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PRINCESS STÉPHANIE

IT’S safe to say no other royal has had as colourful a love life as Princess Stéphanie of Monaco. Others may also have married more than once – but few can count among their exes bodyguards, an elephant trainer and an acrobat.

The youngest daughter of Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly has been rather unlucky in love. The 57-year-old is now single and has devoted herself to her children and her charity work and she’s looking forward to being a grandmother for the first time after her eldest son, Louis Ducruet (29) announced in November 2022 that he and his wife Marie Chevallier (29) were expecting a baby.

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As a model, Stéphanie appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair, and in 1986 launched her short-lived music career with a hit single, Irresistible. She was in high demand and changed suitors like ready-to-wear gowns.

Stéphanie (then 21) had a thing for US actor Rob Lowe and treasured magazines with his image on them. He was “really cute”, she told a French magazine.

Meanwhile, in the US,

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