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Monaco's Prince Albert enthroned
CNN ^ | Nov.19, 2005

Posted on 11/19/2005 2:15:04 PM PST by COUNTrecount

MONACO -- Prince Albert II of Monaco was enthroned Saturday, completing the formal succession in a process that began in July and marks the beginning of the playboy prince's reign of the tiny European principality.

Albert, the 47-year-old son of Prince Rainier and Hollywood actress Grace Kelly, was sworn in as head of state in July after a three-month mourning period for his father, who died on April 6 at the age of 81 after having ruled for 55 years.

"Today is a day of joy in Monaco," Monsignor Bernard Barsi, the archbishop of Monaco, said during the ceremony at the Roman Catholic cathedral. The church was the site of Rainier's marriage to Grace, who was killed in a car crash in 1982.

The archbishop said that Albert was a worthy heir to a dynasty that has led the principality for more than seven centuries.

Revelations about the prince's love life, involving an admission that he had an illegitimate son with a French flight attendant of Togolese origin, had threatened to overshadow his investiture in July.

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Let me be the first to say that Prince Albert's in the can
1 posted on 11/19/2005 2:15:05 PM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Apparently, Prince Albert has been in quite a few cans.


2 posted on 11/19/2005 2:17:24 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I am compelled to provide a canned response.


3 posted on 11/19/2005 2:18:17 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (Proud to be named as a member of the Radical Right Wing. Vast Right Wing got old.)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

Can it!


4 posted on 11/19/2005 2:19:08 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: COUNTrecount
Well. This should be moved to breaking news. I can't count the nights of sleep I've lost over this issue.

/john

5 posted on 11/19/2005 2:19:40 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (D@mit! I'm just a cook. Don't make me come over there and prove it!)
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"Revelations about the prince's love life, involving an admission that he had an illegitimate son with a French flight attendant of Togolese origin, had threatened to overshadow his investiture in July."

LOL!

Godless liberals don't care about that. They may actually LIKE that since they IDENTIFY with that kind of lifestyle.


6 posted on 11/19/2005 2:21:09 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: null and void

I can not!


7 posted on 11/19/2005 2:21:19 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (Proud to be named as a member of the Radical Right Wing. Vast Right Wing got old.)
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

I think I can I think I can I think I can...


8 posted on 11/19/2005 2:23:39 PM PST by null and void (The enemy of my enemy is my tool...)
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To: COUNTrecount

Party in Cancun!!!!


9 posted on 11/19/2005 2:24:29 PM PST by DainBramage
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

two can tucan


10 posted on 11/19/2005 2:26:45 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: COUNTrecount

Would the child he had out of wedlock be his heir?I don't believe he has any other children.


11 posted on 11/19/2005 2:26:59 PM PST by Thombo2
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Would the child he had out of wedlock be his heir?I don't believe he has any other children.

Only if he stays out of his mothers hair. The resemblance is uncanny.

12 posted on 11/19/2005 2:29:06 PM PST by ARealMothersSonForever (Proud to be named as a member of the Radical Right Wing. Vast Right Wing got old.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Let him out!


13 posted on 11/19/2005 2:30:03 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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ROFL!

CAN I be the first to say You better let him out?


14 posted on 11/19/2005 2:31:22 PM PST by garyhope (.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Prince Albert II of Monaco is an ally. He is pro-American and a supporter of the Iraq War.

He is half American; he is the son of Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier. He is American educated ( college and graduate school)and has always been a strong supporter of America, American business and way of life.


15 posted on 11/19/2005 2:31:53 PM PST by Cincinna (HILLARY and her HINO want to take over your country. STOP THEM NOW!)
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Do you have Prince Albert in a Can?

Well, let him out!

[Very old, third grade mentality joke! LOL]

16 posted on 11/19/2005 2:35:08 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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"Revelations about the prince's love life, involving an admission that he had an illegitimate son with a French flight attendant of Togolese origin, had threatened to overshadow his investiture in July."

Monaco is smaller than Hyde Park, but its people are still better off than those of the UK. Albert can go out in a moderate wind without having his ears ripped off and there is no evidence that he talks to plants or goes about in Arab costume. This Togolese babe almost certainly has better teeth than Camilla. It is also safe to assume that she won't wear a weed in her hair if she and Al do happen to get married.


17 posted on 11/19/2005 2:39:11 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (British by birth and bloodline; American by choice and bloodshed.)
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flight attendant of Togolese origin

Now there's a country you don't hear much about, had to look it up.

18 posted on 11/19/2005 2:40:59 PM PST by benjaminjjones
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"Prince Albert II of Monaco is an ally. He is pro-American and a supporter of the Iraq War."

Well, we better get a squad of MPs there to fend off a French invasion.


19 posted on 11/19/2005 2:42:34 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (British by birth and bloodline; American by choice and bloodshed.)
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Would the child he had out of wedlock be his heir?

Depends on what you mean by heir.

If you mean will the illegitimate half black child be in the line of succession for the throne . . . no, he will not. That requires a legitimate heir.

Prince Albert has said that the "succession is secure" ... meaning that, even without his having a legitimate heir, his sisters/sisters'children can succeed him [even through the female line, now, I believe].

20 posted on 11/19/2005 2:47:03 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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