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At 23, Charlotte Casiraghi’s half-sister evolves in the shadow of the Monegasque princely family. The youngest daughter of Caroline of Monaco and Ernst August of Hanover, who lives between the Rock and New York, cultivates a very aristocratic reserve.
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Zoe Grandjacques
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At the last Rose Ball, on Saturday March 25, 2023, Alexandra of Hanover appeared alongside her mother and her three half-brothers and sister (Andrea, Charlotte and Pierre Casiraghi), all dressed in black. A stylistic sobriety, not without elegance, which suits the 23-year-old princess with a discreet private life.
Because if we regularly see her in the front row of fashion shows or alongside her mother, the princess Caroline of Monaco, the youngest of the princely siblings keeps away from the spotlight. Indeed, the girl declared in 2020 to the Spanish magazine Telva, want “a normal life”.
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Conversion to Catholicism
The daughter of Caroline of Monaco and Prince Ernst August of Hanover inherited dual monarchical status. Granddaughter of Prince Rainier III of Monaco and Grace Kelly, she is ranked tenth in the order of succession to the Principality’s throne. However, it is unlikely that she will ever be crowned. Indeed, Monegasque legislation provides for a total loss of his inheritance rights if a descendant of his uncle, Albert II, were to ascend the throne. A scenario practically recorded since the eldest son of the latter, Jacques, is the hereditary prince.
On her father’s side, the young woman descends from both Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Christian IX of Denmark. A filiation which also allowed him to occupy the 444th rank of succession to the British throne … until his conversion to Catholicism in 2018.
Skating and perfectionism
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But whatever the accession to the throne, the daughter of Caroline of Monaco does not seem to dream of a princely life. In her interview with Telva, she said that, although aware of her privileges, “she was not aware of her status as a princess”. Attached to the idea of merit, it is on the frozen ground of skating rinks that she reveals herself. Second in her category at the tenth Monaco Figure Skating Championship in March 2011, she says: “Sport is not concerned with knowing who you are or where you come from. You have to work as hard as the others”.
In this same interview, the only interview given to the press, she explained her attraction to this sport: “It may seem a little frivolous, skating also has this part of hyperaesthetics, of beauty of the spectacle.” On this subject, she evokes the practically academic research that she likes to do, before each competition to create a character and a scenography. And for the outfit, she adds: “I like fashion, so it’s an aspect that I haven’t neglected”.
Accustomed to parades
Indeed, like her mother from whom she admits to borrowing clothes, her passion for fashion and haute couture is well established. Seen in the four corners of the globe, in the front row of the parades of the big houses, she is regularly noticed in impeccable outfits. In July 2021, le magazines Vogue the second place in the ranking of the best dressed princesses.
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A passion she would like to pursue by “devoting herself to something related to art or fashion”.
a romance
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On the heart side, the young woman is in a relationship with the German Ben Sylvester Strautman, basketball player and DJ, whom she has known since she was 16 years old. No marriage in sight for the young couple who currently live at a distance, between London and New York.
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First of class
Princess Alexandra also turns out to be a bibliophile, a film buff and a music lover. A student of political science and philosophy at the prestigious Columbia University in New York, she notes on her GoodReads page her academic readings: Arendt, Barthes, Camus, Plato…. But the young woman is also interested in feminist writings of the second wave (The Independent Womanby Simone de Beauvoir), to Patti Smith and Jane Fonda, whose biographies she read, to contemporary French literature in the text, such as Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère, or the trilogy by Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games. In her interview, she quotes The Heart Catcher by JD Salinger and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera as his favorite books.
On this same occasion, she also evokes her musical and cinematographic tastes. She confesses: “My favorite decades in music and fashion are the 1950s and 60s, I even wanted to throw a themed party. Mad Men, but only my best friend, who is an avid movie buff, and I were motivated.” Asked about the Rolling Stones, she said she preferred Mick Jagger, before qualifying: “I admit that Anita Pallenberg (model and actress who was sometimes nicknamed the “sixth Stones” because of her love affairs with three of the group’s members, editor’s note) has a lot of style”. Unsuspected rock and roll tastes for a young princess who, since, has not given an interview, faithful to her unalterable reserve.