Charlotte Marie Pomeline Casiraghi was born at Monaco's Princess Grace Hospital to Princess Caroline and her second husband, Stefano Casiraghi on August 3, 1986.
When she was four years old her Italian industrialist father was killed in an accident after the powerboat he was in flipped over.
Distraught, her mother Princess Caroline moved the family to the village of Saint Remy-de-Provence in France where the children grew up protected from the inquisitive eyes of the press.
In January 1999, Charlotte's life changed again. After almost a decade without a paternal figure, she gained a stepfather when her mother married longtime family friend Prince Ernst of Hanover. Seven months later, a half-sister, Alexandra, was born at a clinic in Germany. The family then moved to the Parisian suburb of Fontainebleau, so Princess Caroline and her new husband would have a base closer to his German roots and his children from a previous marriage, who live in London with their mother Chantal.
Charlotte is fluent in French, Italian, English as well as speaking a smattering of German.
Charlotte hobbies include horses, skiing, snowboarding and swimming.
