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You may verify the rule for yourself. I provided a link to the Journal de Monaco, the official gazette of the Monegasque government, with the text of the house law as it was enacted in 2015. Here is the link again.
https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/Jou...2015-portant-statuts-de-la-Famille-Souveraine
As mentioned above, the current house law was promulgated in 2015. But the same rule was indeed in place when they married, as it was included in the previous house law. Before 2015, it read:
https://www.heraldica.org/topics/national/monaco.htm#house_laws
Aucun Membre de la Famille Souveraine ne peut se marier sans l'autorisation du Prince régnant. Le mariage contracté sans cette autorisation emporte privation de tout droit à la Couronne, tant pour celui qui a contracté ce mariage que pour ses descendants.
Néanmoins, en cas de dissolution du mariage et en l'absence d'enfant issu de ce dernier, l'héritier qui l'aurait contracté recouvrera son droit à la Couronne si aucune succession n'est intervenue entretemps.
Translation:
No member of the Sovereign Family can marry without the authorization of the reigning Prince. A marriage contracted without such authorization results in a loss of all rights to the Crown for the individual who contracted the marriage as well as for his descendants.
However, in case of dissolution of the marriage and in the absence of any issue from it, the heir who had contracted that marriage shall recover his right to the Crown if no succession took place in the meantime.
I personally do not know whether Princess Caroline and Princess Stéphanie obtained the then Reigning Prince's legal authorization for each of their marriages. If you have a source indicating whether they married with or without (official) permission, could you please share it?
We can assume that Princess Caroline is currently in line to the throne: She was referred to by the Palace as Hereditary Princess for the first few years of her brother's reign. Therefore, she must have obtained permission for at least her marriages to Stefano Casiraghi and Ernst August von Hannover.
It is possible that she could have married Philippe Junot without permission: see the stipulation in the rule (quoted above) that succession rights are restored upon divorce if there are no chidren from the marriage. However, I have no idea if that was the case.
Not since they married without seeking permission (assuming that was indeed what the interview with Prince Albert II said and there was no mistranslation).
Thank you for the explanations. I must admit I did not know much about it because details like that have never been published in any articles of the papers (quite in contrast to rules concerning the BRF).
In view of their rules I guess that all members who are in line had asked for permission to marry unless they didn't want to be in the line of succession any longer.