( Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi (nee Louvet), Hereditary Princess of Monaco, Duchesse de Valentinois ) (born September 30, 1898 in Constantine , Algeria , † November 16, 1977 in Paris ) was Hereditary Princess of Monaco and the mother of the Prince Rainier III. from Monaco .

Life

She was the illegitimate daughter of the future Prince Louis II of Monaco (1870-1949) and the French variety dancer Marie-Juliette Louvet (1867-1930), who was later issued as an Algerian laundress , who was legitimized in 1919 . If Louis had not already recognized his natural daughter Charlotte Louvet as the Hereditary Prince and determined to be hereditary, after his death the Principality of Monaco would have passed to a related German duke from the Urach branch of the House of Württemberg , Duke Wilhelm Karl von Urach , son of Princess Florestine of Monaco , like. On May 16, 1919 in Paris she received the title of a princely Monaco awardDuchesse de Valentinois.

Her husband was Pierre Grimaldi, Duc de Valentinois (formerly Pierre Comte de Polignac from the house of the Ducs de Polignac ), whom she married in Monaco on March 19, 1920. One day before the wedding, he had adopted the name and coat of arms of the Grimaldis by princely Monegasque decree and received the title of Duc de Valentinois in Primogenitur .

The marriage, which was divorced in Monaco on February 18, 1933 , came from Princess Antoinette of Monaco, born in Paris in 1920 , Baronesse de Massy and the future Prince Rainier, born in Monaco in 1923 .

After the death of Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1922, the first-born son Wilhelm Karl von Urach announced his claim to the throne of the Principality of Monaco to Princess Florestine of Monaco , stating that his mother had not waived her right of inheritance when she married . But France, as the protective power of Monaco, insisted that Monegasque law did not (in principle) exclude female succession. (The earlier regulation that Monaco would have reverted to France if there had been no heir to the throne of the Grimaldis was only abolished in the second Monegasque-French agreement in 2002.) In order to make the successor claims of the Duke of Urach ineffective, the legitimate Princess Charlotte already renounced In 1944, a few years before the death of her father Louis II , in favor of her son Rainier to the throne , in order to install him as hereditary prince during the reign of his grandfather. After Prince Louis II had transferred the business of government to his grandson Rainier on May 5, 1949, shortly before his death, the latter followed him a few days later as Rainier III. in rule over the principality after.

A prisoner , René Girier (1919-2000) , who was over twenty years his junior and who had been convicted of a jewel thief , became the lover of the divorced, now Princess Mother Charlotte of Monaco.

Worth mentioning

After she was Charlotte Casiraghi , the elder daughter of Caroline of Monaco , named.

progeny

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c WDR online on September 30, 2013, September 30, 1898 - Birthday of Charlotte of Monaco: The most beautiful of all Grimaldis (accessed on December 14, 2014)
  2. ^ GHdA , Princely Houses, Volume XV, Limburg an der Lahn 1997, p. 70.
  3. ^ GHdA , Adelslexikon, Volume IX, Limburg an der Lahn 1998, p. 147.
  4. ↑ La Constitution de la Principauté (The Constitution of the Principality). Principality of Monaco. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Charlotte of Monaco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grimaldi, Charlotte Louise Juliette Hereditary Prince of Monaco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Monegasque noblewoman, mother of Prince Rainier III of Monaco
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantine , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1977
Place of death Paris