Word: polignacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost forgotten Prince of Monaco, Pierre de Polignac, was greeted at Los Angeles' International Airport by his renowned son and ruler of the vest-pocket principality, Prince Rainier III. Prince Pierre had come to see Rainier's fiancee. Cinemactress Grace Kelly, and to help plan the April wedding strategy. Meanwhile, on a nearby movie set, Grace rested between scenes of her new film High Society, looking startlingly thin in an unflattering classic-cut bathing suit. Was this a new New Look? Roving U.P. Columnist Gloria Swanson thought so and hailed it. From Rome ex-Screen Siren Swanson cabled...
...Rainier's own time the path to the throne has been tortuous. Princess Charlotte, Rainier's mother, obtained a divorce from her husband, French Count Pierre de Polignac, in 1933, and renounced her rights to the throne in favor of her son Rainier. Later, Polignac attempted to kidnap his son, who was then a schoolboy in England, but doughty old Prince Louis won custody in a bitter battle in a London court, and Rainier remained the heir apparent. In 1949, three years after marrying an aging actress, Prince Louis died, leaving his 24 titles, his considerable bank account...