The year 2025 begins in the most painful way for the family of Stéphanie de Monaco. In a story published on Instagram, his son, Louis Ducruet, announced the death of his grandfather. “Goodbye my grandpa,” he soberly wrote on a black and white photo of Henri Ducruet. A final tribute paid to the father of Daniel Ducruet whose funeral took place this Friday January 3, 2025 in the chapel of the Monaco cemetery. If Pauline has not spoken about the death of her grandfather, Princess Stéphanie’s two eldest children have always been very close to their paternal grandparents.
Louis and Pauline gathered around their grandmother Maguy
Their link with Henri Ducruet has always remained discreet, like the personality of Daniel’s father, but their grandmother Maguy has always occupied a very important place in their daily life. Last April, Pauline Ducruet took pleasure in posing alongside him in matching outfits for the needs of her brand, Alter Designs. Two months later, the young woman brought her entire family together for a photo shoot that highlighted her creations. “She is one of the only people, with mom, who knows everything, to whom I tell everything. She, dad and mom, the three, that’s my core.”, she confided in a documentary that was made for her. dedicated in 2019.
Maguy Ducruet is also a rock for Louis. When his first daughter Victoire was born, he paid her the most tender tribute by giving her the middle name of his dear grandmother. “It is traditional to give the first names of grandmothers and not those of great-grandmothers, so my mother (Princess Stéphanie, editor’s note) was a little angry when we told her, but my grandmother was at the same time. angels.”, he revealed at the time in the columns of Point of viewJanuary 3, 2024. Maguy Ducruet is also very present in the life of her great-granddaughter. “My grandmother asks a lot to see Victoire, to participate in activities with her. Often, on weekends, we go for walks with her around her home,” he says again. Family happiness has increased tenfold since December 2, the date on which Louis Ducruet and his wife Marie welcomed their second child, a second daughter named Constance. Enough to soften the pain of this very united clan which has just said goodbye to one of its pillars.
