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...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 and his principality to Rainier...
...paintbrush adorned a wall with a slogan offensive to the Governor. Such scenes at police headquarters suggest a boys' game gone terribly wrong- the young, pink-faced British soldier looks almost as scared as the culprit he drags in, squirming and nauseated with fear. This criminal is a schoolboy of 14; the message he painted was "Harding come down from your helicopter." The punishment for the boy's crime: three months in prison...
...patriotic duty. Its symbol was the Emperor, who was not actually worshiped (though his ancestors were), but revered for his divine descent and the heavenly sanction of his rule. The Emperor's picture in government buildings was an object of veneration; a classic tradition tells of a schoolboy who, when his school caught fire, rolled up the picture, slashed open his belly, thrust it inside and struggled through the flames to die a hero's death outside. Even as late as 1927, some Japanese followed the old custom of suicide when the Emperor died...
...nurse took him away, and his mother and family do not seem to have bothered to ask for him back for three years. An uncle put him through Trinity College and he seems to have sulked his way to bad marks and a "courtesy degree." As a schoolboy, he had once spent one and sixpence for a horse on its way to the slaughterhouse. He wanted the glory of riding it through Kilkenny town. It fell dead beneath him. Pride and its fall became the pattern of his life...
...unhealthy place for growing boys, so at five he was boarded out in the home of a retired naval officer at Southsea, England. He was sent to the United Services College, and in Stalky & Co. wrote about it in one of the few procane, anti-self-pity books of schoolboy reminiscence ever to be produced. He was a prodigy and the only boy at school to wear glasses. They called him "Gigger" (for "giglamps," which was schoolboy slang for spectacles...