Prince Albert 'admits illegitimate child'

PARIS, France (Reuters) -- Prince Albert of Monaco, son of the late Hollywood actress Grace Kelly, has admitted that he fathered a second illegitimate child, his lawyer said in a newspaper interview.

Fourteen-year-old American high school student Jazmin Grace Rotolo will not be entitled to the throne because under the constitution of the tiny Mediterranean principality only a child born into Catholic wedlock can succeed.

"The prince officially recognises the paternity that was legally established several weeks ago," his lawyer Thierry Lacoste told Le Figaro daily newspaper.

Shortly after succeeding his father Prince Rainier, Albert admitted last July that he had an illegitimate son with a flight attendant from Togo.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/01/monaco.albert.reut/index.html

At least the girl knows now not to fall in love with her
half-brother.

Helluva way to do it!

the principality of Monaco to France after the demise of Prince Albert if he dies without "legitimate" heirs.

Or what if he married the mothers and made the kid(s) legitimate? Would that make everything OK?

will NOT go to France.

The succession law was changed a few years ago, and Princess Caroline will inherit the throne (if she outlives Albert) - if he outlives her, I'm not exactly clear whether the throne would go to her son, Andrea, or Princess Stephanie - but in any case, Monaco won't be going to France anytime soon.

The Monaco laws allow succession only if the child is born in Catholic wedlock. I don't think the Catholic church allows for marriage to be retroactive.

Princess Stephanie's two older children were born before her marriage to their father, yet they are considered legitimate.

I'm just askin'...

the word "illegitimate" in reference to children was retired.

was removed from birth certificates in Jamaica in the 1970s. There are no illegitimate children here.

only bastard fathers.

:)

I suppose there are some people who need sticks surgically removed who still think that way, but - except for the inheritance of a throne, it hardly seems used anymore. :shrug: