Their son, Prince Albert of Monaco, is the principality’s current ruler.
Kelly’s untimely death due to a car crash in 1982 hit him hard.
“It also takes years to really fully come to terms with that.”
While he was undoubtedly loved by his parents, their royal duties kept them busy.
“When we were little, we were probably closer to our nanny than to our parents.”
He also attended university in the U.S., graduating from Amherst College in 1981.
The political science major threw himself into college life, playing sports and even singing in a glee club.
My mother was American, which gave me a different kind of opening and experience."
PerTatler, he first met his bride, Olympian Charlene Wittstock, in 2000.
The couple wasn’t officially linked until 2006, when they first appeared in public as a couple.
After a lengthy courtship, they announced their engagement in 2010.
And fine with Charlene, too," he said (via People).
Gabriella and Jacques aren’t Albert’s only children, though.
Another relationship brought him a son,Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste, in 2003.
“Except with heavy scheduling.”
Prince Albert is one of the wealthiest royals on the planet
Monaco is a tiny country.
PerInsider, it is less than one square mile in size smaller than New York City’s Central Park.
While that never came to fruition, Albert is a five-time Olympian, competing in bobsledding.
“I came to bobsledding quite by accident,” he said in November 1987 (viaUPI).
“I was on a skiing holiday in St. Moritz and took a guest ride.
I thought it was a thrilling experience.
I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was apprehensive at first.”
Alas, Albert never won an Olympic medal, and he competed in his last Games in 2002.
He’s interested in other sports, though.
Three years later, hemade the journey to the South Pole, making history.
He quite happily calls himself the bipolar prince."
As noted by theFinancial Times, Albert is working on making his own country more environmentally friendly.
“It’s not easy for anybody in a position of responsibility.
There are some very unpleasant meetings.
“He has said he feels ‘bullied,’ and I can understand …
