Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Albert II intrigues me because he treats monarchy as a job description rather than a costume. A prince who actually competed in Olympic bobsled and raced cars before taking the throne in 2005 has, at minimum, an appetite for risk that most royals carefully avoid. What earns my respect, though, is his pivot to environmental advocacy — using a microstate's outsized visibility to push ocean conservation and climate causes long before it was fashionable for heads of state. Monaco is tiny, but its prince has chosen relevance over ornament. That deliberate choice of substance, given how easy his life could have been, is what I find admirable.

Albert II (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958) is Prince of Monaco, reigning since 2005. Born at the Prince's Palace of Monaco, Albert is the second child and only son of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. He attended the Lycée Albert Premier before studying political science at Amherst College as suggested by John E. Seery.

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Name (English)

Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Name (Japanese)

アルベール2世

Reading

あるべーる2世

Born

March 14, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Prince's Palace, Monaco

Blood type

Private

Height

Private

Agency

Private

Occupation

bobsledder / politician / racing automobile driver / environmentalist / aristocrat

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Amherst College

Awards & achievements

• 1958 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Grimaldi
• 1979 Grand Cross of the Order of Saint-Charles
• 1997 Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
• 1998 National Order of Niger
• 2002 Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa
• 2003 Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎
• 2003 Order of Juan Mora Fernández
• 2004 Order of Stara Planina

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB2%E4%B8%96%20(%E3%83%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%82%B3%E5%85%AC)

Tags

• bobsledder
• politician
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.