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Condon's 15th novel is a brittle comedy of bad manners. His prince is a dissolute leech on the public treasury who agrees to marry his German cousin only because Parliament will then begin to cover his royal debts. After meeting his intended, the prince whines that he is "going to have to live with that smelly thing for the rest of my life." In a characteristic gesture, he appoints his current mistress as Caroline's lady of the bedchamber. For her part, Caroline quickly takes the cut of the prince's jib and calls...
...survived the questions about my parents, grandparents and place of residence pretty well, and pulled off a real coup when I told him I had a cousin in the IRA. I thought I had him aced until he popped The Question...
Some mobster money ends up in the pockets of the high-priced lawyers who keep them out of jail. Carlo Gambino's cousin Joseph Gambino...
...serving out time on a rock-pile island outpost. As their 25th anniversary approaches, they have perfected the purest hatred for each other. Like the most passionately obsessed lovers, they live in a universe where nobody else exists. The only other character in the play, the wife's cousin, who introduced them, serves merely as a catalyst to their anti-chemistry...
...Cousin Georgina has married her marquis, and Hudson the butler lets down his Scottish reserve long enough to marry Mrs. Bridges. It took him 27 years to pop the question or, as experienced in the lives of millions of U.S. onlookers, some 55 hours of television viewing. However measured, they were exactly what Hudson called them: "Stirring times...