Overview

• In a Point de Vue interview coinciding with Maison de Vie’s 15th anniversary, Stéphanie said she has "given enough and said all she had to say" and is prepared to retire from royal duties.
• She did not specify a date for her exit from public engagements and indicated that her philanthropic focus will guide her future activities.
• Stéphanie will continue to support Fight Aids Monaco, which she founded in 2004, and the Maison de Vie retreat in Carpentras for HIV-positive people.
• Known as the Grimaldi family’s rebellious figure, she ran a pop music career in the mid-1980s before dedicating herself to AIDS activism.
• She cited a need for greater privacy and more time for personal wellbeing and family as key motivations for her withdrawal.