Word: grimaldis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, is poorly represented --there are also some startling moments. It would be difficult to find a clearer or fresher Canaletto than his view of the Thames from Richmond House, for instance, or a more precocious early Rubens than his enormous, little- known portrait of the Marchesa Caterina Grimaldi from Kingston Lacy, or such a drop-dead showpiece of neoclassical metalwork as John Flaxman's silver- gilt Shield of Achilles, based on Homer's description of the "wonderful shield" wrought by Hephaestus in the Iliad...
Having replaced her late mother at the helm of Monaco's Girl Scouts, Princess Caroline, 26, welcomed a respite from the grown-up pressures that accompany most official duties. She and 56 other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Château de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like...
...example, rumors surfaced of a September wedding between Monaco's Princess Caroline, 26, and Robertino Rossellini, 33, the son of Ingrid Bergman and Film Maker Roberto Rosseilini. No sooner said than scotched. "If ever she decides to marry, the announcement will come from the palace," chilled the Grimaldi press representative. Though the pair are clearly a couple, a nuptial announcement does seem some time off. Caroline was granted a divorce from Eurolizard Philippe Junot in 1980, but her application to the Vatican for an official annulment must be granted before a second marriage would be recognized in the eyes...
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...