MONACO: The Girl-Shy Highness

Monday, Nov. 08, 1954

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The conscientious prince is worried by the falling off in revenues from the tourist trade and the gambling casino at Monte Carlo, which have long been Monaco's prime sources of income. His subjects have another worry: their robust, sporting young Prince is girl-shy. Only once has Rainier's name been publicly linked with that of a woman, a French actress named Gisele Pascal. The publicity so frightened him that he has hardly looked at another woman. Since a 1918 treaty with France provides that if a Prince of Monaco dies without issue, the principality becomes a French protectorate, subject to French taxes. His Serene Highness' tax-free subjects are all enthusiastic matchmakers.

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