Word: grimaldis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful Princess Grace, nee Kelly? The majority of the National Council wanted constitutional reforms and limits placed on the Prince's power-he is the only absolutist monarch left in Europe. The Prince, "thinking of my son" (Prince Albert, aged eleven months), and invoking the memory of his Grimaldi great-grandfather, Prince Albert I, was determined not to lose a single prerogative. When the council, which has only advisory powers, put pressure on the Prince by refusing to approve his $6,000,000 1959 budget, Rainier acted...
...palace flunkies had had the nerve to turn Lance away. Crossing her own little Rubicon, Norah Docker seized a paper Monacan flag used as a table decoration and hurled it to the floor. Word of the indignity soon burned the ears of Their Serene Highnesses, and swiftly came unserene Grimaldi revenge: Norah and her free-spending third husband, Sir Bernard, were banned from the tiny (½ sq. mi.) country, and their christening gifts were frostily returned by messenger. What's more, by a 1951 friendship treaty with France, Monaco could, and did, invoke its right to bar the Dockers...
...pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
...When Rainier retorted, "I will accept no limitations of my powers," there, for the moment, the matter rested, and all Monaco went back to listening for the great boom of the cannon on Monte Carlo's Le Rocher-21 rounds for a girl, 101 if the House of Grimaldi gets a male heir, which would doubly insure continued freedom from French income taxes...
Hearing that Columnist-TV Panelist Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen had ground out an inside story hinting that Princess Grace is once again in a Grimaldi way, Monaco's Prince Rainier III turned a trifle purple, then chuckled away the entire miscoop: "Where do people get these things? It's really a mean thing to report. It is mean because it is inaccurate...