The Grimaldis of Monaco tells in full the remarkable history of the worlds oldest reigning dynasty. For nearly eight hundred years, from the elegant Genoese Rainier I to the current Prince Albert II, the Grimaldisan ambitious, hotblooded, unscrupulous race, swift to revenge and furious in battlehave 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 bridesrich women and high connections in the most influential courts of Europe, and often, strong sexual appetites. The French noblemans daughter who married Louis I later became the mistress of France Louis XIV. Her son, Antoine I was wed to an aristocratic wife who outdid her motherinlaw 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 Duchesse de Richelieu, was the model for Prousts Princess of Luxembourg. Heine used her own wealth to bring...

Binding: Paperback;392 pages; Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc; Classification: BGH; Weight: 702 g; Dimensions: 231 x 154 x 28

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