A few times every century, a great beauty is born. I am not one of them. But what nature skipped, I suppliedso much so that sometimes 1 cannot remember what is real and what is fake.
Princess Luciana Pignatelli,
The Beautiful People's Beauty Book
It is not that the princess has a weak memory: even an IBM super multiprocessor system would be hard put to keep track of the surgical, spiritual, chemical and cosmetic chicanery credited with transforming her from what she calls "a lump" of a young girl into the "internationally renowned beauty" of...