Her Serene Highness Princess Charlene has Irish roots

When Monaco’s reigning monarch Prince Albert married South African Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock in 2011, she was invariably referred to in the media as a commoner.

Now it looks as if Her Serene Highness is almost as posh as her husband — and with more Irish blood in her, too.

Research commissioned by Tourism Ireland and carried out by genealogy experts Eneclann revealed that Princess Charlene’s ancestors can be traced back to the 1520s and a prominent Dublin family called the Fagans.