Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seldom is there a quiet moment in the clan of Windsor, whose comings and goings never cease to delight the subjects of their tiny sceptered isle. But last week's escapade was a doozy by any royal standard. Within days after Prince Andrew's celebrated return from his tour of duty in the Falklands aboard the carrier Invincible, he plans a well-deserved rest. Ah, but not alone. Andrew, 22, and a winsome lass named Koo Stark, 25, head off for the Caribbean island of Mustique and the house once used as a trysting hideaway by Princess Margaret...
This climate leaves the clan vulnerable to the tragedy which follows. When the Montellis sit down for their first dinner, the spirits get right down to mischievous business, knocking a mirror off the wall. Dad's first instinct is to smash the eldest son Sonny (Jack Manger) for doing a sloppy job at hanging...
...Princess' mother Margaret, who gave up modeling (for magazines like Country Gentleman) after commencing her not very happy marriage to John Sr., was the unquestioned monarch of the Kelly 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...
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...
What had happened? Practically everybody agreed that the gunmen were right-wing Lebanese Christian militiamen, and were either from the Lebanese Forces led by the vengeance-bent Gemayel clan or from the militia run by Major Sa'ad Haddad, which is based in southern Lebanon and is closely alh'ed with the Israelis. The Lebanese Forces would be the more logical culprits, since they live in the region and were in mourning for their fallen leader. On the other hand, there were reports that a group of Haddad's men were seen in the vicinity of the camps...