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== Early life ==

 

== Regency ==

On [[March 7]], [[2005]], [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Rainier]] was admitted to a hospital in the principality and on [[March 22]] he was moved to intensive care. The Prince was being treated for breathing, kidney, and heart trouble. On [[March 31]], [[2005]], the Palace of Monaco announced that Prince Albert would take over the duties of his father as [[Regent]] since [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Rainier]] was no longer able to exercise his royal functions. The 47-year-old prince spent his first day as regent of Monaco caring for his critically ill 81-year-old father, who was Europe’s longest-serving living monarch.

 

== Controversy ==

=== Bachelorhood ===

Over the years, there has been much discussion of the prince's continued bachelor status. Though he has received much press attention for dating well-known fashion models and actresses, including [[Angie Everhart]] and [[Claudia Schiffer]], as well as [[Victoria Zdrok]] (who has been both a [[Playboy]] Playmate and a [[Penthouse magazine|Penthouse]] Pet), his apparent disinclination to marry gave rise to rumors that he is [[gay]], and merely engaged in superficial, sham dating. Prince Albert has consistently denied this suggestion, most notably in a [[1994]] interview published in the French magazine ''[[Madame Figaro]]''. "At first it was amusing," he said, "but it becomes very irritating in the long term to hear people say that I am homosexual." {{ref|note1}} The birth of Alexandre Coste and the official confirmation he is Prince Albert's child put many of the gay theories to rest.

 

 

=== Paternity suits ===

In 1992, a California woman, [[Tamara Rotolo|Tamara J. Rotolo]], filed a paternity suit against the prince, claiming that he was the father of her illegitimate daughter, whom she named [[Jazmin Grace Grimaldi]]. However, the case, which went to trial in 1993, eventually was dismissed by Superior Court Judge Graham Anderson Cribbs, who claimed that there was "insufficient contact between Albert and the state of California to justify hearing a suit there" ([[Evening Standard]], [[March 24]], [[1993]], page 20), agreeing with an assertion by the prince's lawyer, [[Stanley Arkin]], that the California court had no jurisdiction. In court papers, Prince Albert admitted that he had been with Tamara Rotolo in [[Monaco]] on "a couple of occasions" in July [[1991]]. (The child had been born approximately nine months later, on [[March 4]], [[1992]].) As reported by a local newspaper covering the case, "Arkin asserted that the Riverside County court had no jurisdiction in the case since the romantic encounter supposedly occurred in Monaco and Albert has had no contacts with California that relate to the issues in the suit." {{ref|note2}} Prince Albert has not agreed to Rotolo's request that he take a paternity test.

 

 

== Succession issues ==

As Prince Albert has yet to marry, his lack of legitimate children became a matter of public and political concern, due to the possibility that there might be no successors to the throne upon his death. Monaco's constitution specifies that only "direct and legitimate" descendants can assume the throne. Albert's illegitimate son, Alexandre, could be legitimated via legislation or if Albert marries the boy's mother, however, he has so far refused to do either. On [[April 2]], [[2002]] Monaco passed Princely Law 1.249 which provides that if a reigning prince dies without surviving legitimate issue, the throne would pass to his siblings and their descendants under the rule of male-preference [[primogeniture]]. Before this change, the crown could pass to a direct male descendant of the reigning prince only, making Albert's sisters ineligible. This change made the extinction of the Grimaldi dynasty less likely. (This did not arise in Rainier's case, as he succeeded his maternal grandfather, not an uncle.)

 

# {{note|note1}} "[[Madame Figaro]]", 1994; reported in [[Daily Mail]], [[August 13]], [[1994]], page 17.

# {{note|note2}} "[[Riverside Press-Enterprise]]", [[March 13]], [[1993]], page BO2

 

 

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