Family Weekly May e, 196S
m
Her Serene Highness
is returning to
Hollywood amid wild
rumors; now one
of her closest friends
tells what's really
behind the
comeback "that
could never happen"
became more and more the handsome
prince.
Much of what they worked for in those
first years is now a reality: the railroad
tunnel through the hills, the priceless
addition of 22 acres of land built with fill
from the tunnel, new public utilities and
communications, and the motor races and
regatta which cater to the tourism upon
which Monaco depends.
In January, 1957, when Princess Caro
line Louise Marguerite was born, the joy
of the citizens of Monaco was great. She
was their assurance that the House of
Grimaldi would continue to rule, that they
would not be absorbed by France and be
come subject to French income tax and
military service.
Then in March, 1958, there was more
joyful news. A 101-gun salute proclaimed
the birth of a new heir. Prince Albert
Alexandre Louis Pierre. Yes, the image
of Rainier and Grace as wise rulers and
a happy, home-loving couple had been
successfully created.
I thought of all these things one night
last summer when Their Serene High
nesses were my guests at the fancy-dress
dinner party I gave to celebrate the open
ing of the indoor pool at the Hotel de
Paris. Prince Rainier arrived looking un
like any prince I'd ever seen. His heavy
hair was covered by an artificial bald
pate, arid he wore a fierce black mustache.
Princess Grace came in a rubber mask
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Grace in Hitchcock's To Catch a Thie."
with big fat cheeks and thick braids under
a floppy straw hat. She wore skin-diving
flippers, and both dived and swam like
joyful porpoises.
Certainly no hostess could ask for two
gayer or more appreciative guests than
the couple from the palace. I'm convinced
that only those who are happy within
themselves and with each other ever offer
such warm response. It was obvious then
that they were confident in their roles
and able to unbend for the first time since
their marriage.
ANOTHER example of their new zest for
. life occurred one night in Palma when
we improvised a band. Maria Callas shook
the maracas. Prince Rainier beat the
drums. I played the piano. Aristotle Onas
sis sang French and Italian love songs.
And Princess Grace led all of us with the
greatest enthusiasm.
The next day at the Plaza de Toros,
Rainier entered the bull ring, and the
Princess applauded with the rest of us.
But her hands flew to her face when her
husband actually approached the bull. "Oh
my!" she whispered. "Oh, no! Oh, don't
go near him! Oh!"
The story of Prince Rainier and Prin
cess Grace could well be the theme of a
psychological novel. He was a lonely
child. Princess Charlotte of Monaco and
Pierre de Polignac, his parents, separated
when he was a little boy. He was brought
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Family Weekly, May 6, 1962 S
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