Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Norway's Crown Prince Harald and Princess Sonja will explore Leif Ericson's land in June; earlier the same month, Spain's new King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia will visit President Ford in Washington; so, commemorating 1776 not 1812, will Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace will be in New York for Independence...
...Dutch royal house. In Spain, as Juan Carlos stumps the boondocks as tirelessly as a Castilian Jimmy Carter, the young King's every word and move merit Delphic scrutiny. Britain's Prince Charles dates a new girl, and her bloodline is examined as closely as a yearling filly's. Monaco's 19-year-old Princess Caroline keeps squads of paparazzi employed...
...Serene Highness Prince Rainier III of Monaco (he has 23 other titles) reigns over Monaco's 467 acres with, of course, Princess Grace of Philadelphia and Hollywood. Grace, 46, spends most of the week at the family's residence in Paris, where Princess Caroline, a bright, outgoing, levelheaded beauty, attends the Sorbonne, and Sister Stephanie, 11, goes to private school. Rainier, meanwhile, devotes full time to affairs of state, which include going to all Monacan soccer games, usually with Son Prince Albert, 18. A 1918 treaty provides that Monaco will become a French protectorate when the Grimaldi dynasty runs...
Recognizing the glamour of Grand Prix and hoping it would somehow rub off on Long Beach, city fathers and race promoters three years ago began organizing a Monaco-style race through the city streets. There were a few problems, of course. Long Beach harbors seldom entice millionaires' yachts, and the local royalty consists entirely of wax dummies aboard the Queen Mary museum. But Grand Prix supporters predicted that the challenging 2.02-mile circuit designed by former Grand Prix Winner Dan Gurney and a $265,000 prize purse would offset the deficiencies...
...Sunday the King presided over an official public state funeral, which was attended by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, Jordan's King Hussein, and Monaco's Prince Rainier. Like the rest of the week's solemn pageantry, the details had been planned well in advance−many of them by Franco himself. After the funeral Mass in Madrid's packed Plaza de Oriente, his coffin was escorted from the palace by the red-bereted Guardia del Generalisimo, marching on each side of the casket, to the Arch of Victory a mile away. There...