"Oh, that's Paola," said the young Roman princess haughtily when the visiting Prince Albert of Liege, younger (25) brother of Belgium's King Baudouin, made his first discreet inquiry last November. "She is nice, but so shy that you hardly know whether she's around or not." By the time Prince Albert got back from Rome after attending the coronation of Pope John XXIII, all the world knew that Paola was around. The gossipists reported that Albert had fallen in love with her at first sight, proposed to her at second. Last week the people of Brussels chanted her name, and...
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