This Tuesday, May 6, it was a hard day in the palace, specifically, in the Monaco Principality. He Prince Alberto Now he has just known about a news that has left him devastated. The Principality is mourning after knowing a death that as they say in the magazine Lectures, “has plunged him into a deep sadness “. Whose? Of an intimate friend of the sovereign, Dr. Michel-Yves Mouroou, at 81a loss that has generated enormous shock in Monaco.
It is an eminent radiologist and former head of the Department of Radiology of the Princess Grace Hospital until he retired in 2009. Due to his curriculum, he was appointed in the Crown Council in 2003, becoming its president just 2009, a position he held until nine later, in 2018, When Alberto appointed him private advisor. Therefore, he was a person closely linked to both the prince and his closest family. As soon as this loss has been known, since the Principality they have not taken long to issue a sense reported on behalf of Prince Alberto: “Es with deep sadness that Prince Alberto II has received the news of the death of Dr. Michel-Yves Mouroou. Pay tribute to the memory of a man dedicated to the Principality, who distinguished himself by the constancy and quality of his commitment to the service of his fellow citizens. “
“For 15 years for the crown he contributed his powers, his discernment and his faithfulness to the Monegasque institutions. He was a man who left a mark on parliamentary works and in the legislative development of the Principality“. Prince Alberto, especially computed and touched, wanted to express in the first person how he always showed him “of a deep sense of ethics and duty. In this moment of mourning, Prince Alberto II expresses his family, his relatives and all who knew him and appreciated him, his most sincere pésames and the expression of his felt compassion. “
The deceased, beyond Prince Alberto, also had a special Link with the prince’s sisters, the princesses Carolina and Estefania, as well as with their respective children: “Today, they all cry the loss of a man who was able to keep his greatest secrets until his death. “ In fact, Mouroou even wrote a book The year 2010 about the princesses, a novel in which he talked about them and the rest of the illustrious women of the Monegasca royalty, such as Princess Grace, which on the cover appears with a spectacular red dress, jewelry and hair collected in a braid: “”Iron ladies or martyrs, passionate lovers or solicitous mothers, these women have contributed, for more than seven centuries, to the influence of the Principality and the Grimaldi dynasty with their princes. From Santa Devota to the current princesses, Carolina and Estefanía, daughters of the legendary Princess Grace, it is a gallery of captivating and endearing portraits that parade, with simplicity and authenticity on these pages. ” A book that has now become a collector’s object.
Rest in peace.