Royal Profile: HSH Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Countess of Polinac
Stephanie Marie Elisabeth Grimaldi (aka HSH Princess Stephanie of Monaco, Countess of Polinac) is the third and youngest child of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco and is presently 6th in line for the throne of Monaco after her niece, Princess Alexandra of Hanover, at her birth she was third after her two older siblings. She was born on 1 February 1965 at the Palais Princier in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Princess Grace considered her youngest child “the miracle baby” often favoring her as Princess Stephanie was not only the youngest, but was born after two failed pregnancies and is several years younger than her older siblings are. Her godparents were her Uncle John B. Kelly Jr and cousin Baroness Elisabeth-Anne de Massy. She was privately tutored until she was four years old, and then attended a private school in Monaco. In the mid-1970s when her sister, Princess Caroline went to Paris for University, Princess Stephanie and her mother followed her there, as Grace feared that Pr...