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Royal wedding bells are ringing in the small European city-state of Monaco — again!
Monaco’s Princess Stéphanie — the youngest daughter of Princess Grace — celebrated the nuptials of her son Louis Ducruet, 26, and his fiancée Marie Chevallier. The college sweethearts also have an American tie: they both studied abroad at Western Carolina University in North Carolina, reported Instyle.
The wedding follows the recent nuptials of Louis’ cousin, Charlotte Casiraghi, who wed her longtime love Dimitri Rassam in two ceremonies last month.
PHOTO: INSTAGRAM/LOUIS DUCRUETLouis and Marie have recently wed in private civil ceremony in the salons of the Prince’s Palace, according to sources. They then had a larger religious service and a mostly private reception over the weekend. Though he does not formally hold title, Louis, the eldest of Stéphanie’s three children and nephew of Prince Albert II, is currently 15th in line of succession.
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The couple are the first of Monaco's royal family to wed in principality’s Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate (also known as St. Nicholas Cathedral) since the historic wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier II in 1956.
PHOTO: PINTERESTLouis — whose father is Princess Stéphanie’s first husband, royal bodyguard Daniel Ducruet — works for the professional soccer team Monaco AS as its chief recruiter. Marie is an events project planner for the principality’s hotel and casino operator, SBM.
The couple announced their engagement in February 2018, and have been together since meeting in 2011 at a Cannes nightclub and discovering they were classmates at a nearby business college. Both have described it as “love at first sight.”
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