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Stamps
The wedding of a Princess is
well worth a stamp surcharge!
A little more than a century ago, Monaco was celebrating
the wedding of Princess Charlotte at the Principality’s ca-
thedral.
On that day, she married Pierre de Given that there was no other
Polignac who had accepted to give heir, the Rock should have been
up his name and become a Grimaldi passed on to Albert I’s cousin, Duke
to ensure the future of the prin- Guillaume d’Urach, whose situa-
cely family. It should be noted tion was impossible because he
that the situation was complex… was German. This was the end of
Princess Charlotte was the illegiti- the First World War and this was
mate daughter of Louis II and was not an option for the Prince of
educated outside of the «Rock”. Monaco. On 16 May 1919,
Albert I was very modern in his ap- Charlotte was legally adopted by
proach at the time, legitimising the her father Louis II and became the
young woman as a princess. Duchess of Valentinois.
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