11 Scandals The Monaco Royal Household Can By no means Erase

It is no secret that Prince Albert received round throughout his “playboy” period. And for many years, rumors about Albert’s girlfriends — and their doable love youngsters — circulated by way of Le Rocher. As one of many prince’s pals, Stéphane Bern, informed City & Nation, this kind of gossip was so frequent that “in the future Albert informed me, ‘Oh, if I listened to all of the claims, I might have extra youngsters than anyone else on the earth.'” 

Jokes apart, although, Albert has fathered no less than two royal love youngsters through the years. In 1991, the prince had a romantic encounter with the California-based actual property agent, Tamara Rotolo, whereas she was vacationing on the French Ivory Coast. 9 months later, Rotolo gave beginning to a woman, who she named Jazmin Grace Grimaldi after Albert’s mom. For years, the prince refused to acknowledge the paternity of his daughter, dodging Rotolo’s makes an attempt to safe a DNA check. In actual fact, it was not till the younger lady turned 14 that Albert lastly agreed to publicly admit that Jazmin was, certainly, his little one.

The same state of affairs came about in 2003 when an Air France flight attendant, Nicole Coste, gave beginning to a boy, Alexandre Grimaldi-Coste. Though Albert and Nicole had been seeing one another for 5 years previous to the boy’s beginning, it took months for the prince to say paternity. In actual fact, he solely did so after Nicole leaked information of the boy’s existence to the press.