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Last year Britain's Debrett set had some etiquette pointers for the Radziwills. After accompanying the President of the U.S. and his wife to a dinner at Buckingham Palace, they were listed on the official court calendar as Prince and Princess. Proper Britons boggled over the fact that Stash is now a British subject, thus could correctly use his title only if he had a special license from the Queen, which might be as hard to get as some annulments. The accepted explanation for the faux pas was that palace protocol officers consciously elevated the Radziwills on that occasion out of deference to President Kennedy.
However, Lee has never been heard to ask anyone to call her Missus, and her prince—like most of the Eastern Europeans stashed around London, Paris and New York—would probably sooner surrender his Cadillac than his title. Around the Radziwill family, all males are called prince—except Cousin Antony, a Bayswater wine waiter, who is rarely called at all, at least by the Radziwills.
* Annulments are most commonly granted on grounds that either partner entered into the marriage with reservations, usually about having children, or was under outside compulsion to get married. Worldly Italian maidens send friends or relatives premarital postcards hinting at such reservations or compulsions, which can later be used as evidence if needed.