For over seven hundred years, albeit with a few interruptions, the House of Grimaldi has ruled Monaco. A constitutional monarchy, it is currently headed by Albert II, Prince of Monaco. The succession in Monaco is male-preference primogeniture. Although Albert II is the middle child of Prince Rainier III and Grace, Princess of Monaco, he is the only male child, so he became heir apparent at…
It is not often that a royal represents a republic. But Hungary’s new ambassador to Monaco is actually a prince.
The Hungarian Ambassador to France, His Imperial Highness Georg of Habsburg-Lorraine, Archduke of Austria and Hungary, has also just been appointed to be…
Royal weddings bring all kinds of expectations and among them is one filled with sparkle and glitter. For we all assume a royal bride will arrive for her marriage wearing a tiara. When the wedding will result in them becoming a consort or consort in waiting, the expectation…
Princess Charlene's style nod to the Tour de France as she marks its return
1st September 2020
Princess Charlene of Monaco adopted the famous yellow of the Tour de France as she helped get the famous cycling contest under way in Nice this weekend.
Charlene, alongside her husband Prince Albert II, travelled to the French city for the first stage of the race which is finally taking place after being put on hold earlier this summer because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Sovereign Prince of Monaco has been diagnosed with coronavirus. In a short statement, the Prince’s Palace in Monaco said Albert II had tested positive for Covid-19 but his health wasn’t giving cause for undue concern.
The diagnosis comes just days after…
The Prince’s Palace in Monaco was filled with the tune of ‘Amazing Grace’ as celebrations took place on a very special date in the country’s calendar. Events for National Day in Monaco included a musical marking of the 90th anniversary of the birth of…
While some links between royal houses are well known and rather close, others are a little more distant and perhaps all the more interesting for that. Royal Central’s summer series looking at royal relations across Europe turns today to Monaco and the United Kingdom. And although the links between Albert II and Elizabeth II might be stretched, they are still there.
The connection between…
Charlotte Casiraghi has married her partner, Dimitri Rassam, at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco. The eldest granddaughter of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace wed in a civil ceremony on June 1st 2019.
And the bride appears to have taken inspiration from her famous…
There are thousands of images of royalty but some regal pictures stand out. They capture a moment in time that has its own resonance and which lasts beyond the day on which it was taken. In this occasional series, Royal Central takes a look back at some of the best known…
