People: Jul. 14, 1961

Basking beside the Mediterranean were a couple of Europe's comeliest blonde princesses. As she modestly took umbrage behind a beach blanket to foil photographers at Sainte-Maxime on the French Riviera, Sweden's bouncy Princess Birgitta, 24, might have thought that her already five-week honeymoon with Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, 28, would go on forever. After all, just down the coast near Viareggio, Italy, were Belgium's lissome Princess Paolo, 23, and Prince Albert, 27, on the beach with young son Prince Philippe as they celebrated their second anniversary.

As the dreary trial of Adolf...

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