About Me
I was born on August 3rd, 1986 at the Princess Grace Clinic in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Also known as Charlotte of Monaco, I am the daughter of HSH Princess Caroline of Monaco (now styled HRH Princess of Hanover by marriage) and, Stefano Casiraghi, an Italian industrialist. I is named after my maternal great-grandmother, Princess Charlotte of Monaco. I suppose I am rather popular with the paparazzi and society reporters, who find my stylish good looks to be reminiscent of my mother and maternal grandmother, American Actress Grace Kelly. I have many relatives in the United States where her grandmother was from; when my mother, Princess Caroline, was younger, Casiraghi would spend holidays at my grandparents' home in Monte Carlo. Although I hold no title, she is fourth in line to the throne of Monaco.
Along with her my brothers, Andrea, who is two years older, and my younger brother, Pierre, born a year after I was, I grew up in the tiny Mediterranean principality ruled over by my maternal grandfather, Rainier III of Monaco. When I was four years old, my father was killed in a boating accident. Distraught, my mother Princess Caroline moved the family to the beautiful Midi village of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France where us kids grew up protected from the inquisitive eyes of the press.
When I was five, my paternal grandparents, Giancarlo and Fernanda Casiraghi, gave me a small island off Sardinia reportedly valued at US $7 million,[2] or $9 million according to one source.
In January 1999, I gained a stepfather when my mother Princess Caroline married her friend's husband Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover. Five months later, Casiraghi's half-sister, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, was born at a clinic in Austria. We then moved to the Parisian suburb of Fontainebleau, so Princess Caroline and her new husband would have a base closer to his German roots and his children from a previous marriage, who live in London with their mother Chantal Hochuli. I continued to pursue show jumping in my new community by participating in a number of Junior and Amateur class equestrian competitions. My trainer at the time, Thierry Rozier, was quoted in the US magazine Newsweek saying that I wanted to be seen as a serious show jumping athlete, rather than a socialite.
I obtained an "excellent" mark on my baccalaureate exam in July 2004. Since passing my "BAC exam" then, through June 2006, I was enrolled in the hypokhâgne and khâgne course at the Lycée Fénelon, in St-Germain-des-Près - Paris, in the hope of preparing myself for the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) entrance exams. I took the written entrance exam for ENS in June 2006 but did not make the list of candidates eligible to proceed to the oral exam. I am currently enrolled at the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne, in the philosophy course (junior year).AIM name: xoCharlotteCxo
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