While Princess Charlene and Prince Albert’s love story should have been a fairytale romance, the couple faced some very public scandals during their time together. In 2005, it was revealed that Albert had fathered a son called Alexandre, born in 2002, with a flight attendant named Nicole Costes, Town & Country reported. In 2006, Albert discovered he was also the father of a daughter named Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, whose mother, Tamara Rotolo, was a Californian waitress who’d allegedly had a brief dalliance with the Monégasque prince in 1991. After welcoming the pair into the family, Alexandre and Jazmin were subsequently photographed alongside Albert and Charlene’s twins, Jacques and Gabriella, in 2022.
In 2021, Albert faced yet another paternity claim, this time from a Brazilian woman based in Italy named Mariza S, who claimed that the prince was the father of her daughter, via The Telegraph. According to the publication, Mariza S claimed that she’d had an affair with the prince while he was already dating Princess Charlene. A representative for the prince told the outlet, “Our only comment is that the purported facts are false and the claims being made by the plaintiff are unfounded.” Regardless of the outcome of Albert’s third paternity suit, it seems that the prince’s marriage to Charlene is incredibly important in reassuring his subjects that he is a stable family man capable of leading the country.
