Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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French sentiment toward monarchies has eased noticeably over the past 200 years. So no heads turned, or fell, when the far-from-royalist President of France, Socialist François Mitterrand, 66, invited neighboring Monaco's Prince Rainier, 59, and his daughter Princess Caroline, 26, to the Elysée Palace for lunch. Caroline looked cheerful and radiant in what was her first official outing since the death of her mother Princess Grace last year. Monaco officials say she will be seen more and more at her father's side, assuming the ceremonial role that her mother once...
...phanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince Albert, 24, agreed to the removal of a life-support system. At week's end Stéphanie remained hospitalized with a damaged vertebra...
...clan. Her iron rule was to keep up appearances. There is no doubt that Grace learned much about the royalty trade from Margaret. In 1954 Grace had a serious affair with Designer Oleg Cassini, but against family wishes (he was divorced and not Catholic). Then, over Christmas of 1955, Rainier visited the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. The unlikely joining of clans was approved...
...least two pickpockets, posing as priests, clumsy enough to be arrested. Aristotle Onassis, who once mistook Grace for Gary Grant's secretary when she arrived for lunch on the shipping tycoon's yacht wearing hornrimmed spectacles, arranged for 15,000 carnations to be dumped on Rainier's yacht from a plane...
Everyone lived ever after. The press called it "a storybook romance," but it was more clearly a dynastic marriage of the kind traditionally made for good, practical reasons by European nobility. In Rainier's case, the practicality was not hard to see. Rainier's Grimaldi clan dates its ascendancy in Monaco from 1297, when his ancestor François the Cunning sneaked into the palace disguised as a monk. By a quirk of French law, Monaco's citizens would lose their tax and military exemptions if Rainier failed to produce an heir to the throne. What Grace...