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Boisson was not the only civil functionary to get the boot last week. In a surprise morning broadcast to his people, sandwiched in between the commercials and the canned music on Radio Monte Carlo, Prince Rainier III "temporarily" suspended Monaco's constitution and fired both the 18-man National Council and the Municipal Council. The 3,000 citizens and 18,000 foreign residents of the park-sized, 370-acre principality were warned that "public meetings of a political character" were banned...
What had gone wrong in the sun-drenched paradise (no income taxes, no military service) ruled by Rainier and his beautiful Princess Grace, nee Kelly? The majority of the National Council wanted constitutional reforms and limits placed on the Prince's power-he is the only absolutist monarch left in Europe. The Prince, "thinking of my son" (Prince Albert, aged eleven months), and invoking the memory of his Grimaldi great-grandfather, Prince Albert I, was determined not to lose a single prerogative. When the council, which has only advisory powers, put pressure on the Prince by refusing to approve...
...etat" and there were rumors that the councilmen might meet in secret on French soil, Monegasques were neither rushing to the barricades nor fleeing to the border-a ten-minute walk from almost anywhere in Monaco. The 58-man army did not spring to arms, and Prince Rainier soothed his subjects by promising women the vote in national elections, a project dear to the heart of his U.S.-born wife...
Down deep, Monaco's blonde, serene Princess Grace is still just one of the girls. On a trip to Europe, reported strapping Olympic Sculler Champion Jack Kelly, he and some 22 of his crewmates dropped in on Sis and husband Prince Rainier, who put the crew up for the night, cheerfully hosted a hamburger broil, guzzled beer from the bottle with the boys. "She's still the same girl, a little more domesticated, but she fits in all right," reported Jack. "Her only trouble is that she doesn't speak French so well, but her husband speaks...
...autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement to Grace Kelly. Without a thought that she could have been an honored guest at the ball, Tebaldi went over to the Waldorf lobby, settled herself in a chair and sat there wide-eyed, waiting to see Grace and the prince sweep...