| Royal Marriages of More Than Convenience |
|
|
|
| Written by Dr. Janice Seto | |
| Tuesday, 12 December 2006 | |
|
Page 1 of 4 The
second Austin Powers movie starred Heather Graham as Felicity Shagwell. "Shagwell by name, Shag-Very-well by reputation". 
At the end of August 2006, former Queen Anne-Marie returned to
In researching this article, I was inspired by the film The Leopard by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Caludia Cardinale, and based on the best-selling novel. The movie includes a scene in which Lancaster, as Don Fabrizio (the Sicilian Prince di Salinas), forcefully reminds his wife of his right as dynastic patriarch to approve the marriage of his nephew and spiritual heir, Don Tancredi (Alain Delon) to the beautiful, if free-spirited, bourgeois heiress (Angelica, played by Cardinale). 
In the history of the present Greek royal family, their coffers similarly find replenishment through marriage. |
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|
