Alice Heine

Alice Heine , styled HSH The Princess of Monaco, and also The Duchess of Richelieu, was the Americanborn second wife of Prince Albert I of Monaco, a greatgrandfather of Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and greatgreat grandfather of reigning prince Albert II of Monaco. Marcel Proust used her as a model for the Princesse de Luxembourg in In Search of Lost Time. Her first husband was the Duke de Richelieu and one of the titles of her second husband was the Duke de Mazarin she was thus unique in bearing the titles of both Cardinal Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin.

She was born Marie Alice Heine at 900 Rue Royale, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her French father, Michel Heine, was a scion of a prominent Germanrooted Berlin and Paris banking Jewish family. His brother was Armand Heine, and both were cousins of poet Heinrich Heine. He was born in Bordeaux, France, and moved to New Orleans in 1843, and become a successful financier and realestate developer. Her mother was Amlie Marie Cleste Miltenberger, daughter of Joseph Alphonse Miltenberger, an architect of French Alsatian descent her family had built three interconnected Miltenberger mansions on Rue Royale.

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