"I have watched the sun rise over the beaches of five continents and I have looked into the eyes of the most beautiful women of the universe."
Between race cars, shark-fishing and dancing the twist with Grace Kelly, he somehow found time for considerable achievements...
[H]e married Princess Ira von Furstenberg, descendant of Charlemagne and heiress to the Fiat fortune, who was 15 and had received a special dispensation from Pope Pius XII because she was under the age of consent. … [T]he bride was 45 minutes late. "You're awfully late, dear," Prince Alfonso was heard to mutter in English.
He was once said to have "the mustachioed good looks of a South American taxi driver."
January 19, 2004
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