PALM DESERT, Calif. -- This desert oasis that has long been home to presidents and movie stars now has a touch of royalty.

Her name is Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, and she is the 14-year-old out-of-wedlock daughter of Monaco's Prince Albert II and a California woman who reportedly worked as a waitress.

If it sounds like the plot of a Disney movie, it is -- almost.

Unlike the fictional Mia of ``The Princess Diaries," Jazmin won't face the painful decision of whether to take the throne of the 700-year-old dynasty. The royal family of the tiny principality recognized her yesterday but said she will not be in line to the throne.

Her life quickly took on the trappings of royalty, including the hordes of paparazzi, after word came from Europe that Albert acknowledged that he was the teenager's father.

Photographers and reporters converged on Palm Desert and watched from across the street at St. Margaret's Episcopal School, where she has been an honor student, and the world media sought details about her and her mother, Tamara Rotolo, 44.

But Jazmin and her mother were nowhere in sight, and police warned a reporter and photographer that they would be arrested if they set foot on school property. A bodyguard kept watch .

The community two hours east of Los Angeles also responded protectively. ``Leave that poor girl alone!" a woman yelled from a car stopped at a traffic light.

The area, which includes the towns of Palm Springs, Indian Wells, and Rancho Mirage, has long been a playground or retirement area for the rich and heads of state, including former Presidents Eisenhower, Ford and Reagan. Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and other stars used to golf or party in the area.

Confirmation that Albert was Jazmin's father followed years of rumors about a daughter, and Albert's acknowledgment in July that he fathered a boy out of wedlock by a former flight attendant from Togo.

French media reports said the never-married 48-year-old prince had a romance with the girl's mother in 1991 when she vacationed on the Cote d'Azur in the south of France. The girl's March 4, 1992, Riverside County birth certificate identified the father as Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi of Monaco.

The French media reported that Tamara Rotolo is a former waitress. But she apparently now works in real estate.

The prince, who is the son of Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly and has a personal fortune estimated at $1 billion, made the public acknowledgment of the girl through his lawyer, Thierry Lacoste. Albert ``officially recognizes a paternity that was legally established a few weeks ago," Lacoste said in an interview published yesterday in France's Le Figaro.

Albert initially planned to keep his parentage of Jazmin secret until she reached adulthood, but ``the situation had become untenable for her" in recent weeks amid increasing speculation, Lacoste said.

Albert's other child, 3-year-old Alexandre, is not in line for the throne either.

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