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Topic: Prince Albert takes over the reins in Monaco
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Hephaestion
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posted 01 April 2005 02:54 AM
Prince Rainier worsens, Albert takes over quote:
MONACO (AP) - Prince Albert has taken over the regency of Monaco because his ailing father is unable to exercise his royal functions, the palace said Thursday.The announcement was made in a brief statement from the royal palace, which gave no updates on the health of Prince Rainier, who is being treated in hospital for breathing, kidney and heart problems.
And he is NOT gay, damn it!!! [ 01 April 2005: Message edited by: Hephaestion ]
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skdadl
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posted 03 April 2005 05:41 AM
Gosh, all these momentous shifts may well give new life to the Trieste Liberation Front, of which I am a life member, although we've been pretty inactive for a while, having been chastened through the nineties by unhappy instabilities to the east. But we want Trieste to be a free city again: international citizenship, no visas required, that sort of thing.  (Nanuq, about the succession: just recently, I believe, the Monaco whatever-they-have revised the constitution to allow females to be heirs, so now Albert's sisters and their children are all in the line of succession.)
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aka Mycroft
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posted 03 April 2005 10:40 AM
I fear the Lichenstein-San Marino-Monaco Axis of Evil will wipe little Andorra off the map in hopes of cornering the novelty postal stamp market. Then, of course, Europe will live in fear of the wrath of the Bishop of Urgal. Incidentally, experts in Andorran history will no doubt be familiar with this episode:
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In 1933, serious political and social unrest led to a Russian adventurer, Boris Skossyreff seizing control and declaring himself King Boris I. He proceeded to declare war on the Bishop of Urgell. Boris I was arrested, and the French military occupied Andorra and dismissed the local government placing the Viguiers, who are delegates of the princes, in control.
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In 1933 several disaffected Andorrans, some in high positions in the government, sponsored the attempt of Boris de Skossyreff (himself a Russian) to proclaim himself King Boris I of Andorra. Several days later "King Boris" was removed by several guardsmen of the Bishop of Urgell, but the resultant turmoil culminated in the nation's judicial authority, the Tribunal de Corts, firing the members of the Council Of The Land.In order to prevent the total dissolution of law and order, the French government sent squads of gendarmes to keep domestic order. Within a short time, the Andorrans held elections, re-established the Council Of The Land, with all men over the age of twenty-four being allowed to vote, and all men over thirty allowed to hold office.
[/QUOTE] BTW, anyone hear ever see or read the Mouse that Roared? [ 03 April 2005: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]
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There were a lot of refugees from the former Yugoslavia. 
