ALEXANDRE ERIC WON’T BE A SUCCESSOR TO HIS FATHER’S THRONE
Alexandre Eric Stephane Coste (b. August 24, 2003), is the son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco. Young Alexandre will, however, not be a successor to his father’s throne because he is considered the “illegitimate” son of the Prince; any children born out of wedlock are considered illegitimate as stated by Monaco’s constitution.
Nicole Coste, the mother of Alexandre, was a flight attendant when she met the Prince. In 2005, she requested for a DNA test to prove that Alexandre was the son of Prince Albert II. Albert II later admitted publicly in 2005 that he was the father of young Alexandre: “I recognised this child before a lawyer a few weeks after [his] birth.”
See more pictures of Nicole Coste and her son as they headed to an airport on April 8th. See a picture of the Prince, too.
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Oooo! I re-read my comment up there (#6) and I didn’t mean to imply that Grace would be racist…..I meant that she would be appalled at her son, Albert’s behaviour. If a woman is good enough to sleep with, then she should be good enough to marry. He should’ve stood up to his dad and kept the relationship. Then maybe they would’ve married & this would all be a moot point.
I apologize for the misunderstanding.
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Leah~
Prayer is powerful and it will change that mentality, try it!!
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Prince Albert’s Grandmother was illegitimate and some how she was able to become a princess and her son was able to rule. the rule have change. if Prince Albert does not produce a legitiment son Monaco will go back to France so the rule has tighten besides his nephew princess Caroline’s oldest son is next in line fornow.
his son not being able to rule is not a race thing. Prince Albert has a white American daughter he has denied for ten years.
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Só por causa que o menino é de cor? racismo é você pensar que só por causa disso ele foi desfavorecido, se você não conhece história esta não foi a primeira ocasião que um rei ou principe teve um filho fora do casamento!
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NÃO COLOQUE A COR À FRENTE DA PESSOA, SÓ ASSIM PARAREMOS COM ESSA “HIPOCRESIA” E “DEMAGOGIA”.
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“Prince Albert loves black women…but not enough to marry one I guess. And this baby mama looks like a cross between Serena Williams and Jennifer Hudson.”
At first glance, I thought it was Serena. Then second look, I thought it was JHud. So I guess we know the prince’s “type”.
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It is about race because the father Prince Renier rewrote the constitution after this child was born. He knew for over a year about the baby and that is what drove him to do it..
Why didn’t he write it when his sl*tty daughter Stefanie was making her kids? Please..
Albert may overturn that, he’s KIng.. People’s attitude change in years to come..
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LOOK YOU ALL,,, IAM SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT NO EUROPEAN MONARCHY WILL ALLOW A HALF BLACK AFRICAN CHILD TO INHERITE ANY THRONE IN EUROPE, LET’S BE REAL OK AND STOP WISHING IS COULD BE SO…IAM POSTED HERE IN TOGO AND ALL I SEE ARE SILLY LITTLE AFRICAN GIRLS WISHING TO BE TAKEN TO EUROPE,,,THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO DO SO , EVEN GET PREGNANT BY A WHITE MAN HOPING HE WOULD LOVE HER AND DO RIGHT ,BUT SELDOM THEY DO,,,MOST COME TO TOGO AND HAVE SEX , LEAVE TO GO BACK TO THE GIRL OR WIFE HE LEFT IN EUROPE,, I SEE IT ALL THE TIME,,,IAM SURE MS COSTE THOUGHT IT AS WELL…IAM SURE SHE GOT PREGNANT INTENTIONALLY THINKING SHE WOULD EITHER INHERITE THE THRONE OR ALEAST HER CHILD WOULD…IAM SURE SHE WAS DISAPPOINTED BUT AT LEAST THE CHILD IS TAKING CARE OF FOR MOST HALF BREEDED KIDS HERE IN AFRICA ARE NOT,,,,
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At least they were together for six years before she got pregnant…Understandably she might have hoped that after being together for so long, he would have broken the rules and married her…smh BTW, Look at a younger pic of Prince Albert in unirorm, they sooo resemble!
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Being born in Paris, France, Alexandre Eric Stephane IS NOT AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD. The words “illegitimate child” were removed from the French law.
FRENCH CIVIL CODE, Article 310 (Act no 2002-305 of 4 March 2002) :
“All children whose parentage is lawfully established have the same rights and the same duties in their relations with their father and mother. They enter into the family of each of them”.
Article 311-14 (Act no 72-3 of 3 Jan. 1972) :
“Parentage is governed by the personal law of the mother on the day of the child’s birth; where the mother is unknown, by the child’s personal law”.
Article 311-15 :
“However, where a child and his father and mother or any one of them have their usual common or separate residence in France, the apparent status has all the consequences it produces according to French law, even when the other elements of the parentage may depend upon a foreign law”.
Source : http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr
or http://195.83.177.9/code/liste.phtml?lang=uk&c=22&r=296#art31681
In the case of Alexandre Eric Stephane who was born in France and whose parentage is lawfully established under the French law, as the eldest son of the Reigning Prince of Monaco, HE IS the next Head of the Sovereign House of Grimaldi and THE HEIR APPARENT OF THE MONEGASQUE THRONE. The Princely Family of Monaco knows this.
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Good afternoon …
It is my first time on this website … and I am franch, so please forgive me with the langage.
I have not read the entire comment because Monaco is not France. It is a sovereign state. French laws (as in Legifrance website) do not apply in Monaco.
Nicole Coste has got a “little” fat. At the time Albert and her met, she was thin. Coste is not her true name; it is the one she chose to have one name that sounds native French. Nicole Coste is African, from Togo (Africa’s west coast), and her true name is Nicole Tossoukpé.
Voilà
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WHOA!!! YOU GO GIRL/BOY! (in regards to de saint-louis) You did your research allright! We’ll just have to wait and see what happens. We’ll some day find out if Prince Albert is a man or a mouse!
Besides, if Obama can become president, any thing is possible!
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Everyone knows Alexander is directely the next to the throne. They just don’t want to admit. It is ridiculous. The kidd is only about 6 years old. Everything starts with a denial and then they will have no choice. Monaco belongs to him.
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saint louis apparently didn’t do their research too well. Monaco and France are two different places with different laws. While France does not consider a child “illegit”, Monaco does. Due to Monaco’s constitution he has to marry her or Alexandre isn’t gonna be ruling anything and seeing as he hasn’t done it yet, I don’t think it’s gonna happen! The European laws on inheiretence is only involving money and estate, not something like right to succession.
@Chanks…
It has nothing to do with race at all.
The constitution of Monaco, which was rewritten in 2002 (A good year plus before Alexandre was born)was changed out of fear that Albert would not produce a legitimate heir. Before that the succession went to the reigning princes’ direct line, his children. So Rainier was followed by Albert, then Caro and her kids, then Steph and her kids, and once Rainier was gone Caro and Steph wouldn’t be in the line anymore so it would just be Albert by himself, since he had no “legit” kids. That’s why they changed the law to allow that Albert’s siblings could stay in the line after he became the Sovereign Prince. Why they got rid of the adoption rule, idk. They also made it so that Monaco wouldn’t have to return to France if they didn’t have an heir.
Rainier’s “sl*tty” daughter married the guy she got pregnant with so her first child became and her 2nd child was born legitimate. Her 3rd child,from a different guy after she got divorced, isn’t in the line and most likely never will be. Both of Rainier’s daughters had children that weren’t born legit but later became through proper channels. Albert has a white kid whose almost grown and was born before the new constitution and he didn’t make her legit, he didn’t even publicly claim her until she was like 14. Atleast he acknowledged the black kid first. And from what I read they had broken up after Rainier didn’t want a “Prince married to a flight attendent thing” (since his grandmother being a maid was made into a big deal)but she kept coming around and ended up pregnant. Then decided to oust him while he was in mourning and he asked her to wait a while before he would sign the birth certificate but she did a magazine spread to “appeal to his heart” or something like that, even though he was already paying her.
I’m not saying she a gold digger but…..
Rainier and Grace paid for Josephine Baker’s concerts/shows and living when she was poor and they didn’t even know her before that. I don’t think they were racist.
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Yeah right. The law of Monacco would never trump the french law. Ever. Just wait till Alexander reaches 18. It all will depend on him. He totally has access to that throne if if want if…lol.
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my comment was way to long!!
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I agree with de Saint-Louis.
Alexandre Eric is not an illegitimate child because he was born in France and he was acknowledged in France by his father, Prince Albert II of Monaco. In his case, the parentage is governed by the French law, not by the Monegasque law. As the eldest son of the Prince of Monaco, he can legally proclaim himself Heredetary Prince of Monaco, in France.
If the country where a child was born and acknowledged by his father considers him “legitimate”, none country in the world can consider him “illegitimate”. So, Monaco cannot consider Alexandre Eric “illegitimate”.
The French law is very clear : the article 310 of the French civil code does not specify that THE SAME RIGHTS AND THE SAME DUTIES are only about real estate or money! IT’S ABOUT ALL RELATIONS BETWEEN ALEXANDRE ERIC AND HIS FATHER, including the throne.
About the succession rules to the throne, the article 10 of the Monegasque constitution states the following :
“The succession to the throne, opened by death or abdication, takes place among direct and legitimate issue of the Reigning Prince, by order of primogeniture with priority given to males within the same degree of kinship…”
Alexandre Eric was acknowledged in France by the Reigning Prince of Monaco as his direct and legitimate issue, so he cannot be excluded by this succession rule.
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MONEGASQUE CIVIL CODE, article 226-9 :
“The legitimization can benefit to all children born out of wedlock provided that, by voluntary acknowledgement or by court judgement, their parentage has been lawfully established with regard to their two parents.”
Source : http://www.legimonaco.mc
Under the Monegasque law, Alexandre Eric Stephane is a legitimate child because he was acknowledged by his parents and his parentage is lawfully established with regard to his two parents. Under the French law, where he was born and acknowledged by his parents, he is a legitimate child ipso facto. Alexandre Eric Stephane is thus the legitimate Hereditary Prince of Monaco.
Hereditary Prince Alexandre Eric Stephane of Monaco,
WITH GOD’S HELP!
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Monaco laws prohibit children born out of wedlock from royal succession(this also applied to Princess Stefanie’s kids for many years, until she married the circus trainer).
HOWEVER, Prince Albert is and absolute Monarch. This means that he can change the Monagasque constitution at any time(as his predecessors have done in the past).
His children may not be in line for the throne but both Alexanfre and his daughter are the only heirs to his personal estate(in case he dies) estimated at between 5-10 billion dollars.
And yes, this was not a fly-by-night relationship. He met her and started dating her for several years(there are pics of her at the palace and at formal and informal events, while his father was still alive).
She was the most consistent of all his girlfriends over the years(since he is know to be quite the player, one of hisother conquest was Naomi Campbell). However, his father felt that he was paying a bit too much attention to this particular girlfriend.
There is also Her Serene Highness, Princess Angela Brown of Lichtecstein. She is Afro-Panamanian, who is married to Prince Maximilian. They have an eight year old son, HSH, Prince Alfons.
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Monegasque law do not prohibit children born out of wedlock from royal succession.
Article 10 of the Monegasque constitution states the following :
“The succession to the throne, opened by death or abdication, takes place among direct and legitimate issue of the Reigning Prince, by order of primogeniture with priority given to males within the same degree of kinship…”
Under the Monegasque law, “the legitimization can benefit to all children born out of wedlock provided that their parentage has been lawfully established with regard to their two parents” (Monegasque civil code, article 226-9).
These are facts. Let’s hope Monaco will respect his own laws.
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Prince Albert II would have to MARRY his son’s mother for his son to be considered LEGITIMATE and thus fit for the throne.
France & Monaco are two different countries. Monaco is SOVEREIGN. They can make whatever laws they want regarding the succession to the throne.
If the Crown Prince of Japan had a son born out of wedlock with, say an American, do you think the son would EVER ascend the Japanese throne?
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Cute! The little boy has his Grandmother Princess Grace Kelly’s blonde locks:-)
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well thats what happens whe you dont use a condom
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