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Another Monaco Royal Health Crisis

Days after Prince Rainier's death, Monaco's royal family has another health crisis.

Princess Caroline's husband is in serious condition with an acute pancreas problem.

His office says Prince Ernst August of Hanover, 51, is "under constant care" after being hospitalized in intensive care earlier this week.

The prince is Caroline's third husband. Caroline's first husband was French banker and playboy Philippe Junot; they were married in 1978 and divorced in 1980. She then was married to Italian industrialist Stefano Casiraghi from 1983 until his death was in a power-boat racing accident in 1990.

August is a distant relative of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and great-grandson of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II.

She's the oldest of Rainier's three children with the former Grace Kelly, the American actress who died in 1982.

Rainier died Wednesday at 81. His funeral is scheduled for Friday. Caroline's brother, 47-year-old Albert, succeeded his father as the principality's new ruler.

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