Louis Ducruet (32 years old) announced sad news on January 3, 2025. His paternal grandfather, Henri, died at 89 years old. “Goodbye my grandpa” writes the husband of Marie and father of Victoire (born April 4, 2023) and Constance (born December 2, 2024) in the caption of a black and white photo where we see the father of Daniel Ducruet (60 years old). Very discreet, the ex-husband of Stéphanie de Monaco has not yet reacted publicly to the death of his dad but we imagine the family being very united during this difficult mourning.
As a reminder, Daniel Ducruet was first the bodyguard of Stéphanie de Monaco before becoming her husband on July 1, 1995. They became parents of Louis born in 1992 and Pauline born in 1994. The couple divorced in 1996 after suspicions of Daniel's adultery. Now married to Kelly Marie Lancien since 2018, the father of Louis and Pauline welcomed a daughter named and aged 10, Linoué. For his part, Louis Ducruet also has a half-brother Michaël Ducruet, born in 1992 from the love of Martine Malbouvier and Daniel Ducruet, and two half-sisters: Camille Gottlieb, born in 1998, fruit of the love between Stéphanie de Monaco and Jean-Raymond Gottlieb.
Daniel Ducruet, a dad close to Louis and Pauline
Very close to Louis and Pauline, Daniel was also there for them during important events in their lives, notably the marriage of his son and the birth of his daughters or even Pauline's career as a fashion designer. Interviewed on the show Story broadcast on M6 in 2019, he confided how proud he was of them and how strange it was sometimes for a dad to see his daughter become a woman. “Since I was little, I didn't at all expect her to take the path she took today, she's a woman, I realize that we're talking about my daughter, that she grows up, she interests people and that's it, it's a slap in the face, she's a woman“.
Very moved when he became the grandfather of Constance and Victoire, his son's daughters, he “burst into tears” at the moment of their birth. “My father, an emotional person of the first category“, Louis confided about his dad.
