Jazmin Grace Grimaldi

Infobox_Person | name = Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
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birth_date = birth date and age|1992|3|4
birth_place = Palm Springs, California, United States
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parents = Albert II of Monaco and Tamara Rotolo Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born on March 4, 1992 in Palm Springs, California, United Statesref|note1. She is the elder of the two known illegitimate children of Albert II, Prince of Monaco. Her mother is Tamara Rotolo, and her grandparents were Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. On June 1, 2006, Prince Albert II admitted that he did in fact father Jazmin with Tamara Rotolo. The Prince noted that he had wanted to protect her identity until she was an adult. Prince Albert's other out-of-wedlock child is Alexandre Coste.

tatements

# Under the Constitution of Monaco, illegitimate descendants cannot be in line for the throne.
# It's been erroneously reported in some media that Jazmin will not use the surname Grimaldi, though this was quickly corrected in subsequent interviews by Prince Albert, whereby the articles and the Prince himself referred to his daughter as Jazmin Grace Grimaldi.
# In his Paris Match (29 June - 5 July) interview which Prince Albert requested from the editor, Prince Albert said: "What matters to me is they are certain of my affection for them"." The Prince also added Jazmin is welcome to study and live in Monaco.

Life today

In February 2006, the French magazine "Voici" published photographs of mother and daughter during a visit to Monaco. The Prince has hired the services of Gavin de Becker to protect her. Jazmin Grace is described to the press as a “mature, sweet and intelligent" girl. At 14 years of age, she graduated from [http://www.stmargarets.org/ St. Margaret’s Episcopal School] in Palm Desert, California, where she has been an honor student.ref|note3 She also was a soloist in a school choir that performed with singer Barry Manilow.ref|note4 In November 2006, Jazmin Grace visited eight islands in Fijiref|note6on a humanitarian mission to help bring the local children assistance in education, medicine, and community development. One of her stops was at a school for the disabled and she donated 30,000 prenatal vitamins to the Savusavu Hospital on the island of Vanua Levu. She has also established a humanitarian fund for the region called [http://www.jazminfund.com Jazmin Fund] .

History

Illegitimate children are nothing new in Monaco — in every generation for the last 100 years a Grimaldi has had an acknowledged illegitimate child. Some of these have obtained succession rights through legitimation or adoption, including Princess Charlotte an illegitimate child who was adopted by her own father, and who then ceded her succession rights to her son Rainier, May 30, 1944. Prince Rainier III made obtaining succession rights in this manner impossible for the illegitimate children of his son Albert by adopting a new constitution in 2002, which limited the succession to direct, legitimate issue.ref|note8

References

# PDF| [http://www.thedesertsun.com/assets/pdf/news/2006/0601birthcertificate.pdf Birth certificate] |778 KiB
# [http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060530.WWW000000427_article_albert.html Albert, à nouveau père ]
# [http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060531/NEWS01/605310317/1006 Palm Desert girl of royal lineage]
# [http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060602/NEWS01/606020331 Jazmin's royal debut]
# [http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060704/NEWS01/607040319/1006 Prince said he wants 'good' relationship with daughter]
# [http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=52049 Jazmin tours islands]
# [http://www.palmspringslife.com/media/Palm-Springs-Life/April-2007/Princess-for-the-People/ Princess for the People]
# [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/monaco.htm#const Constitution of Monaco]

External links

* [http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=J1&Dato=20060601&Kategori=NEWS01&Lopenr=606010801&Ref=PH' Photo Gallery]
* [http://www.theroyalist.net/content/view/1674/1/ The Royalist: The Royal Daughter Untroubled By Titles & Tiaras

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