TOAndrea Casiraghi the eldest son of Stefano Casiraghi and the Princess Caroline of Monaco, was barely six years old when he lost his father. It all happened on October 3, 1990, while the Italian businessman was participating in a boat race in Monte Carlo Bay, specifically in the second round of the Offshore World Championship, of which he was the current champion. On the race course that day there were three-foot-high waves, which caused his twin-drive catamaran, the 42-foot long Pinot de Pinot, to capsize. The co-pilot, Patrice Innocenti, was ejected, but the prince consort remained tied to his seat, withstanding the full impact of the boat falling into the water, and he died practically instantly.
That tragedy marked the adolescence of Andrea, a sensitive guy who needed psychological help and who, as his grandmother would later confess, He used to wear his father’s clothes to remind him. Both he and his little brothers, charlotte and Peter, grew up with their mother between Monaco and Roc Agel, the Grimaldi country home in the Alpes-Maritimes. During the nineties, Carolina combined raising her children with her official commitments and a love affair with the French actor. Vincent Lindon, with whom he lived for a while in an old farm in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (France). She then she fell in love with Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, and at the time boyfriend of one of her best friends. The couple married in 1999 and seven months after the wedding they welcomed their only daughter together, Alexandra of Hanover.
After studying for a few years at a school in Saint-Remy, Andrea attended the International School of Paris, a prestigious private English-speaking institute. Later He enrolled at the American University of Paris, where he graduated in Visual Arts and International Politics.. He also spent some time in Madrid, where he obtained a master’s degree at the Instituto de Empresa. Although this was not his only contact with Spain, since the prince frequently spent the summer in Ibiza, where some locals came to see him overjoyed. Following this same line of rebellion, Andrea He was arrested in 2011 by the French police while traveling at 200 kilometers per hour in his sports car – the agents took away his driving license and confiscated the vehicle.
He was able to reign in Monaco
In reality, Andrea is a posh hippie with a rebellious heart who never looked forward to being subjected to scrutiny and having to maintain his composure for the mere fact of being a ‘prince’. Although they say that, before dying in 2005, his grandfather Raniero III of Monaco He resisted abdicating in favor of his son Alberto because the aforementioned had not yet married at that time, and even He seriously considered the possibility of making his eldest grandson his successor.since he was not very convinced that Alberto was capable of taking the reins of the Principality.
While still a teenager, Andrea had an affair with the German aristocrat Caroline Von Stauffenberg. And already in 2012, three years after his mother separated from Ernesto, the man from Monaco announced his engagement to one of his sister’s friends. Charlottethe heiress and fashion designer Tatiana Santo Domingo. The lovers married civilly in August 2013, which was followed by a religious ceremony held in 2014 in the Swiss city of Gstaad. More than one thinks that Tatiana is Carolina’s favorite daughter-in-lawwho sometimes wears her designs, and what is a fact is that she and Andrea have three children in common —Sasha (born 2013), India (2015) and Maximilian (2018)—and represent one of the most stable unions within that clan—which is not saying much when it comes to the Grimaldi.
Andrea’s angelic appearance and usual discretion always attracted the attention of the media, which has followed her steps since she made her first public intervention at the age of nineteen at the 43rd Monte Carlo International TV Festival. Having grown up in a multilingual environment, The 40-year-old prince speaks several languages fluently —French, Italian, English and German—, and his hobbies include reading, playing soccer, horseback riding, water sports, skiing and collecting quality clothing and Swatch watches. There is no lack of money to be able to pay for them, since, Although he has no known occupation, he is part of one of the richest royal families in Europe —In addition to the fact that he inherited a lot of money from his father, his own wife is the granddaughter of Panamanian magnate Julio Mario Santo Domingo and has a million-dollar fortune according to ‘Business Insider’—.
Quiet life
While her brother Pierre takes care of the Casiraghi real estate business, Andrea He usually participates every year in princely events such as the National Day of Monaco, and still dedicates part of his time to his philanthropic work. Today she spent eight months teaching disadvantaged children in Senegal, as part of her work in the World Association of Friends of Children (AMADE), founded in 1963 by her maternal grandmother and of which Carolina is president. .
Besides, Since 2007 he has been the main sponsor of the Motrice Foundation, dedicated to research and innovation in the field of cerebral palsy, and also collaborates with the Cerebral Palsy Foundation. In early 2023, He and his family changed London, where they had spent more than a decade, for the Swiss town of Saanenwhere the five enjoy a certain tranquility and anonymity.
