The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full, for the first time, the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Rainier III, the Grimaldis - "an ambitious, hot-blood unscrupulous race, swift to reve...

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1. Verfasser:	Edwards, Anne (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Morrow 1992
Ausgabe:	1. ed.
Schlagworte:	Grace <Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982> > Family Grimaldi family Rainier <III, Prince of Monaco, 1923-2005> > Family Grimaldi > Familie Geschichte Princes > Monaco > Biography Princes > Monaco > Genealogy Princesses > Monaco > Biography Princesses > Monaco > Genealogy Monaco > History Biografie
Zusammenfassung:	The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full, for the first time, the remarkable history of the world's oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Rainier III, the Grimaldis - "an ambitious, hot-blood unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battle" - have ruled Monaco. Against all odds, they have proved themselves masterful survivors, still in possession of their lands and titles despite the upheavals of the French Revolution and the First and Second World Wars, when royal heads rolled and most small countries met their demise. With insufficient weaponry and military forces far too small to go into combat against their more powerful neighbors, France and Italy, the Grimaldis endured by their cunning and their shrewd choice of brides - rich women with high connections in the most influential courts of Europe and, often, strong sexual appetites. The French nobleman's daughter who married Louis I later became the mistress of France's Louis XIV. Her son, Antoine I, was wed to an aristocratic wife who outdid her mother-in-law by having so many lovers her husband took to hanging them in effigy. The seafaring adventurer Prince Albert I was unfortunate enough to have two wives, one British, one American, who ran off with their lovers. His second wife, the American Alice Heine, a fabulously rich heiress from New Orleans and the widowed
Beschreibung:	368 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0688088376