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FAMILY TRAGEDY
Eight years after Charlotte's grandmother, American actress-turned-Monegasque royal Princess Grace, died in car crash, the Grimaldi family once again suffered a tragic loss.
In 1990, Stefano – dad to six-year-old Andrea, four-year-old Charlotte and Pierre, three – was killed in a speedboat accident during a world championship trial race off the coast of Monaco. Handsome and charismatic, Stefano, the 30-year-old son of a wealthy Italian industrialist, had begun racing in 1984, winning the world title just five years later.
After her husband's death, his widow Caroline settled, along with her children, in the French village of Saint Remy de Provence. "For personal reasons she wanted to move away from the gossip and hoopla of Monaco," said her brother Prince Albert in 1997. "But she's here (in Monaco) whenever she's needed."
Any promise of a family fairy tale came to an end with Stefano's death in 1990
The loss came just eight years after Charlotte's grandmother, Princess Grace, was killed in a car crash
FAMILY TRAGEDY
Eight years after Charlotte's grandmother, American actress-turned-Monegasque royal Princess Grace, died in car crash, the Grimaldi family once again suffered a tragic loss.
In 1990, Stefano – dad to six-year-old Andrea, four-year-old Charlotte and Pierre, three – was killed in a speedboat accident during a world championship trial race off the coast of Monaco. Handsome and charismatic, Stefano, the 30-year-old son of a wealthy Italian industrialist, had begun racing in 1984, winning the world title just five years later.
After her husband's death, his widow Caroline settled, along with her children, in the French village of Saint Remy de Provence. "For personal reasons she wanted to move away from the gossip and hoopla of Monaco," said her brother Prince Albert in 1997. "But she's here (in Monaco) whenever she's needed."
Any promise of a family fairy tale came to an end with Stefano's death in 1990
The loss came just eight years after Charlotte's grandmother, Princess Grace, was killed in a car crash