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Louis II Grimaldi
(1870-1949)
Marie Juliette Louvet
(1867-1930)
Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac
(1895-1964)
Charlotte Grimaldi
(1898-1977)
Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi
(1920-)

 

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Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne Grimaldi 1 2

  • Born: 28 Dec 1920, Paris, France

  General Notes:

She is the elder sister of Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

Three children were born to Princess Antoinette and her lover Alexandre-Athanase Noghès, heir to a cigarette fortune: Elisabeth-Anne, Christian Louis, and Christine Alix. The parents subsequently married in 1951. Their children bear the title "Baron/Baroness de Massy". The couple divorced in 1954.

Her second husband, Jean-Charles Rey was married to her from 1961 to 1973.

Her third husband was John Gilpin, a noted British ballet dancer, whom she married in 1983 and who died two months later.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She was a Baroness de Massy.

• She was a Princess of Monaco.


Sources


1 Darryl Lundy, thePeerage.com (http://www.thepeerage.com/).

2 Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/).

Updated 14 June 2008. Contact: Ken Nygaard    My Home Page