This desert oasis that has long been home to presidents and movie stars now has a touch of royalty.

Security personnel escorts student Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, the 14-year-old out-of-wedlock daughter of Monaco's Prince Albert II , outside St. Margaret's Episcopal school in Palm Desert, Calif., Thursday, June 1, 2006. Jazmin is the second out-of-wedlock child to be legally acknowledged by the 48-year-old bachelor prince who assumed the throne of the 700-year-old dynasty less than a year ago. [AP]

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 will not 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 Thursday but said she will not be in line to the throne. Monaco's constitution requires parents of heirs to the throne to be married.

Her life quickly took on the trappings of royalty _ namely, 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.

Police warned a reporter and photographer they would be arrested if they set foot on school property, and a bodyguard kept watch after classes began.

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.

Finally, at the end of the school day, a ponytailed blond girl in a school uniform was escorted to an armored Lincoln Navigator.

The girl did not respond to reporters' shouted questions and left, seated in the back of the SUV with two bodyguards up front, escorted by two sheriff's deputies on motorcycles.

The same SUV was later seen leaving a gated country club and resort community with waterfalls and lush landscaping. A security guard turned away a reporter requesting to visit Rotolo.

Confirmation that Albert was Jazmin's father followed years of rumors about a daughter, and Albert's acknowledgment last 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 fling 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, 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. State records show that a Tamara Jean Rotolo is a salesperson at a realty firm in Palm Desert.

Court records show Rotolo was married on January 31, 1987, to David Shumaker and they separated on April 15, 1989. Shumaker filed for divorce on September 13, 1991, citing irreconcilable differences. It was uncontested and there were no spousal support issues. The divorce was finalized in 1992.

Tidbits about Jazmin's life had already made the local paper five times in the years before she became a celebrity. The Desert Sun of Palm Springs reported she was a soloist in the school choir that performed with Barry Manilow. She was also an honor student, science fair winner and student of the month.

Patricia Rotolo, who identified herself as Tamara Rotolo's cousin, talked to the Desert Sun on Tuesday. "All's been handled really well for (the child's) sake," she said.

The prince, who is the son of Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly, 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 Thursday 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 about her father, Lacoste said.

Lacoste said Jazmin was welcome in Monaco but cannot take the throne, and the royal family does not recognize her use of the Grimaldi name.

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

Monaco's royal palace refused to comment on the "private affairs of the prince."

According to court records, Rotolo filed a paternity suit seeking child support from Albert in 1991 and a decade later sued her own lawyers, claiming they failed to inform her the paternity suit needed to have been filed in Monaco before 1994 to preserve her rights.

Rotolo's father, Sam Rotolo, 75, said the family has known since Jazmin was born that she was the prince's child. He said that Albert has provided financial support.

The retired autoworker said his daughter, Tamara, was raised in his middle-class home. Her mother died in 2002, he said.

"She's a wonderful, young woman," Sam Rotolo said.

Associated Press Writers Jordan Robertson in Fremont and Christina Almeida in Los Angeles, and AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch in Palm Desert contributed to this report.