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Pierre Casiraghi, who's seventh in line for Monaco's throne, married Beatrice Borromeo in a civil ceremony last weekend, but the party's far from over. The wedding will continue into next weekend, with a religious event and corresponding party on the luxurious Borromean Islands, owned by the bride's aristocratic Italian family. (Her father is a count.) While we're waiting for pictures from part deux of their nuptials, we thought it would be fun to take a look back at the more recent royal weddings of Monaco, starting with the groom's grandmother, Grace Kelly.
Beatrice wore a custom Valentino wedding dress for her civil ceremony.
Prince Rainier III & Grace Kelly
The American actress would give up life as she knew it after Prince Rainier III proposed with a 10.47 emerald-cut diamond in 1956. (Click here for a picture of Grace Kelly's engagement ring.) Grace and her family had to provide a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to go forward, which it did, with a wedding on April 19, 1956. The first of their three children, Princess Caroline—Pierre Casiraghi's mother—was born nine months and four days after her parents' wedding.
Princess Caroline & Philippe Junot__
View image | gettyimages.comThe princess married again in 1983, although not in a church, because the annulment of her previous marriage had not yet been granted. Still, she wed Stefano Casiraghi, heir to an Italian industrial fortune, in a civil ceremony on December 29. The couple had three children—Andrea, Charlotte, and Pierre—and remained married until a 30-year-old Stefano was killed in a boating accident 1990.
Princess Caroline & Ernst August
View image | gettyimages.comThe former South African swimmer met her prince at a swimming event in Monaco in 2000, but they wouldn't make their official debut as a couple until the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. The couple made headlines ahead of their 2011 wedding, when Charlene reportedly tried to flee to her native country ahead of the nuptials. They went on to marry though, first in a civil ceremony on July 1, followed by a religious ceremony on July 2. Wedding performers included the Eagles and French composer Jean-Michel Jarre. (Click here for a round-up of more commoners who married into royalty.)
Andrea Casiraghi & Tatiana Santo Domingo
Like his brother Pierre's, Andrea's wedding can't technically be called a "royal wedding," as he doesn't have a royal title—since the church didn't initially recognize his parents' marriage—but it's worth a mention. The oldest child of Princess Caroline and Stefano Casiraghi married heiress and socialite Tatiana Santo Domingo (reportedly the 847th wealthiest person in the world) in Monaco on August 13, 2013. Part two of their wedding, a religious ceremony, happened six months later in Gstaad, Switzerland, on February 1, 2014, and saw the bride wearing a fur cape into the church. (Hey, Switzerland in February.)
Here they are, sans capes, at last year's Monaco National Day Gala.