Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wore white gloves and a smile of innocent wickedness as she wheeled the little blue convertible around the cliffside curves above Monaco. For the right man, the elegant smile hinted, she might take the gloves off. She had been driving much too fast, because it had been necessary to outdistance the police, and Gary Grant, the reformed jewel thief sitting beside her, looked ill. But he perked up when she parked at a turnoff and produced a cold chicken picnic lunch...
...actress played high comedy better than Grace Kelly during the six years (1951-56) that her film career flared so beguilingly, and what fascinated the groundlings was that she seemed to be living the roles as well. Last week, 28 years after she met Prince Rainier of Monaco during the filming of Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief, and 26 years after she gave up acting to marry him and become the reigning Princess of his 467-acre tax haven and gambling oasis, she came to the poignant and unexpected end of an astonishing script...
Apparently because she suffered a stroke, she lost control of her car on a hairpin turn in France above Monaco. The 1972 Rover fell 40 yds. down a steep hillside and caught fire. A resident extinguished the fire and pulled Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed...
...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 got, in addition...
...turned to the driver and asked him in broken French if he had ever driven Princess Grace in his taxi. He replied in good English that he had once, two years earlier. "Was she nice to you?" I asked. "Yes, she was nice," he said. "In Monaco, we love her." I said jokingly, "It's hard for us to think of her as a princess," trying to demonstrate a healthy American contempt for royalty. But I couldn't help enjoying the warm rush of pride that swept over me as I added. "She's just a girl from Philadelphia...