Florestane
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That's pretty much how I remember it to.Stephanie's two eldest children were not in the Succession as long as Stephanie was not married to their father, Daniel Ducruet. Once Stephanie married Ducruet,Pauline and Louis were in the Succession and they remain so to this day.
Only Camille is not in the Succession and it's not because Rainier was embarrassed by her. It's simply because children born out of wedlock cannot inherit the Throne in Monaco until and unless their parents marry.
Your recollection that Rainier cut ties with his troubled youngest child is simply incorrect. He visited her in California during her exile there with the record producer who I cannot be bothered to remember, and he publicly stated on more than one occasion to be careful about shutting doors on ones' children because once the doors were shut it was difficult to reopen them.
He cut Stephanie's inheritance for the exact reason Florestane posted. He was concerned about her naivete and her judgement,and he didn't want her taken advantage of. Even so, she is still an exceedingly wealthy woman. Neither she nor her children will ever want for anything.
Both Rainier and her brother Albert have seen to that.
Late in his life I remember watching an interview on TV with either Diane Sawyer or Barbara Walters interviewing Rainier. When the interviewer mentioned to Rainier that Stephanie had stated that her father was the only man in her life who had never betrayed her, Rainier teared up.
That pretty much sums up their relationship imo.
I also think Rainier was too worldly a man to be embarrassed by Stephanie's choices - he might sometimes have wished they were different but he accepted them. All three of his sister's children were born before she married their father, his mother was pretty strong-willed...