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...forced the postponement of the wedding because of their forecast that 1962 was "a black year" for the marriage. Thus Hope had to wait until last week to become the first American girl to wed royalty since the daughter of a former Philadelphia bricklayer married Monaco's Prince Rainier...
...slightly showier crowd, among them players such as Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer and Deborah Kerr, it is Klosters. And if the Greek fellow is named Stavros Niarchos and the other folk include the King and Queen of Thailand, Jordan's King Hussein and Monaco's Rainier and Grace, then, undoubtedly, the place is Gstaad, and-this year more than ever-it is The Place...
...time for the changing of the guard, which I'm sure you'll want to see, so I'll leave you now and see you later at the palace"). Grace in the orphanage, riding into the palace in her Rolls and being greeted by Rainier, Grace in the throne room, Rainier with the kids at the zoo, the whole family putting to sea in the yacht, the Prince and Princess entering the cathedral. And finally Princess Grace signing off with dignified warmth and a generous plug: "Now you've had a look at Monaco, but really...
...almost too slick. Director Douglas Heyes had occasional trouble compensating for Princess Grace's "adopted diplomatic accent: we tried to keep the pace of her speech up so she didn't sound too British." Offscreen, he combined formality with familiarity by addressing her as "Your Highness-honey." Rainier tended to be more relaxed about the whole thing. When Grace muttered her apprehensions about Princess Caroline going down to the zoo with a cold. Rainier quipped: "In that case let's get some other little brat-nobody will know the difference." Caroline went...
...taxes immediately set off a sharp drop in real estate prices. Though the roulette wheels will continue to turn at Monte Carlo, gambling provides only about 5% of Monaco's income. With the incentive gone for foreign businessmen to set up headquarters in Monaco, Prince Rainier's prosperous little fief faces a grey and grim future...