Princess of Monaco Stéphanie

Monaco noted family and daughter of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco. An independent, willful person of a definitely colorful life style, she was modeling and producing a fashion line by 1986. She married Daniel Ducruet on 1 July 1995 after they had two out-of-wedlock children, Louis, 1on 26 November 1992 and Pauline on 4 May 1994. She filed for divorce on 16 September 1996 after the media released pictures of him romping nude with Fili Houteman, Miss Bare Breasts of Belgium 1995. The divorce was made final by court order on October 4, 1996.

Stephanie and her sister, Caroline, were both comfortable in the limelight. Stephanie seemed to enjoy her savory lifestyle, much to her father's distress. She lost her mother, Princess Grace, in an auto accident on 13 September 1982 in which she only received minor injuries.

On 15 July 1998 she once more made news by giving birth to a little girl, Camille Marie Kelly, without naming the father. Bets are on a recent romantic attachment with Jean-Raymond Gottlieb, in his early 30s, a former bodyguard of 18 months. They broke up as he was "little accustomed to notoriety," however, he visited Princess Camille at the hospital.

In January 2000 she met Franco and Claudine Knie at a circus festival in Monaco. Many youngsters dream of running away to join a circus but Stephanie did so at age 35 along with her three kids, March 2000, while Claudine moved out with her 12-year-old autistic son. The princess set up her kingdom in a 40-ft trailer with Franco, the owner of the Swiss National Circus. Franco never bothered to get a divorce and by early 2002, Stephanie tired of life in the big top and returned to Monaco's palace.

After romantic adventures with two bodyguards, a nightclub owner, a ski instructor and a waiter, the democratic princess, 37, began keeping company with Richard Lucas, a palace butler or chef in 2002.