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Charlotte Of VALENTINOIS, 18981977 (aged 79 years)

Name
Charlotte Of /VALENTINOIS/
Surname
VALENTINOIS
Given names
Charlotte Of
Family with parents
father
18701949
Birth: 12 July 1870 21 19 Baden, Germany
Death: 9 May 1949Monaco
mother
18671930
Birth: 9 May 1867 37 Constantine, Algeria, North Africa
Death: 24 September 1930
herself
18981977
Birth: 30 September 1898 28 31 Constantine, Algeria, North Africa
Death: 16 November 1977Paris, Seine, France
Family with Pierre Marie Xavier DE POLIGNAC
husband
18951964
Birth: 24 October 1895Constantine, Algeria, North Africa
Death: 10 November 1964
herself
18981977
Birth: 30 September 1898 28 31 Constantine, Algeria, North Africa
Death: 16 November 1977Paris, Seine, France
daughter
Princess Antoinette Louise Grimaldi of MONACO
son
19232005
Birth: 31 May 1923 27 24 Monaco
Death: 6 April 2005Monaco
Birth
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a paternal grandmother
Death of a paternal grandfather
Birth of a son
Death of a mother
Death of a father
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Death
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Ancestral file number
Unique identifier
9F524A6CC98AA74A9BB4659A0D4353FBD782
Last change
1 April 200500:00:00
Note

Princess Charlotte of Monaco

Charlotte Grimaldi (September 30, 1898 - November 15, 1977) was a Princess of Monaco.

Born Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet in Constantine, Algeria, she was the illegitimate daughter of Marie Juliette Louvet (1867 - 1930), and Prince Louis II of Monaco (1870 - 1949).

Charlotte's mother was married to, in 1885, Achille Delmaet, 1860-1914, a photographer. Later divorced, they had two children: Georges, 1884-1955, and Marguerite, 1886-1894. At some point, Louvet moved to Algeria, where she worked as a cabaret singer or a laundress (sources differ) and met the heir to the Monegasque throne. Though it is sometimes alleged that a marriage between the two occurred, Charlotte, born in 1898, was declared an illegitimate child. Though he took full responsibility for his daughter's upbringing, eventually Prince Louis left Juliette to return to his duties in Monaco.

A political crisis loomed for the Prince because, without any other heir, the throne of Monaco would pass to the duke of Urach, a German prince, related through Prince Albert's aunt, Florestine.

To ensure this did not happen, on November 15, 1911 a law was passed recognizing Charlotte as Louis's daughter, and making her part of the sovereign family. This law was later held to be invalid under the 1882 statutes. Thus another law was passed in 1918 modifying the statutes to allow the adoption of an heir, with succession rights. Charlotte was adopted by Louis in 1919, and became Charlotte Louise Juliette Grimaldi, Hereditary Princess of Monaco, and Duchess of Valentinois.

Rainier-Charlotte-Antoinette
A year after being recognized as princess, Charlotte's marriage was arranged to Count Pierre de Polignac (1895 - 1964) of Guidel, Morbihan, Brittany, France who, by ordinance of Louis II, took the Grimaldi name and received the title of Prince of Monaco. They would have two children: