⭐ 💥 Portrait d'un mariage : la princesse Charlotte de Monaco et le comte Pierre de Polignac

La princesse Charlotte de Monaco épouse le comte Pierre de Polignac

Le 2 février 1920, à Paris, sont annoncées les fiançailles du comte Pierre de Polignac et de la princesse Charlotte de Monaco, duchesse de Valentinois. Cette union entre le noble français et la princesse monégasque est destinée à assurer l'avenir de la dynastie des Grimaldi.

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Le comte Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac est né le 24 octobre 1895 au château de Kerscamp. Pierre est le quatrième fils et le septième enfant du comte Maxence de Polignac et de Suzanne de la Torre y Mier. Pierre sert dans les forces armées françaises pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Il devient l'ami de Marcel Proust et de Jean Cocteau.

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Charlotte Louise Juliette de Monaco est née le 30 septembre 1898 à Constantine, en Algérie française. Charlotte était la fille unique du prince Louis de Monaco et de Marie Juliette Louvet. En 1919, le prince Louis adopta officiellement Charlotte à Paris, et elle fut reconnue comme sa fille légitime à la suite de cette adoption. Charlotte passa du statut de simple « Mademoiselle Charlotte Grimaldi de Monaco » à celui de « Son Altesse Sérénissime la princesse Charlotte de Monaco, duchesse de Valentinois » .

Le Prince héritier Albert et la Princesse héritière Mary de Monaco

Le père de Charlotte, Louis (1870-1949), était le fils unique du prince Albert Ier de Monaco (1848-1922) et de Lady Mary Victoria Hamilton (1850-1922), qui s'étaient mariés en 1869 et dont le mariage fut annulé en 1880. Le prince Albert était le seul enfant du prince Charles III de Monaco (1818-1889) et de la comtesse Antoinette de Mérode (1828-1864). Lady Mary était la seule fille de William Hamilton (1811-1863), 11e duc d'Hamilton, et de la princesse Marie Amélie de Bade (1817-1888).

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On 19 March 1920, Princess Charlotte of Monaco and Count Pierre de Polignac were married in a civil ceremony at Monte Carlo. The couple were joined in matrimony in a Roman Catholic service the following day, 20 March. The day before the civil wedding, on 18 March, Pierre de Polignac took the Grimaldi surname and became a Monegasque citizen. By virtue of marrying Charlotte, Pierre was titled as the Duke of Valentinois. Alas, this alliance between Charlotte and Pierre was not destined to end “happily ever after” for the parties involved.

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The Duke and Duchess of Valentinois welcomed their first child within nine months of their union. Princess Antoinette Louise Alberte Suzanne of Monaco was born on 28 December 1920 at Paris. Almost three years later, Charlotte and Pierre produced their second child and only son: Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand of Monaco arrived at the Princely Palace in Monte Carlo on 31 May 1923. After the birth of their second and last child, Pierre and Charlotte’s marriage foundered.

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In March 1930, Princess Charlotte and Prince Pierre legally separated after a decade of not-so-wedded bliss. Former French president Raymond Poincaré acted as a mediator for the princely couple. Charlotte left her husband in favour of her lover, the Italian doctor Pietro Dalmazzo. In her case for a separation, Charlotte sought a division of the couple’s marital property. In his followup to his wife’s lawsuit, Pierre cited Charlotte’s lover Dr Dalmazzo as a factor in the breakdown of the marriage. Pierre temporarily placed his children, Antoinette and Rainier, in the custody of Princess Henriette of Belgium, Duchess of Vendome. This infuriated Pierre’s father-in-law Prince Louis II. In February 1933, the divorce between Hereditary Princess Charlotte of Monaco and Prince Pierre was officially announced by the princely palace in Monte Carlo. In a letter to her father, the princess wrote: “All I ask is to be permitted to seek a peaceful life for myself. For reasons which have been clear for three years, I ask you to dissolve my marital ties and to grant me an absolute divorce.” The dissolution of the couple’s marriage “led to unofficial indications of displeasure from the Vatican.” As a condition of receiving the divorce, and in a stipulation that was only ratified years later, Charlotte gave up her succession rights so that her son Rainier would be the immediate heir of his grandpa Louis.

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Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphaël Antoine Melchior de Polignac was born on 24 October 1895 at the Château de Kerscamp. Pierre was the fourth son and seventh child of Count Maxence de Polignac and Suzanne de la Torre y Mier. Pierre served in the French Armed Forces during World War I. He became a friend of Marcel Proust and Jean Cocteau.

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Several months after Rainier’s wedding, in July 1956, Pierre underwent a 2 1/2 hour operation for a stomach ulcer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On 10 November 1964, Prince Pierre of Monaco died of cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The prince had been an active patron of the arts. He was sixty-nine years-old. Rainier and Antoinette were at their father’s bedside when he passed away. Pierre’s former wife survived him by over a decade. Princess Charlotte of Monaco died on 15 November 1977 at the Château de Marchais. The princess had taken to rehabilitating ex-convicts on her estate. She was seventy-nine years-old. Both Charlotte and Pierre are buried at the Chapelle de la Paix in Monte Carlo.