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Old 09-01-2006, 04:44 PM
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Actually..I think she was born illegitmate...but when they married..it legitmized her birth. The same thing happen when Stephanie married Daniel Drucet (her children were legitimized) and it would happen to Camile, if Stephanie married her father.

The following is from wikipedia (and yes, I recognize that some of the information from Wikipedia is inaccurate....but not this).

Born Charlotte Louvet in Constantine, Algeria, she was the illegitimate daughter of Marie Juliette Louvet, a cabaret singer, and Prince Louis II. On the death of Prince Louis II, theretofore without a legitimate heir, the throne of Monaco was due to pass to the German Duke of Urach, Louis II's cousin, a son of Princess Florestine of Monaco; to forestall this event, on 15 May 1911 a law was passed recognizing Charlotte as Louis's daughter, and making her a member of the sovereign family. Though it was later held to be invalid under the 1882 statutes, an Ordinance of 30 October 1918 allowed her to be adopted. Louis adopted Charlotte in Paris on 16 May 1919, bestowing on her the surname Grimaldi and the title Duchess of Valentinois; she was thus his heir apparent as Hereditary Princess from 1922 until 30 May 1944
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