Marie of Lorraine was born on 12 August 1674 as the daughter of Louis de Lorraine, Count d’Armagnac and Catherine de Neufville. Her marriage to the future Antonio I, Prince of Monaco was quite surprising, considering her meagre dowry. Marie was described as “high-spirited, with a love for balls and fêtes, an unusual flair, a scandalously low neckline, lively [read more]
Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was born in 1639 as the daughter of Marshal Antoine de Gramont and Françoise Marguerite du Plessis, a niece of Cardinal Richelieu. In 1660, she married Louis I of Monaco. She was three years older than him, and rumours went around that she was still unmarried because she had been in love [read more]
Charlotte wasn’t born a Princess and at the time of her birth nobody probably even imagined the role she would go on to play. She was born as Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet on 30 September 1898 as the illegitimate daughter of Marie Juliette Louvet, a cabaret singer and Louis Grimaldi, who was at the time [read more]
Ippolita Trivulzio was born around 1600 as the daughter of Carlo Emanuele Teodoro Trivulzio, Count of Melzo and his wife, Caterina Gonzaga. She married Honoré II, Prince of Monaco on 13 February 1616 and was the first consort to bear the title of Princess. At the time of her marriage, she was described as “demure, [read more]
Louise d’Aumont was born on 22 October 1759 in Paris, France as the only child and daughter of Louis Marie d’Aumont, Duke of Aumont, and his wife, Louise Jeanne de Durfort, Duchess of Mazarin et de La Meilleraye, in her own right. Through her mother, she was the heiress of the considerable fortune of Cardinal Mazarin, [read more]
Princess Grace of Monaco’s childhood home will be reopening to the public in the near future. Her son, Prince Albert II of Monaco, who purchased his late mother’s home in Philadelphia last year spoke to People Magazine about the property. The property isn’t set to become “exclusively a museum.” Prince Albert plans to hold “different [read more]
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