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Biography of Rainier III of Monaco, Prince
Name: Rainier III of Monaco, Prince
Birth Date: May 31, 1923
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Monte Carlo, Monaco
Nationality: Monacan
Gender: Male
Occupations: prince
Rainier III of Monaco, Prince
Scion of one of Europe's oldest extant monarchies, Prince Rainier III (born 1923) became the thirty-first ruler of Monaco in 1949. In the years since he has maintained the tiny Mediterranean principality as a prosperous slice of a bygone era, attractive to the rich and idle for its sunshine, lavish casino, and absence of income tax.Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand de Grimaldi was born May 31, 1923 to Princess Charlotte, daughter of Monaco's reigning prince, Louis II. Rainier's father, Comte Pierre de Polignac, hailed from a venerable line of French aristocrats, but incited little but rancor in Louis II, a stern, military-loving monarch. Such intrafamilial conflicts were nothing new to the Grimaldi line, who possessed a long history of internal tumult. De Polignac and Charlotte's first child, Princess Antoinette, would one day conduct her own underhanded machinations in an attempt to seize power.Treacherous RootsAt the time of Rainier's birth Monaco enjoyed a …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Rainier once said, according to a 1988 People magazine article.Rainier had surgery in December of 1999 to repari an aneurysm in his abdominal aorta. His surgical adventures continued when on February 2, 2000, doctors removed part of his lung in order to examine a small nodular growth. On February 12, 2000, after air was discovered escaping from a lung and building up in his chest cavity, Rainier was operated on again. The condition, called pneumothorax, is a disease that can cause partial or complete collapse of the lung if left untreated. After the surgery, doctors said Rainier was recovering satisfactorily. Further Reading De Massy, Baron Christian and Charles Higham, Palace: My Life in the Royal Family of Monaco, Atheneum, 1986.Edwards, Anne, The Grimaldis of Monaco, William Morrow, 1992.Lacey, Robert, Grace, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.Robinson, Jeffrey, Rainier and Grace: An Intimate Portrait, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.Cosmopolitan, August, 1993, pp. 192-195, 252.People, June 13, 1988, pp. 46-47; February 12, 1996, pp. 144-147; September 30, 1996, pp. 70-76.
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