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Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born on March 4, 1992 in Palm Springs, Riverside County, California, United States. She is the elder of the two known illegitimate children of Prince Albert II of Monaco. Her mother is Tamara Rotolo, and her paternal 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.

Statements

1. Under the Constitution of Monaco, illegitimate descendants cannot be in line for the throne.
2. 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.
3. 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 St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in Palm Springs, California, She now attends JSerra High School in Orange County, California, where she has been an honor student.^[1] She also was a soloist in a school choir that performed with singer Barry Manilow.^[2]

In November 2006, Jazmin Grace visited eight islands in Fiji^[3]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.

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.^[4]

Ancestry

References

1. ^  Albert, à nouveau père
2. ^  Palm Desert girl of royal lineage
3. ^  Jazmin's royal debut
4. ^  Jazmin Fund
5. ^  Jazmin tours islands
6. ^  [5]
7. ^  Albert Of Monaco Says A 14-Year-Old California Girl Is His Daughter
8. ^  Constitution of Monaco

External links

• Photo Gallery
• "Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, cover girl", Palm Springs Life, 8 June 2006, describes Jazmin Grimaldi making the cover of Paris Match upon the revelation that she was Prince Albert's daughter