Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stay just a couple of hours," said Grace's father, Millionaire John B. ("Jack") Kelly. "But he stayed and stayed and stayed." In the end the visitor formally asked Jack for his daughter's hand in marriage. Thus, three weeks after his arrival in the U.S., Prince Rainier III of Monaco found his dream girl...
...built himself. "Grace met him when she was on the French Riviera," confided the father of the bride. "She went there to make a picture called To Catch a Thief-and look what she came back with." Under the breathless guidance of an M-G-M pressagent, Grace and Rainier posed placidly for the photographers, answered the questions with aplomb-and an occasional assist from the family. When she was asked about her plans for a family, Grace colored prettily and let her mother answer for her: "I should say they will have lots of children." At first, Rainier accepted...
...that the champagne supply was rapidly being toasted away. Grace's plan for a big family was especially agreeable to the Monégasques, who felt that their Prince was closer to saving them from the dread fate of French taxes and military conscription that would result if Rainier died without a successor...
...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...
...With both an actress and an American among her recent predecessors, Princess-elect Kelly should have no difficulties with her royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George (Craig's Wife...