Prince Rainier Grimaldi



Son Altesse Sérénissime le Prince Rainier III

Sunday, April 17, 2005

Born in 1923 to Prince Pierre and Princess Charlotte, Rainier was six years old when his parents divorced, and he and his sister Antoinette spent most of the early part of their lives in boarding schools.


Rainier & Antoinette


His father, Prince Pierre, assumed responsibility for his son’s education, sending him to Summerfield English preparatory school in Hastings (St Leonard on sea) There he was the only foreing boy among 560 pupils and he was sneered at as "fat little Monaco".



Later on, he was sent to the prestigious British public school Stowe College.


Like King Baudouin of the Belgians and the Aga Khan, Rainier completed his sixth-form studies in the Swiss finishing school of Le Rosey.



This was followed by stints at university – first at Montpellier,



then Paris, where he studied Political Sciences.

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