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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...
SEPARATED. Caroline Grimaldi Junot, 23, princess of Monaco; and Philippe Junot, 40, self-described real estate entrepreneur; after two years of marriage, no children; in Monaco, where a palace spokesman made the announcement after Junot had been seen vacationing in Turkey with a comely companion he described as his secretary. Said Junot: "Everything is finished between Caroline and me. We are both free to do as we want...
When it was all over, the newlyweds successfully escaped from the palace undetected and were whisked away to a honeymoon site that Junot had cleverly kept secret from everyone, including Caroline. And so, as the left-wing French newspaper Le Matin headlined the story, "Caroline Grimaldi, whose father carried 17 titles, will become Mme. Junot. What a victory for democracy!" Or for love...
MONACO is FOR LOVERS say the T shirts hawked on the boulevards of Monte Carlo. But this week the tiny principality on France's Mediterranean coast was strictly for the paparazzi. While Princess Caroline, 21, prepared to wed Philippe Junot, 38, in the chapel of the Grimaldi family palace, reporters from all over the world were feverishly plotting their assault on a ceremony that the parents of the bride had vowed to keep private. The National Enquirer, the Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. There...
...rare American stage appearance, Princess Grace Grimaldi of Monaco, accompanied by Richard Pasco of the Royal Shakespeare Company, gave a reading of poetry and prose last night at the Loeb Drama Center...