The confusion comes from the difference between succesion and inheritance (property, money, etc.) rights. Under the laws of both Monaco and France, illegitimate and legitimate children both share the same inheritance rights to the estate, so they would receive equally percentages of estate. However, only legitimate children are in line to the throne.
In most countries, illegitimate children can inherit personal property of the parents but not titles, therefore Albert’s little boy will be very well provided for.
QE2’s North African ancestry explains why you never see her shopping at Hermes. She can also trace her ancestry to Satan through her ancestress Melusine (of the Angevin dynasty).
There is some speculation that Zaida was the daughter of the Emir of Seville and that this was obfuscated by her descendants who did not want to be considered descendants of Muhammad while fighting Crusades. Her great-grandson Frederick II, one of the biggest thorns in the side of the Church of the Middle Ages (a truly bizarre and fascinating and brilliant if somewhat insane man) was the exception, definitely claiming descent from the Prophet when in negotiations with Arabs and even briefly considered converting to Islam. He also had Arab concubines. (F2 received more land from the Arabs by diplomacy than was ever taken militarily after the First Crusade; he was held in highest esteem by leaders from Antioch to Cairo, but his archenemy the Pope annulled the treaty and excommunicated him [with some reason on the latter].)
Who’s speculation are you basing this on? To the best of my knowledge, there is no good evidence that Zaida was not the daughter-in-law of the emir of Seville.
Zaida was the wife of Fath al-Mamun, the son of al-Mutamid, the emir of Seville. Her husband died in 1191, and as a gesture of goodwill, she was sent to the court of Alfonso VI of Castile. Alfonso was at that time battling against the incursions of the Almoravids (Berbers from Africa) who were threatening the Islamic dynasties of Spain, so she was meant to seal an alliance between the emir and the king. Because Islam specifically forbids marrying Muslim women to outsiders, the emir would NEVER have sent his own daughter to become a concubine to a Christian ruler. This would have been a terrible affront to his dignity. But a childless daughter-in-law? More likely.
Anyway, Zaida was baptised with the name Isabel, and she gave birth to a son named Sancho in 1093. Because Sancho was Alfonso’s only son, legitimate or otherwise, he passed a decree naming Sancho as his heir. However, Sancho died at the Battle of Uccles in 1108, so the point became moot. Now, the story becomes more complicated. Alfonso had married a woman named Elizabeth in 1100 – was she identical to Zaida/Isabel, Isabel being the Spanish version of Elizabeth? Perhaps. Strangely enough, Queen Elizabeth’s funerary inscription describes her as being the daughter of King Louis VI of France, but this doesn’t make sense for chronological reasons, and anyway, no contemporary source mentions such a prestigious marriage, which would be expected if the king of Castile were to marry a princess of France.
Whatever the truth, Queen Elizabeth was the mother of Alfonso’s daughters Sancha and Elvira. Elvira married King Roger II of Sicily and Sancha married Rodrigo de Lara. Neither of them had notable descendants – the Emperor Frederick II was not a descendant of Zaida, his grandmother was Roger II’s last wife, Beatrix of Rethel, NOT Elvira of Castile.
Check out Bernard Reilly’s “The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla under King Alfonso VI” (1988) for the sources of the above.