Although Princess Alexandra of Hanover is a member of the Monégasque royal family, she spent much of her early years growing up outside of Monaco. She was born in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, six months after her mother Princess Caroline and her father Prince Ernst August of Hanover were married.
Alexandra’s birth was a highly publicized affair and even led to a scuffle between her father and a photographer outside the hospital. “[Ernst] asked that [the paparazzi] not take his picture and when one of them refused to comply, Ernst tried to take his camera away,” biographer Jeffrey Robinson wrote in “Grace of Monaco: The True Story.”
After her birth in Austria, Alexandra was raised in Le Mée-sur-Seine, a small town about 25 miles outside of Paris, where she went to Lapierre public school. In 2009, Alexandra embraced her Monégasque roots by moving back to Monaco with her mother where she enrolled in the Institution François d’Assise–Nicolas Barré — a private Catholic school in the principality.
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