The Grimaldi family has welcomed a new member, the first child of Louis Ducruet and his wife, Marie Chevallier, who has made Princess Stephanie of Monaco a first-time grandmother. This girl has turned Estefanía, the rebellious princess, into a grandmother at the age of 58 and thus consecrates the new stage of quiet life and away from the spotlight of this daughter of Grace Kelly after decades of love scandals.
The new parents have not yet spoken on social networks, where they have been quite active throughout the pregnancy, sharing, for example, images of their baby gender reveal party. It was her brother, Prince Albert II of Monaco, who communicated the good news about her during an act of the Red Cross from the stage of the Rainier III Auditorium, located in the principality. "My nephew Louis Ducruet and his wife Marie have the joy of being the parents of a girl," the prince announced.
Ducruet and Chevallier said "yes, I do" at a civil wedding that took place on July 26, 2019 at the Monaco City Hall after seven years of relationship, and their religious wedding took place a day later at the Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate, also in Monaco and where Ducruet's grandparents, Rainier III and Grace Kelly, were married 63 years earlier. Three years later, the couple claimed to be immersed in "an adventure that is about to begin", thus they announced this pregnancy.
Louis Ducruet, who is currently 15th in line to the Monegasque throne, and the Franco-Vietnamese Chevallier studied together at the French Skema Business School, and although they already knew each other before, it was during their studies that love arose. among them. He proposed to her in February 2017, in the Vietnamese city of Hoi An. "As we are both shy it took us a while, we looked for each other, everyone noticed, but it took me six months until we took the first step. That's how it all began "Ducruet said when they announced their engagement.
This nephew of Albert II is the son of Princess Stephanie of Monaco and her bodyguard, Daniel Ducruet. Together they had Louis on November 26, 1992 and her second daughter, Pauline Ducruet, on May 4, 1994. The wedding came on July 1, 1995 and with it the inclusion of the children in the succession line. But the couple's happiness was short-lived, because, just a year after the wedding, the scandal of some images of the bodyguard with a Belgian dancer precipitated the divorce.
Estefanía had one more daughter, Camille Marie Kelly Gottlieb, the result of her relationship with Jean Raymond Gottlieb, another family bodyguard. Already a mother of three children, the princess fell in love with the elephant tamer Franco Knie. With her children, still infants, she joined the circus and with it the nomadic life, but that relationship did not last. A few years later, she secretly married the acrobat Adans Peres, ten years her junior and from whom she separated in nine months. Since then she has not known any love relationship.
Estafania's third daughter, Camille, is not in the Monegasque line of succession because her parents were not married, but she is invited to many of Monaco's family events. The one who the Grimaldi do not invite to the celebrations is Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, the daughter that Alberto II had out of wedlock with the American Tamara Rotolo. She settles for orbiting the family on Instagram. And Estefanía does the same with a quiet life, dedicated to charitable causes and residing in Monaco.
