Jazmin Grace Grimaldi

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi
Born (1992-03-04) 4 March 1992
Palm Springs, California, U.S.
Parent(s) Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Tamara Rotolo
Relatives Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste (paternal half-brother)
Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès (paternal half-sister)
Jacques, Hereditary Prince of Monaco (paternal half-brother)

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi (born 4 March 1992) is the daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Tamara Rotolo, and the elder of the Prince's two known illegitimate children.

Prince Albert II publicly confirmed Grimaldi's paternity on 1 June 2006, noting that he had wanted to protect her identity until she was an adult. Grimaldi is the older half-sister of Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste and of Prince Albert's two legitimate children, Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès, and Jacques, Hereditary Prince of Monaco.

Status

Out-of-wedlock children are not in the line of succession to the Monegasque throne according to Article 10 of the Constitution of Monaco, which specifies that only "direct and legitimate" descendants of Monaco's monarch (or of the monarch's siblings) may inherit the throne.[1] Because her mother's divorce proceedings were not finalized by the time of Grimaldi's birth, Grimaldi is legally the product of adultery and cannot be legitimated through the subsequent marriage of her biological parents.

On 26 October 2006, Albert II gave an interview to US television personality Larry King. Albert said his children are not in line for the Monegasque throne but that they would be taken care of financially. They are also heirs to Prince Albert's personal fortune, estimated at more than one billion dollars.

Education

Life today

In February 2006, the French magazine Voici published photographs of Grimaldi and her mother during a visit to Monaco. The Prince has hired the security services of Gavin de Becker and Associates.[2]

Grimaldi is described by the press as a "mature, sweet and intelligent" girl.[3] At the age of 14, she graduated from St. Margaret's Episcopal School in Palm Desert, California, and entered JSerra High School in Orange County, California.

In June 2010, Grimaldi graduated JSerra Catholic High School where she was a honor student and a soloist in a school choir that performed with singer Barry Manilow.[4]

Upon graduation, she received The JSerra Senior Faculty Award and the Fine Arts Award. She was also selected to be a lifetime member of The California Scholarship Federation, and has been since she was a sophomore, entitling her to the distinction of Sealbearer.

Grimaldi attend Fordham University and graduated in 2014.[5]

On 22 October 2012, Grimaldi attended the 30th Anniversary of the Princess Grace Awards in New York City with her father and stepmother, Princess Charlene. In an article published in Hello magazine about the event, the Prince is described as protective of his daughter, who is said to admire and respect her father.

Grimaldi's first published interview, in 2015 with Harpers Bazaar was conducted at the Princely Palace in Monte Carlo. Grimaldi talked about her grandmother Princess Grace, her father, her siblings and life in Monaco[6]

On March 14, 2018, she traveled to Monaco to celebrate her father, Prince Albert's 60th birthday[7] days before final preparations for 28th Rallye Aicha des Gazelles du Maroc[8] in Morocco[9], as did the daughter of Princess Stephanie, Pauline Ducruet.[10] Grimaldi took 3rd Place in her class (e-class), for the all-women's event.[11]

On April 11, 2018, Rallye des Gazelles[12] tweeted a photo of Grimaldi with her father, Prince Albert II, and the caption: The Rallye Aisha des Gazelles of Morocco will be present from 10 to 12 April on the show EVER in Monaco.[13]

On April 19, 2018, Monaco's Prince Albert II is joined by his daughter Jazmin Grace in the Royal Box at the Monte-Carlo Masters.[14]

Now she is embarking on a career as a singer and actress.[15] She announced that she will released her first single soon.[16][17]

Her father's foundation, the Prince Albert of Monaco Foundation, is listed as one of her sponsors in addition to fashion brands Alice + Olivia, Philipp Plein, Tory Sport and Tory Burch Foundation.[18]

Charity Work

In November 2006, Grimaldi visited eight islands in Fiji[19] on 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 Jazmin Fund.

Grimaldi said in an interview with Tory Daily that she was inspired to start The Jazmin Fund because "From an early age, I’ve been passionate about volunteering and getting involved in local outreach programs, and always wanted to start my own initiative."[20] She said that her best experiences in Fiji was "dancing and singing with the kids of Fiji and seeing the excitement on their faces as we introduced their picture to them — through a camera — for the first time!" And she said that her proudest moment was being able to raise awareness and provide many items off of the villages’ wish list.[21]

Grimaldi is an advocate for women’s empowerment and is part of American fashion designer Tory Burch’s campaign Embrace Ambition, which is aimed at providing funds, education and resources to female entrepreneurs.[22]

History

Illegitimate children are nothing new in the Princely family of Monaco — in every generation for the last 100 years a Grimaldi has had an acknowledged illegitimate child.[23] Some of these have obtained succession rights through legitimization or adoption, including Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, an illegitimate child who was adopted by her own father, and who then ceded her succession rights to her son Rainier on May 30, 1944.[24] Prince Rainier III made obtaining succession rights in this manner impossible for the illegitimate children of his son Albert by a 2002 modification to the constitution which limited, henceforth, the succession to direct, legitimate issue.[25]

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Gouvernement Princier: Principauté de Monaco. La Constitution de la Principauté: Titre II. Le Prince, La Dévolution de La Couronne. (French), accessed 21 November 2016.
  2. ↑ Wilson, Jeff (2 June 2006). "Monaco prince's daughter returns to school without the reporters". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 25 August 2018. Finally, at the end of the school day, a ponytailed blond girl in a school uniform was escorted to an armored Lincoln Navigator registered to Los Angeles security expert Gavin de Becker's firm.
  3. ↑ Monaco royal wedding: No bridesmaid or page boy role for Albert's children, HELLO! Magazine. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  4. ↑ Wilson, Jeff. Monaco prince's daughter returns to school without the reporters, San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2, 2006. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  5. ↑ Knight, Kathryn. A VERY uneasy wedding kiss and the dark rumours that haunt Monaco's 'bolting bride', Daily Mail, July 1, 2011. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Romy Oltuski. EXCLUSIVE: Grace Kelly's Granddaughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi Opens Up!. Harper's Bazaar. 21 July 2015. Accessed 6 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Jazmin Grace Grimaldi travels to Monaco for Prince Albert's birthday and final preparations for Morocco race". Hello!.
  8. ↑ "Rallye Aicha des Gazelles du Maroc". Rallye Aicha des Gazelles.
  9. ↑ "Jazmin Grace, reine du rallye Aïcha des gazelles". Paris Match (in French).
  10. ↑ "Princess Grace's granddaughters Jazmin Grimaldi and Pauline Ducruet are bringing girl power to the Moroccan desert".
  11. ↑ "PAULINE DUCRUET Y JAZMIN GRACE GRIMALDI, DOS AVENTURERAS EN EL DESIERTO DE MARRUECOS". Hola! (in Spanish).
  12. ↑ "Rallye Aicha des Gazelles du Maroc". Rallye Aicha des Gazelles du Maroc Official Twitter.
  13. ↑ "Le Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles du Maroc sera présent du 10 au 12 Avril sur le salon EVER à Monaco. #PrinceAlbert #electrique #Monaco #JazminGrimaldi". Rallye Aicha des Gazelles du Maroc Official Twitter.
  14. ↑ "Getting along famously! Monaco's Prince Albert II is joined by his daughter Jazmin in Royal Box at the Monte-Carlo Masters". Daily Mail.
  15. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Grace Kelly's Granddaughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi Opens Up!". Harpers Bazaar.
  16. ↑ "Jazmin Grace Grimaldi on Instagram: "We are FEARLESS!..."". Instagram. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 7 July 2018. ... I am happy to announce that the release of my first single is coming soon!!...
  17. ↑ "Five things to know about Jazmin Grace Grimaldi". channel24.
  18. ↑ "Jazmin Grace Grimaldi went to school in Palm Desert when Prince Albert was revealed as her dad. Now she's racing across Sahara for charity". The Desert Sun.
  19. ↑ Princess Jazmin tours islands, The Fiji Times, November 21, 2006. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  20. ↑ "#EmbraceAmbition: Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles". Tory Daily.
  21. ↑ "#EmbraceAmbition: Jazmin Grace Grimaldi and Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles". Tory Daily.
  22. ↑ "Five things to know about Jazmin Grace Grimaldi". channel24.
  23. ↑ de Badts de Cugnac, Chantal. Coutant de Saisseval, Guy. Nouvelle Imprimerie Laballery. Paris. 2002. pp. 696, 698-700, 703. (French) ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
  24. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XIX. "Monaco". C.A. Starke Verlag, 2011, pp. 58-60. (German). ISBN 978-3-7980-0849-6.
  25. ↑ Wilson, Jeff. A 'Princess Diaries' Moment for Albert's Daughter, The Washington Post, June 5, 2006. Accessed December 10, 2014.
  26. ↑ Wilson, Jeff (2 June 2006). "Monaco prince's daughter returns to school without the reporters". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 25 August 2018. Tamara Rotolo's father, 75-year-old retired auto worker Sam Rotolo of Fremont, said it was no secret to the family who Jazmin's father was. He said Albert provided financial support over the years.
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