Grace of Monaco Page #2

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That's what you said

you loved about me.

(FIREWORKS EXPLODING IN DISTANCE)

Madge said...

Hitchcock came to see you.

Madge said that?

Yes, he came to see how I was.

He was passing through, and...

It was nice to see him.

I wish you told me.

I'd like to have seen him.

This hospital's been

abandoned for years.

We don't even know if

the floors are sound.

Ma'am, we simply cannot

justify these repairs.

The hospital already accounts

for most of our spending.

How about the palace

gives you an endowment,

and the Red Cross

Committee matches it?

If you pay to expand the orphanage,

the retirement homes will expect you

to do the same, and then the schools.

And you don't have the funds.

My dear Countess, it's really

very, very simple and necessary.

All we have to do is convert this

space into an open dormitory.

And then we put partitions and each child

will have their own separate living area.

Simple.

(BUZZ OF CONVERSATION)

Maybe we can vote for it in

our plenary session tomorrow.

But now we must get back,

there's the small issue of the

Annual Red Cross Ball to organise.

But that's not due until October.

It's the most important event

in our social calendar.

Besides, you just don't have the

money for renovations right now.

I'm sorry, Countess, I mistakenly thought

we were here to repair a hospital.

(GASPS OF SHOCK)

(ENGINE REVVING)

(TYRES SCREECH)

(TYRES SCREECH)

(PANTING)

(YELLS IN FRUSTRATION)

103 new companies registered offices

in Monaco in the last two years.

90 per cent of them

relocated from France.

All of them came for your zero-tax.

And what do you want

us to do about it?

Stop courting them.

- (DOG BARKING)

- GIRL:
Oliver, come here! Come on!

- Casinos.

- GIRL:
Come here, now!

That's what I've inherited, Emile.

GIRL:
Good dog!

A playground for French aristocrats.

And that's a problem?

Oh, for the 10,000 people

who live here, yes.

Ordinary people need

schools, hospitals.

We make nothing, we export nothing.

If France is going to drain

Monaco of all she has,

it's not unreasonable to expect

French businesses to pay for it.

We find ourselves at an

impasse, Your Highness.

Because the President wants you to

not only impose income tax in Monaco,

but to pay the proceeds to France.

(MURMURS OF DISMAY)

You want us to pay tax to France?

This is a French protectorate

which has only ever existed

because of French good will.

This is a sovereign nation.

(DOG BARKS)

GIRL:
Oliver, come on, boy.

(DOG BARKING)

My peers in Paris are not

as understanding as I am.

I'm to return tomorrow

with your full acceptance.

Please work with me, Your Highness.

Does de Gaulle really want

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