Round birthday: The wild times are over – Stéphanie from Monaco turns 60

Short hair, round glasses, mostly an outfit that looks casual and relaxed. A woman who rests. Of the moving love life of the princely “Enfant Terrible”, which once caught in a video clip in a tight bikini panties on the beach, only the headlines of old newspapers testify. Today Stéphanie von Monaco, who turns 60 on February 1, is in her role as a benefactor, mother of three and grandmother of two grandchildren.

Her latest grandchild, Constance, was born in early December 2024. That is an incredible happiness, the princess said in an interview with the women’s magazine “Gala”. You made your son Louis and his wife Marie the double proud grandmother.

She was also enthusiastic about her role as a grandmother in the weekly newspaper “Point de Vue”: “I am very happy for the two and selfishly for me as a grandmother. I am very happy to be again, because it is a nice adventure . “

Louis is Stéphanie’s oldest child. The 32-year-old comes from her first marriage to ex-body guard Daniel Ducruet, from whom she also has the 30-year-old daughter Pauline. Her third child, the 26-year-old Camille, comes from her relationship with Jean-Raymond Gottlieb, also one of her former bodyguards.

“The family is the strongest anchor you can have,” she told the “Gala”. She likes large families in which everyone comes together. That was successful for her and her children. You would have created a small cocoon. The birth of her children was one of her most beautiful moments in life. In an earlier dpa interview, she said: “Being a mother – that’s the most beautiful job”.

Stéphanie himself lost her mother at the age of 17. She was sitting in the car with which Patricia Gracia had a fatal accident.

Scandals and love without class boundaries

The boulevard press loved Stéphanie, whose love life kept making headlines. Instead of loving noble and rich men, she gave her heart bodyguards, circus artists and other unconventional partners. But none of her relationships lasted for a long time.

From Ducruet, whom she married in 1995 after the birth of her two children Louis and Pauline, she was divorced only a year later. She does not forgive him his flirt with a Belgian stripper.

The relationship with Gottlieb broke into the breaks shortly after the birth of Camille. The secret wedding in September 2003 with almost ten years younger circus artist Adans Lopez Peres was again found for the tabloid – as well as a divorce 14 months later.

Model, pop star, designer

Regardless of labels, in the 1980s, she tried to make a name for herself as a singer and artist. Her first record in the mid -1980s entitled “Ouragan” (English: “Irresistible”) became a hit and conquered the charts in several countries.

“One Love to Give”, her single release, also stormed the hit lists. As a new star in the music sky, however, the pop princess only shone for a short time. Her career as a designer was also short -term. In 1985 she launched “pool position”, a collection of swimsuits and beach clothing, for which she also posed as a mannequin. An adventure that ended in 1987.

Similar interests in the daughters

Stéphanie bequeathed her former love of fashion to her daughter Pauline. In 2018, the young woman launched her “Old Design” collection – environmentally conscious and unisex. And Camille inherited her mother’s charitable vein.

After the fatal accident of one of her friends, she launched “Be Safe Monaco”, a club that is fighting against drunken youth at the wheel. She also shares Stéphanie’s passion for the circus world with her. Camille has been at her side for years when the curtain at the start of Monte-Carlo’s international circus festival, whose president Stéphanie is. Since the death of her father Rainier III. In 2005 the event takes place under its patronage.

In 2004, Stéphanie founded the AIDS-Hilfe Association Fight Aids Monaco, which has been heading since then. In 2006 the princess was appointed special representative of the International Organization Unaids who are devoted to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Today she is her “ambassador of good will”.

Stéphanie has never regretted any of her life decisions: “mistakes are important because you learn from them. I would not want to do anything else in my life, otherwise I would not be the one I am today,” she said in the dpa interview.

Today she works in her family and charitable work. To dedicate the sick time, help them and know that the suffering can at least alleviate a little, fulfill it, as she said: “Our world is very self -related, very selfish. For me, this work has become a kind of life drive for me . “