On This Day: Monegasque Princely Family


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An Ard Ri said:
I often wondered if the Duke of Urach ever contested the 1911 succession law?
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I don't believe he did. In 1924 he gave up his succession claims willingly (other adult members of their branch had discussed it as well). He was third in line for the throne behind Louis and Charlotte. The claim then passed to the counts de Chabrillan after Charlotte.

There would be some question with the French-Monaco treaty if he was eligible as it limited it to people of Monaco/French nationality. Wilhelm was born in Monte Carlo, and after his father died when he was four, he and his brother were raised by their mother in Monaco. But he was a Wurttemberg national and spent his adult life in his family estates in Germany (the family own Lichtenstein castle).

There is some evidence one of his sons attempted to. In March 1930 the Chicago Tribune reported that his third son Albrecht was speaking to the French foreign office trying to convince them of his rightful claim as heir. He claimed the adoption of Charlotte could only be legal if all members of the family approved it, and the Urach branch never did.


Wilhelm was married to Duchess Amalie in Bavaria. Amalie was the older half-sister of Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (she was the only child of Karl-Theodor of Bavaria's first marriage to Sophie of Saxony. Elisabeth was one of five children by his second wife Maria Josepha of Portugal).

Wilhelm and his wife had 9 children. Albrecht was their seventh child and third son. His father's title was inherited by his second brother Karl Gero as the eldest brother Wilhelm made a morganatic marriage. Albrecht also made morganatic marriages, so he was ineligible to inherit his family lands. Karl Gero was succeeded by the sons of the 4th brother Eberhard.

The current duke of Urach is Eberhard's second son Wilhelm Albert who succeeded his brother when his brother married a commoner. Eberhard's wife was Princess Iniga of Thurn and Taxis. Iniga was a granddaughter of Albert, 8th prince of Thurn and Taxis making her first cousins with Johannes, the father of the current head of the family Albert and his sisters.


When Wilhelm renounced his claim, the nearest line after Urach was the counts de Chabrillan. They were an even more remote female line of the family then the Urachs. They were descended from a daughter of Prince Joseph of Monaco and Marie Thérèse de Choiseul who was executed during the reign of terror. Joseph was a son of Honore III and younger brother of Honore IV. Honore IV was the great-great grandfather of Louis II.

Respecting Wilhelm's renunciation of succession, the heir after Charlotte would have been Léonor Guigues de Moreton, comte de Chabrillan.

https://translate.google.com/transl.../wiki/Aynard_Guigues_de_Moreton_de_Chabrillan
 
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Countessmeout said:
There would be some question with the French-Monaco treaty if he was eligible as it limited it to people of Monaco/French nationality. Wilhelm was born in Monte Carlo, and after his father died when he was four, he and his brother were raised by their mother in Monaco. But he was a Wurttemberg national and spent his adult life in his family estates in Germany and Lichtenstein (the family own Lichtenstein castle).
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Lichtenstein Castle is in Württemberg on the swabian alps.
 
On this day, September 21, 1869 ~ The wedding of Prince Albert I of Monaco and Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton
 
A photo of the couple said to be shortly after they married

https://iloveroyalfamilies.tumblr.c...y-victoria-douglas-hamilton-also-known-as/amp

Their marriage only lasted 11 years. Though they were separated before.

Her second husband to whom she was married to for 40 years, Prince Taszilo. He was the father of her four youngest children.

https://www.geni.com/photo/view/498...ype=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000025830949884

Albert's second wife American born Alice Heine who he was married to for 13 years before separating. They had no children.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Heine#/media/File:Alice_Heine.jpg



Lady Mary traded in the palace of Monaco for Festetics Palace in Hungary. The Hungarian home would have suited her far more as she never liked the Monaco climate or country. Hungary would have been far more similar to her beloved Scotland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste...e:Keszthely_Festetics_Schloss_Gartenseite.JPG
 
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On this day, October 2, 1841 ~ Demise of Honore V, Prince of Monaco in Paris, France

On this day, October 7, 1737 ~ Birth of Maria Caterina Brignole, Princess of Monaco, wife of Prince Honore III of Monaco
 
On this day October 3, 1990 Stefano Casiraghi, p. Caroline's husband died on a speed
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On this day, November 10, 1697 ~ Birth of Louise Hippolyte, Sovereign Princess of Monaco
 
CyrilVladisla said:
On this day, November 10, 1697 ~ Birth of Louise Hippolyte, Sovereign Princess of Monaco
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Daughter of Antonio I of Monaco and Marie of Lorraine. Though her parents had six kids, they were all girls. She was the 2nd born but her older sister didnt survive childhood. It was agreed with the French king that her husband would take her last name and rule jointly with her.

Her husband Jacques I was Jacques Goyon, Count of Matignon.

While she was welcomed by the Monaco people, her husband was not. When she died of smallpox he was so neglectful of Monaco, preferring to stay in Paris even when she was alive with his mistresses, that he was forced to abdicate. She died in 1731 and he abdicated in favor of their son Honore in 1732.

They had 9 children. Honore (Honore III) was their third child and 2nd son.


Her tomb

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7832551/louise-hippolyte-grimaldi#view-photo=2562525
 
Such a short reign for Princess Louise just a little over 11 months.

20th of January 1731 –29th of December 1731.

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November 12, 1929 birth of Grace Patricia Kelly aka Princess Grace of Monaco.

Grace was born in Philadelphia to a prominent family. Her father John Kelly won three olympic gold medals in sculling and owned a brickwork company. Her mother Margaret Majer Kelly was the first coach for female athletic teams at University of Pennsylvania college for women before she married and had kids. Grace was the third of four children, with two sisters Peggy and Elizabeth and one brother John. Like their father, John Jr was an Olympian sculler, competing in four olympics and winning bronze in one.

Grace's father was one of ten children. His brother Walter was a Vaudeville actor and his brother George was a Pulitzer prize winner for drama.

Grace made her acting debut in television in 1948. Grace would appear in 11 movies before she left Hollywood. Her last was High Society.


She had an earlier brush as a 'princess' in the movie 'The Swan'



Having met Prince Rainier III of Monaco at Cannes in 1955 the couple were married in 1956. The couple had three children, Caroline, Albert and Stephanie. Unfortunately Grace was in a car accident September 13, 1982. She was driving back from Roc Agel with her daughter Stephanie when she suffered a stroke. She died the following day. Due to injuries Stephanie was unable to attend the funeral of her mother.

Her funeral September 18 had 400 mourners including Princess Diana and Empress Farrah of Iran, and a number of Hollywood friends like Cary Grant.


Rainier died in 2005.

She is now the grandmother of 11 (4 from Albert, 4 from Caroline and 3 from Stephanie) and 7 great-grandchildren all from Caroline.
 
On this day, November 13, 1848 ~ Birth of Albert I, Prince of Monaco in Paris, France
 
One of the few orders held by Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois was the Spanish Order of Queen Maria Luisa of which she was a Dame Grand Cross.
 
On this day, November 29, 1604 ~ Demise of Hercule, Lord of Monaco in Monaco
 
CyrilVladisla said:
On this day, November 29, 1604 ~ Demise of Hercule, Lord of Monaco in Monaco
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Commonly referred to by the Italian form instead, Ercole.

Like his grandfather Lucien, he was murdered. He was stabbed to death in a back alley way on his way home from the governor's house. There is some doubt about the reason for his murder.

Mad for Monaco: Lord Hercules I of Monaco

His son Honoree became Prince of Monaco, it raised to a principality that year. Honoree was under the guardianship of his Uncle Frederico Landi who allowed Monaco to be occupied by the Spanish and sent Honoree and his sisters to Milan. It was his alliance with Louis XIII to end Spanish occupation which led to Monaco falling under the French protection. The titles Duke of Valentinois and Marquis of Baux were given bu Louis at this time as Honoree lost his Italian lands when he allied with the French.
 
His wife Maria Landi,Lady of Monaco predeceased him in 1599,they had only been married 4 years.

They had 3 children

  1. Giovanna Maria Grimaldi,Countess di Melzo +1620
  2. Honoré II +1662
  3. Maria Claudia Grimaldi, Carmeline nun in Genoa +1668
 
On this day, December 16, 1522 ~ Birth of Honore I, Lord of Monaco in Monaco
 
CyrilVladisla said:
On this day, December 16, 1522 ~ Birth of Honore I, Lord of Monaco in Monaco
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Honoré I was Lord of Monaco aged just 9 months following the assassination of his father Lucien,Lord of Monaco. He had a long reign 1523–1581,with his uncle Augustine Grimaldi,Bishop of Grasse acting as Regent 1523-1532.
 
December 22, 1925 death of Alice Heine, second wife of Albert I.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Heine#/media/File:Alice_Heine.jpg


Alice was American. Born Marie Alice Heine February 10, 1858 she was born in New Orleans. Her father Michel Heine as a French Jewish banker who owned a bank with his brother Armand. Her mother's parents were French and Creole. She had two younger brothers Paul and Isaac.

Due to the civil war the family left the US and moved back to France. Due to her family's money, they were fixtures at court. Her father's financial business helped to fund Napoleon III's wars in Prussia. Her beauty attracted a greal deal of attention at the court.


Alice was first married to Marie Odet Armand Aimable Chapelle de Jumilhac, Marquis of Jumilhac then 7th Duke of Richelieu and Duke of Aiguillon. She converted to the Catholic faith to marry her first husband. Napoleon III and his wife stood as her godparents.

She had two children with the duke.

-Marie Odet Jean Armand Chapelle de Jumilhac: he was the 8th and final duke. He married American Eleanor Douglas wise but they had no children.

-Odile Marie Auguste Septimanie Chapelle de Jumilhac: She was Countess de La Rochefoucauld and later Princess de La Rochefoucauld-Montbe through her marriage to Gabriel Marie François Hippolyte Ferri Eugène de La Rochefoucauld. They had one daughter Anne who married twice but had no children.


Her first husband died in Athens in 1880.

She married Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889. Alice was 31 and Albert was 41. He had his first marriage to Lady Mary Hamilton annulled in 1880. Lady Mary had moved to Hungary following the end of their marriage, taking their only son Louis with her where she had remarried to Prince Tassilo Festetics de Tolna who she had four children. Albert ascended the throne as Prince of Monaco September 10 of 1889. He and Alice were married October 30.


Alice inherited her father's business sense. She helped put the principality on better financial footing during her time there. She had a passion for the arts and worked to make Monaco a cultural center. She brought the ballet, theater and opera under the direction of Russian Sergei Diaghilev.


The couple were seperated in 1902 but they remained married. When he died 20 years later she was referred to as Dowager Princess of Monaco. She would not remarry again.

She died in Paris. She is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46292851/alice-heine#view-photo=191621970

Her childhood home is now the site of Cafe Amelie in New Orleans.

Photo Gallery | Cafe Amelie
 
December 28, 1920 birth of Princess Antoinette, Baroness de Massey.


Princess Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi was born in Paris. Her mother was Princess Charlotte of Monaco, Duchess of Valentinois. And her father was Count Pierre de Polignac. Antoinette was born during the reign of her great-grandfather Albert I of Monaco. Her grandfather Louis was Albert's only son. Charlotte was Louis' natural daughter with his mistress Marie Julliette Luvette. Her mother became heir to the throne on the death of her grandfather in 1922 and ascension of her own father as Louis II. Her only sibling, Rainier (The future Rainier III) was born a year later in 1923.

Her parents were divorced in 1933 after seperating in 1930. Pierre was reportedly homosexual, and Charlotte had taken lovers of her own.In 1944 her mother would cede her rights to the throne to her son Rainier with the full agreement of her father. Antoinette's brother would become Rainier III in 1949. Their mother moved to Paris where she never remarried but had lovers.

Antoinette was married three times herself.


Her first husband was Alexandre-Athenase Noghès. Alexandre was a Monaco born lawyer and professional tennis player. They started a relationship in the early 1940's but didnt marry until 1951. At that point they already had three children who were legitimized on their marriage. She was made Baroness de Massy by her brother in the same year. Their marriage lasted three years.

their children:

-Elizabeth Anne: Married twice and had a child from each marriage. She was well known in Monaco for her charity work including including president of the Tennis federation. She died in June of this year.

-Christian Louis: Baron de Massy. Her only living child. He is a diplomat currently an economic attache in DC. He has been married and divorced four times. He has a daughter (and 2 grandsons) from his first marriage and two sons from his fourth marriage.

-Christine Alix: died of leukemia in 1989 at 37. She was married twice, the second the year before she died. She had a son with her first husband and has four grandchildren.


Her second marriage was to Dr. Jean-Charles Rey in 1961. He was president of the National council of the Parliament of Monaco. They were married until 1974 when they were divorced.

Her third marriage was to dancer and choreographer John Gilpin. They married July 1983 but he died six weeks after they were married.He died suddenly from a heart attack.

She was president of Monaco's society for the protection of Animals and patron of the UK's Battersea dogs and cats home (Camilla's patronage where she adopted her dogs from).She was also president of the tennis federation and the Monte Carlo country club.

She died March 18, 2011 at the age of 90 and her funeral was held March 24. She was buried at the Chapel of Peace in Monaco. She is buried next to her parents, her 2 daughters, her third husband and Stefano.

 
On this day, December 29, 1983 ~ Wedding of Princess Caroline and Stefano Casiraghi at the Prince's Palace in Monaco
 
January 23, 1999 wedding of Princess Caroline and Ernst August of Hannover.

The wedding took place on the bride's 42nd birthday. The groom was 45. It was a third marriage for Caroline and second for Ernst.


Caroline was at the time four months pregnant with the couple's only child. Their daughter Princess Alexandra of Hannover was born July 20, 1999. Ernst had two sons from his first wife Chantal, Christian who was 13 and Ernst August who was 15 at the time of the wedding. Caroline had three children from her second marriage (age at the time of marriage) Andrea 14, Charlotte 12 and Pierre 11.

The bride wore a simple grey suit for their civil wedding in Monaco.


https://juliapgelardi.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/caroline-ernst-wedding.jpg


The couple have been seperated since 2009 but remain married.
 
On this day, January 25, 1661 ~ Birth of Prince Antoine I of Monaco in Paris, France
 
Still about P. Caroline's birthday i found these nice links on Youyube...


 
On this day, February 20, 1731 ~ Demise of Prince Antoine I of Monaco in Monaco
 
Antonio I, Prince of Monaco was sovereign for over 30 years and fought during the Nine Years War under King Louis XIV of France.

He was succeeded by his daughter Princess Louise Hippolyte who's reign only lasted a little over 10 months.
 
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