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THE CHINA MAIL), MONDAY, · MARCH 11,.: 1957.
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Begins today the story of a Prince who-in a world where Princes are giving place to Tycoons has brought" publicity, glamour, ostentatious wealth, the things respected in an age that is not his, to defend a little Princadom the size of a public park, The series appears daily in the
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The Prince of Monte Carlo
MAGINE an independent country the size of Hyde Park, dominated
by two beautiful hills, jutting out into the bluest of seas, crowned on the one side by the greatest casino in the world, on the other by a fairy castle such as a child might build out of his fancy.
Imagine a land where the sun shines for ten months of the year, where the air is scented with mimosa and cyclamen, where hydrangeas and bougainvilleas in public parks are changed each week.
Imagine a country with no unemployment, no income tax, no conscription, whose rights can be upheld by an army of 85 soldiers and 16 old bronze cannon.
It is paradise on earth. It is Monaco.
The Pearl of the Mediterranean, the one places apt. Who could be unhappy in in the world where the wealthy prefer to live and would choose to die. Such is the state over which reigns one of the most handsome monarchs in the world, His Serene Highness Prince Rainier III, by the Grace of God Prince of Monaco, Lord of the Rock and the Sea.
When the Prince of Monaco rises in the moming and looks out past the Renaissance arches of the terrace outside his bed- room, the last fluffy clouds of night cap the Alps in front of
hin. The sky is blue, en opales cent blue edged with gold, Below him lies his kingdom and
business centre where his sub- lects work the shops, cafes and hotels overlooking the lovely harbour where millionaires keep their yachts.
Further cast again, where the mountains cascade down to the sen, there is yet another bill, Monte Carlo, or Mount Charles
as it was called after one of his
Rainier con still do that. Though 25,000 people have come from all parts of the world to live happily in his kingdom by the sea, only 2,500 people are ectual native-bon Monegasques. When, seven years ago the Prince celebrated his accession
end in
Couplers of the Casino, the Blaric, which means white In customs officials, the bus drivers French, always won in the end.
fact over 1,400 of the 2,500 from the state...which does not Monegasques hold jobs
leave much room for a dole queue.
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Their Prince is Rainier but to the throne of the Principality their fairy godmothers by on official garden party, doubtedly
foreigners who
vincials did not need to Issue special invitations. They simply
Bre the million every year
opened wide the gates of the crowd Monaco to have a share Monaco Certainly not Rainier, Palace gardens and let in the in its sunshine, its joie de vivre living with his beautiful princess whole nation shopkeepers its pleasures and its gambling, in their pink palace amidst the toasted their ruling Prince in By law, all Monegasques and Canalettos and the Brughels and champagne and croupiers of the that includes Rainier himself
Casino hobnobbed with foreign re barred from trying their luck where a vast red, blue and gold envoys,
at the roulette or baccarat tables. But why should they? The gambling visitors bring, be, tween a million, and a half and two million pounds a year, most of which goes to keep Monaco co its feet.
handsome
Monegasques
Gambling has since then filled the Prince of Monaco's coffers to vaflowing. Its advent was the last and most magnificent stroke of luck in the centuries- old family history, Though some people might irreverently call Rainder The Rrince of the Roulette Tables," his family, the Grimaldis, have a remarkable history. Their tenacity in cling- ing to their tiny legacy of rock and water is almos unique, though naturally, they had their ups and downs, One Prince was murdered by his brother, an other was slain by a cousin and #third Grimaldi was thrown in- to the sea by his angry subjects.
Naturally, also, the Grimaldis“ intrigued and played politics to keep their kingdom intact. But which ruling family has not? ·
Ancestry
room holds the beautiful red- velveled throne which is the symbol of his power. He is wealthy: the state brings him £52,000 a year (27,000 more than the President of the great French Republic). Nothing is if their Prince is happy so The world has gambled at beyond his dreams: he has a are the Monegasques, mostly for Monte Carlo for over a century;
mentioned above. It was reasona
In 1830 that the then They need never fear loss of ruling Prince Arst gave employment because if they so gambling concession.
But the they have first claim to
to Casino Itecil dates only from every state office, from road- 1869
Rainier can trace his ancestry sweeper to Prime Minister. The Frenchman named Blane first was born in 1070, only four years when an enterprising back to one Otto Cavelin who rule is that no foreigner can be saw the chance of making money after William the given a job which a Monegasque where the sun shone. right want
and the result is Blanc, incidentally, who gave vas
It was won the Battle of Hastings. He the first magistrate of
core-
yacht, several of the the world's best cars, a privole zoo, early every item of his to to carry every monial uniform. His subjects, who are known as Monegasques, say that he is also wice and good. His slate is a constitutional Monte Carlo is different again. monarchy-like Britain but in that these happy people really rise to the first classic joke about Genoa, at that time one of It is a de-luxe resort, the world's practice he is one of the last run their tiny country; they are casino gambling: it was said in world's great merchant cities. most beautiful, most refined city absolute monarchs, personally the policemen, the headmasters his day that whether green or He named his son Grimaldo and out on the tables, founded the fortunes of the clan.
be can see Its farthest frontlers. forefathers.
There is Monaco, the city on the hill, with its tall, narrow, ochre-painted houses which have seca twenty-five generations of of pleasure, with famous shops, enswerable to no one, forced to of schools, the park keepers, the "red" came his ancestors
and come
holidaymakers whose names obey no one. A 19th century Monaco the captted, the place crowd the pages of Debrett's and French wit once observed that where they keep the Groot Seal, the Almanacht de Gothathe If he had been born to wear a where they moke the
stamps great Victorian pile of columns crown he would have liked t
to be which all the world collects. and cupids, the Casino.
go.
Further east, down past the
Somebody once called Monaco ****" tree-shaded slopes of the Palace "a limited company for the en- hill, les La Gondamino, the joyment of life?" and the phrase
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And what a clan it was...kreat merchants, their galleys Inden with the treasures of the East, living in marble palaces and addressing kings and emperor as equals. They were proud, <rrogant, warilise and ambitious.
Genoa soon grew too small to hold them--and their enemies. In the last years of the 13th century, the Grimaldia wero knocked out of the... endless struggle for power in the city. and were exiled. They sailed westwards, in their own ships, with all their kinsmen, their wealth and their fighting power.
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They came, ACTORS a amall, well-righ impregnable rock fortress sixty miles west of Genoa, Its name was Monachos and it was already a Genoose outpost. It was so well guarded that the Grimaldis did not dare attack it in broad daylight, But at dead of night, two of them disguised as monks asked for admittance into the fortress, thus opening the doors for their friends and relatives.
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That is why to this day, the arms of Monaco show two monks, both with words in their hands, supporting the family's cont
me By 1807, the Grimaldis were at home for good, on, the Monaco rocic, and made them- selves: independent rulers. They have never willingly let go of this power.
Through centuries of turbulent European history, the Princes of the Grimaldi family were in the thick of councils, wars God battles. One was. Admiral of France; another commanded the armies of the French King and a third led the French archers who fought at the
Battle Crecy against the bowmen of King Henry of England. Their tons reigned and their daughterm married well. They calogi new titles and lost others but never once did they willingly give up Monaco,
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