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Charlotte Casiraghi: The Pippa Middleton of Monaco?

Princess Charlotte Casiraghi arrives for a dinner after the religious wedding ceremony of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco on July 2, 2011, in Monaco. Getty

(CBS) Charlotte Casiraghi turned so many heads at the weekend wedding of her uncle, Prince Albert II of Monaco, that one royal watcher dubbed her "the Pippa Middleton of Monaco."

The 24-year-old royal is the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco and Italian industrial Stefano Casiraghi. Her father died in a speedboat accident when she was 4.

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She has been featured numerous times on lists of beautiful royals, best-dressed women and most eligible bachelorettes.

She was born in Monaco, but has lived outside Paris since her mother remarried to Prince Ernst of Hanover

A published writer and an accomplished equestrian, Casiraghi has an older brother, a younger brother and a younger stepsister. She is fourth in line for the Monaco throne.

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