Word: monacans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...booted off Egypt's throne, ex-King Farouk, a puffy and myopic 39, moved a step farther from ever returning to Cairo in royal style. By special decree of Monaco's sympathetic Prince Rainier III, stateless Playboy Farouk, now a Monte Carlo sport, became a Monacan citizen...
...wanted was to take her son Lance, 19, to a reception given by Prince Rainier and his Grace to celebrate the baptism of their princeling, Albert-and some 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...
Last week a Monacan judge invited the three Californians to stay on in Monte Carlo for an all-expenses-paid vacation lasting from six months to one year. The view of the Mediterranean from the jailhouse is said to rival that from Princess Grace's own boudoir window...
...spring fought its balmy way across the land, mating calls rose. Margaret Truman announced that she and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., a Baptist like her daddy, will be married on April 21-midst un-Monacan simplicity-in a ceremony attended only by relatives and very close friends at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, where her parents were wed 36 years ago. Meanwhile, NBC's early-rising Televendor Dave (Today) Garroway, 42, decided to end a long spell of grass widowerhood (he was divorced in 1946) with TV Production Coordinator Pamela Wilde, 28. Glowed Garroway...
Washerwoman & Kaiser. The Monacan succession has been fairly tenuous in recent decades. Prince Albert I (1848-1922), an oceanographer of world renown, was the first prince of Monaco to marry an American pirl, New Orleans-born Alice Heine. Albert's son by an earlier marriage, Prince Louis II, caused a dynastic dither when, while serving as a lieutenant in a spahi regiment of the French army in North Africa, he met and married the pretty daughter of a washerwoman who, in due course, presented him with a daughter. Albert stonily refused to recognize his grandchild, and threatened to disinherit...