rumors of a secret love child have
plagued pretty much every royal family
we're not going to deal in rumor and
gossip here but rather publicly
acknowledged children born to royalty
here are some Royals we know for sure
have secret love children Mark Phillips
married Princess Anne in 1973 but after
an affair with New Zealand art teacher
had the tonkin his daughter Felicity
Tonkin was born in 1985 according to the
Telegraph Phillips was only confirmed as
her father in 1991 following a DNA test
during a paternity suit that would make
Felicity the half-sister of Olympic
medalist Zara Tyndall according to the
Daily Mail Phillips allegedly pressured
Felicity's mother into having an
abortion
but after she refused Phillips started
paying her approximately seven and a
half thousand dollars a year however
after Phillips reportedly said he didn't
want to be named on the birth
certificate and started slacking on
payments lawyers got involved Heather
told the tabloid I am doing what I am
doing for my child I hope and pray mark
will do the right thing and make a
proper and legally binding settlement on
her I wish I could wake up one morning
in the knowledge that the record had
been put straight and I don't have to
worry anymore now known as Felicity Wade
Phillips his daughter is an equine vet
and welcomed a son with her husband in
2017 the son of Prince Rainier the third
and Hollywood icon Grace Kelly Prince
Albert ii of monaco has a long history
of dating famous women given his track
record of playing the field the law of
averages dictates that albert would have
a love child well he has two the first
is Jasmin grace Grimaldi who Albert
formally acknowledged was his daughter
in 2006 when Grimaldi was a teen raised
in California Grimaldi made the trek to
Monaco when she was 11 to meet Albert
for the first time
me
a princess shut up she told Harper's
Bazaar I wanted that moment to connect
with my father to get to know him and to
have him get to know me it's wonderful
that it happened when it did and we've
been enjoying a great relationship ever
since the second is Alexander Kosta born
in 2002 to a French Togolese former
flight attendant who Albert met on Air
France in 1997 after demanding a DNA
test in 2005 Albert acknowledged the
child was his
however the boy's mother Nicole Kosta
claims Albert is an absentee father
since he married Olympic swimmer
Charlene Wittstock in 2011 Princess
Alexandra's daughter and Queen Elizabeth
the seconds first cousin marina Ogilvy
shocked the royal family when she
announced her pregnancy out of wedlock
with photographer Paul Julien mullets
child in 1989 her father Sir Angus
Ogilvie wasn't exactly thrilled marina
told today dad said there hadn't been an
illegitimate birth in the royal family
for 150 years when I said to him look I
am your daughter what comes first Queen
and country
or your daughter he said Queen and
country the couple eventually married in
February 1990 and their daughter is
Anushka Mei Mao it was born later that
summer while it might have been a rocky
starts things seemed to have settled
down a bit since the new scre has been
spotted with her royal family on a few
occasions Prince Bernhard of the
Netherlands already had an adult
illegitimate daughter living in France
at the time of his death in 2004 but
according to the Telegraph the monarch
admitted to having a second illegitimate
daughter in an interview released after
his death he told a dutch newspaper it
doesn't matter if people think back on
me is a nice guy or philanderer if the
image is that I was a scoundrel now and
again I'll give people that but it would
trouble me if people think he was no
good the Prince claimed that the
illegitimate daughter
Alisha quote was fathered during a major
crisis in his marriage with Juliana who
had fallen under the influence of a
faith healer called grete Hoffman's he
also requested that Alisha be left alone
which probably wasn't what happened when
the world found out
she'd secretly been royalty for five
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