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  2. Prince's Palace of Monaco - Wikipedia

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    Prince's Palace of Monaco The arms of the Prince of Monaco. The supporters represent François Grimaldi who, according to legend, in 1297 captured the fortress disguised as a monk. The Prince's Palace of Monaco (French: Palais princier de Monaco; Monégasque: Palaçi principescu) is the official residence of the Sovereign Prince of Monaco.

  3. House of Grimaldi - Wikipedia

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    Louise-Hippolyte, Princess of Monaco - mother of Honoré III, Prince of Monaco; Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (1720–1795) Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (1758–1819) Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (1778–1841) Florestan I, Prince of Monaco (1785–1856) Charles III, Prince of Monaco (1818–1889) Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848–1922)

  4. Monarchy of Monaco - Wikipedia

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    The sovereign prince (French: prince de Monaco) is the monarch and head of state of the Principality of Monaco. All reigning princes and princesses have taken the name of the House of Grimaldi. When Prince Rainier III died in 2005, he was Europe's longest reigning monarch. [1]

  5. Rainier III, Prince of Monaco - Wikipedia

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    Rainier was born at Prince's Palace in Monaco, the first native-born prince since Honoré IV in 1758. Rainier's mother, Charlotte, was the only child of Louis II, Prince of Monaco, and his lover, Marie Juliette Louvet; she was legitimised through formal adoption and subsequently named heiress presumptive to the throne of Monaco.

  6. Monaco - Wikipedia

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    He died six days later, after a reign of 56 years, with his son succeeding him as Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco. Following a period of official mourning, Prince Albert II formally assumed the princely crown on 12 July 2005, [56] in a celebration that began with a solemn Mass at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, where his father had been buried ...

  7. List of rulers of Monaco - Wikipedia

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    Starting in 1612, Honoré II was the first Monegasque ruler to adopt the personal style of Prince, to which the Grimaldi rulers of Monaco were already entitled to through their possession in Italy. Monaco was recognized as a sovereign principality by Philip IV of Spain in 1633 and by Louis XIII of France in the Treaty of Péronne of 1641.

  8. Odeon Tower - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the 1980s, Prince Rainier III decided to stop building high rises in Monaco, following the construction of some controversial architectural choices. In 2008 his son, Prince Albert II, decided to abandon a polder project (judged as too expensive and too dangerous for surrounding sealife) and build a new high-rise and reformed polder project instead.

  9. Portal:Monarchy/Featured article - Wikipedia

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    The Prince's Palace of Monaco is the official residence of the Prince of Monaco. Originally founded in 1191 as a Genoese fortress , during its long and often dramatic history it has been bombarded and besieged by many foreign powers.