Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have talked off and on for years about introducing democratic reforms in their sunny land, which has no income taxes and no military service, the legislative council has never been anything more than a docile advisory body. Then, in February, the councilors unanimously passed a motion of censure against Rainier's French Minister of State, the luxury-loving Henry Soum. Just why they objected to the minister so, they never made quite clear, but they nevertheless demanded that he be fired. The Prince refused. He also rejected a resolution which, though couched in almost obsequious language, was actually...
...only had Princess Grace given birth to a son and heir in March, but Monaco had enjoyed its headiest and gayest season since the war. Yet for His Serene Highness, Prince Rainier III, 35, it was a time of continual vexation. Ever since the new 18-man legislative council took office in January, the prerogatives of Europe's last absolute monarch had come under serious question...
Britain's wealthy, mink-loving Lady Docker, her temper bubbling to a boil, sat in Monaco's overstuffed Hotel de Paris and mulled over the insult: all she 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...
From Fort Antoine, a 47-mm. cannon boomed the first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
Born. To Princess Grace of Monaco, 28, and Prince Rainier, 34: their second child, first son; in Monaco. Name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. Weight: 8 Ibs. 12 oz. (see PEOPLE...