Albert Honoré Charles Grimaldi becomes Albert I,…
May 1889 CE
This same year in Paris, on October 30, he marries the Dowager Duchess de Richelieu, née Marie Alice Heine (1858–1925).
The American daughter of a New Orleans building contractor of German-Jewish descent, Alice Heine had married the Duc de Richelieu but had been widowed by age twenty-one and left with a young son, Armand.
Her marriage to Prince Albert proves an equal blessing for him and the tiny principality of Monaco, since Alice brings a strong business acumen, well in advance of her youth.
After helping to put her husband's principality on a sound financial footing, she will devote her energies to making Monaco one of Europe's great cultural centers, with an opera, theater, and a ballet under the direction of the famed Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev.
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