Louis Robert Paul Ducruet (born 26 November 1992) is the son of
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
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Monaco-Ville
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. His parents,
Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
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and Daniel Ducruet, were married in 1995, but divorced a year later. For a couple of years, he lived in Auron, France, then he moved with his mother and sisters to the Zurich area. After 2002, he and his mother and sisters returned to live in Monaco.
Ducruet attended primary school in
Auron Auron may refer to:
* Auron (comics), two fictional DC Comics superheroes
* Auron (ski resort)
* Auron (river) in central France, a tributary of the Yèvre
* Auron, a playable character in the Square role-playing game ''Final Fantasy X''
* One o ...
Sophia Antipolis
(wisdom), gr, (Ἀντίπολις, antipolis) ("opposite city" from its position on the opposite side of the Var estuary from Nice, also former name of Antibes, part of the technology park)
, postal_code = 06220 (Vallauris), 06250 (Mo ...
,
France
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. In 2015, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Sports Management at
Western Carolina University
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The fifth oldest institution of the sixteen four-year universities in the UNC system, WCU was founded ...
Immediately after secondary school, he took a summer job in the water sports department of Société des bains de mer de Monaco (SBM). He interned for
AS Monaco FC
Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club SA, commonly referred to as AS Monaco () or Monaco, is a professional football club based in Monaco that is member of French Football Federation (FFF) and competes in Ligue 1, the top tier of Frenc ...
and, after obtaining his degree, took a salaried position as an international recruiter. Early in 2019, he was promoted to Assistant to the Vice-President of the club, Vadim Vasilyev.
As of March 2016, Ducruet and his father, Daniel Ducruet, are co-managers of the Monaco-based company MONADECO.
In 2013, Ducruet participated in the "4L Trophy" automobile race. The race covered 6000 km, with starting points from Poitiers to
Nottingham Forest
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as an advisor for international projects.
Marriage and children
On 12 February 2018, Ducruet announced his engagement to long-time girlfriend, Marie Hoa Chevallier (born 28 December 1992), a Frenchwoman of
Vietnam
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ese descent. Ducruet and Chevallier met in their first year of ''
Grande école
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'' at the Skema Business School. Chevallier is a graduate of Skema, where she earned her Bachelor of Business Administration, and is specialized in French Education and Marketing from Western Carolina University. She has a career as event coordinator in luxury hospitality.
The civil wedding took place on 26 July 2019 at
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
town hall. The religious wedding took place on 27 July 2019 at Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate.
They are expecting their first child, a baby girl.