Word: rainier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pink stucco palace of Monaco, Princess Grace calmly awaited her second child, and Prince Rainier amused himself in the royal zoo. But behind the apparent serenity of Their Serene Highnesses, a serious political crisis lurked in the shadows. For the first time in the eight-year reign of the chubby Prince, the National Council (which is elected by Monaco's male citizens, has only advisory power) dared to challenge Rainier's status as Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that...
After dining with friends at one of France's best-known groaning boards, Maxim's in Paris, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, still sporting his summer crop of chin whiskers, and Princess Grace, radiantly pregnant, were all abeam. Grace's second child (all Monaco is praying for a boy) is duer in March. Next stopovers for the Grimaldis: London and then New York City...
Monaco's Prince Rainier left his small pond on the Mediterranean, journeyed to a bigger pool at Gstaad, Switzerland for a vacation with Princess Grace. There he alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
...sewing circle. Was she or wasn't she? "Spokesmen" and "usually well-informed sources" said she was. Then, from Monaco's palace press service, came the crusher: a "formal and categorical denial" that Princess Grace was expecting a second child. Cause of the tizzy: Prince Rainier, continuing the battle royal with reporters that began before his wedding, censored some deceptively tumescent shots of Grace taken last month aboard the U.S.S. Forrestal...
...champion, Columnist Elsa Maxwell, 73, gave bemused Roman newshawks a dazzling sample of her art. Of her erstwhile enemy, the Duchess of Windsor: "My friend again!" Of her erstwhile friend, Monaco's Princess Grace: "Don't talk to me about that girl!" Of Grace's Prince Rainier III: "He's stuffed with decorations and hot air! I disapprove of Grace's marriage to a man without spirit or personality!" Of Italy's Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida: "Too obvious and never really sexy." Of Sophia Loren: "Sexy, very sexy, all sexy, the sexiest on earth...