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Plot to kidnap Monaco royals
July 16
Matthew Campbell
FRENCH police are investigating a threat against the children of Princess Caroline of Monaco after an anonymous tip-off about a plot to kidnap them in Paris.
Monaco’s police and its Paris embassy received the warning on Wednesday evening from an unidentified caller who claimed that the three children were in danger of being abducted this weekend.
NI_MPU('middle');French police declined to go into details but a source in Monaco said the threat was being taken “seriously” and “calmly” by the family. Security arrangements for the children were under review.
Caroline is the sister of Prince Albert II, who recently celebrated his first anniversary in power after the death last year of Prince Rainier III, his father. Her children — Andrea, 22, Charlotte, 20, and Pierre, 18 — are icons of the international jet set as well as candidates to inherit the Monaco throne if bachelor Albert fails to produce an heir.
The motives of the plotters were unknown. France began a weekend of celebrations on Friday to mark the storming of the Bastille in the revolution of 1789 and Caroline’s children were expected to be in Paris. It was believed to be the first such threat against members of Monaco’s ruling family.
The media spotlight on Albert and his sisters, including Princess Stéphanie, “wild child” of the centuries-old Grimaldi clan, has shifted to the younger generation. Caroline’s children, as well as Jazmin, a 14-year-old Californian whom Albert recently acknowledged was his illegitimate daughter, are the latest obsession of the French glossy magazines.
Charlotte’s good looks and elegance have prompted comparisons with Grace Kelly, her actress grandmother, who married Rainier in 1956. Kelly’s death in a car crash in 1982 was one of the first in a string of misfortunes to hit the family and prompt talk of a “curse of the Grimaldis”.
The handsome Andrea is said to have a “tempestuous” temperament. Caroline has urged her brother to take him under his wing and give him a role in the administration of the tiny principality. Stefano Casiraghi, Andrea’s father and a dashing Italian business magnate, was killed in a power boat accident off Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1990. A heartbroken Caroline moved her young family to a small village in rural France where the children were shielded from public gaze in the hope that they would lead normal lives. For this reason Charlotte, a law student in Paris, was not given the title of princess, although it is her birthright. Caroline subsequently married Prince Ernst August Hanover, a cousin of the Queen, and the couple divide their time between Paris, Monaco and Germany.
www.timesonline.co.uk
Plot to kidnap Monaco royals
July 16
Matthew Campbell
Monaco’s police and its Paris embassy received the warning on Wednesday evening from an unidentified caller who claimed that the three children were in danger of being abducted this weekend.
NI_MPU('middle');French police declined to go into details but a source in Monaco said the threat was being taken “seriously” and “calmly” by the family. Security arrangements for the children were under review.
Caroline is the sister of Prince Albert II, who recently celebrated his first anniversary in power after the death last year of Prince Rainier III, his father. Her children — Andrea, 22, Charlotte, 20, and Pierre, 18 — are icons of the international jet set as well as candidates to inherit the Monaco throne if bachelor Albert fails to produce an heir.
The motives of the plotters were unknown. France began a weekend of celebrations on Friday to mark the storming of the Bastille in the revolution of 1789 and Caroline’s children were expected to be in Paris. It was believed to be the first such threat against members of Monaco’s ruling family.
The media spotlight on Albert and his sisters, including Princess Stéphanie, “wild child” of the centuries-old Grimaldi clan, has shifted to the younger generation. Caroline’s children, as well as Jazmin, a 14-year-old Californian whom Albert recently acknowledged was his illegitimate daughter, are the latest obsession of the French glossy magazines.
Charlotte’s good looks and elegance have prompted comparisons with Grace Kelly, her actress grandmother, who married Rainier in 1956. Kelly’s death in a car crash in 1982 was one of the first in a string of misfortunes to hit the family and prompt talk of a “curse of the Grimaldis”.
The handsome Andrea is said to have a “tempestuous” temperament. Caroline has urged her brother to take him under his wing and give him a role in the administration of the tiny principality. Stefano Casiraghi, Andrea’s father and a dashing Italian business magnate, was killed in a power boat accident off Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1990. A heartbroken Caroline moved her young family to a small village in rural France where the children were shielded from public gaze in the hope that they would lead normal lives. For this reason Charlotte, a law student in Paris, was not given the title of princess, although it is her birthright. Caroline subsequently married Prince Ernst August Hanover, a cousin of the Queen, and the couple divide their time between Paris, Monaco and Germany.
www.timesonline.co.uk
Me either. 
