Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Prince Albert is the only son and second child of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and his wife, the former American film star Grace Kelly. Prince Albert is the current Hereditary Prince of Monaco and Marquis des Baux.

Though there is a history of princes of Monaco abdicating, and Prince Rainier has spoken of doing so, an abdication is not expected to take place unless and until Prince Albert has married. His elder sister, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Princess of Hanover, presently is second in line to the throne.

Prince Albert is a 1981 graduate of Amherst College and member of Chi Psi fraternity. He competed in the Bobsled at the 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, and 2002 Winter Olympics.

On October 25, 2002, Prince Albert visited Miami, Florida for a World Olympians Association fund-raiser at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. The group's mission is to have the 100,000 or so Olympians around the world get involved with their communities and talk to young athletes about dedication and training. During his stay, he visited Dr. Michael M. Krop High School, where about 50 students got to quiz the prince.

The fact that Prince Albert has never married and fathered a child has become a matter of concern for the Monegasque throne. On April 2, 2002, Monaco passed Princely Law 1.249 which provides that if Prince Albert assumes the throne and then dies without a legitimate direct heir, the throne would pass to his siblings and their descendants under the rule of male-preference primogeniture. Before this change, the crown of Monaco could only pass to a direct descendant of the reigning prince making Albert's sisters ineligible to inherit the throne upon his ascension.