Overview
- Junot died on Jan. 8 in Madrid, according to an Instagram announcement by his daughter Victoria, who said he passed peacefully surrounded by family.
- He married Princess Caroline in Monaco in June 1978 in back-to-back civil and religious ceremonies before their divorce in 1980.
- Caroline’s parents, Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace, opposed the relationship and tried to disrupt it with trips to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands.
- The Catholic Church granted an annulment in 1992, and Pope John Paul II later recognized Caroline’s religious union with Stefano Casiraghi.
- Junot later married Nina Wendelboe-Larsen and had three children—Victoria, Isabelle, and Alexis—and he welcomed another daughter, Chloé, in 2005 with Helén Wendel.