Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves
“Noise, dust, foreigners, rising prices—Monte Carlo, they complained, was no longer the gracious, sepia picture postcard oasis of legend. Ruritania was turning into a building site. The beautiful old villas and their gardens were vanishing, and construction cranes now outnumbered the palm trees. Everyone seemed to be losing their sea view. Looking at the skyline, Whicker decided that the place deserved a new name. He called it “Manhattan-on-the-Med.”Rainier III was the driving inspiration in thi...s orgy of concrete-pouring, and it transformed the character of Monaco in the course of his reign. The prince’s twin recipes for the prosperity of his realm were the expansion of tourism and the multiplication of Monaco’s tax-sheltered businesses—and both meant construction on a massive scale. Dig a tunnel here, fill the sea there—when Grace’s husband got working on his plans to cram record numbers of people into the limited square footage of his little principality, he was like a boy with a Lego set.MoreLess
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