The Washington Post, April 7th, 2005
Prince Rainier III, who symbolized the glamour and glitz of Riviera royalty during his long reign over the Lilliputian principality of Monaco, particularly after his fairy-tale wedding in 1956 to the beautiful American actress Grace Kelly, died April 6. The 81-year-old prince was Europe's longest-reigning monarch. The palace said he died from heart, kidney and lung problems. For the past month, he had been hospitalized at Monaco's Cardiothoracic Centre, overlooking the territory's glittering, yacht-filled harbor. The body of Prince Rainier was moved to his hilltop palace, where it will lie in ...
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