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Prince Rainier III, born 31 May, 1923, son of Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, daughter of Prince Louis II, born 30 Sept. 1898 (married 19 March, 1920, to Prince Pierre, Comte de Polignac, who had taken the name Grimaldi, from whom she was divorced 18 Feb., 1933). Prince Rainier succeeded his grandfather Louis II, who died on 9 May, 1949. He married on 18 April, 1956, Miss Grace Kelly, a citizen of the U.S.A. He has a sister, Princess Antoinette, born 28 Dec., 1920.
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Journal de Monaco. Bulletin Officiel. 1858 ff.
Labande (Leon H.), Histoire de la Principauté de Monaco. Paris, 1934.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1956). Monaco. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270855_52
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