Grace of Monaco Page #3

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the children of Monaco

to grow up to be croupiers?

Some would say that

would be an improvement.

Some of Monaco's children are

running around like their mother,

the offspring of a

Philadelphia bricklayer.

Let me go.

- Let me go.

- Mr. Pelletier...

May I, Mr. Pelletier?

(DOG BARKING)

He slapped a French representative?

Yes, he sent me away,

expelled me from Monaco.

Tell De Gaulle he's becoming

dangerously anti-French.

GRACE:
You've been the principality

priest for a long time.

You must know how complicated

things are here, Tuck.

- Yes, I know, Gracie.

- I feel I made a mistake.

What kind of mistake?

Everything I do or say is wrong.

Everything.

Do you know how I spent my afternoon?

I was trying to persuade the

good ladies of the Red Cross

that repairing a hospital wing

might just be more important

than... planning a ball.

You're in Monaco, Grace.

(GRACE SIGHS)

I know I'm in Monaco.

What do you think would happen

if I went back to making movies?

What's it about?

A frigid, compulsive thief.

Really? Hm.

But it's a great role.

I'm sure it is.

Have you spoken to Ray about this?

What do you think?

Of course not, it's always...

I don't know, it's always

politics with him.

Ray is never gonna accept

the idea of his princess

going back into the movies,

you know that, Gracie.

After 7 years of conflict in Algeria,

disorder reigns in France.

To consolidate power and

secure her borders,

the government must

finance the war effort.

In its sights, Monaco.

Mr. Denard spoke to the French

this afternoon from the Elyse.

On the orders of the

French President,

Monaco has a 6-month ultimatum

to begin taxing her citizens

and cease her open courting

of French companies.

Unless they stop scheming

to steal French revenue,

and demand that Monaco

become part of France.

Our food, our water, our power,

everything runs through France.

We'd be squashed in an instant.

Ray, you don't have an army.

You're in no position to

hardball the French President.

GRACE:
It's so nice to have a

real family meal for a change.

RAINIER:
I only wish I could stay and

enjoy it. I have a meeting with Onassis.

What if de Gaulle doesn't

accept your apology?

Then we'll have the shortest

war in the history of mankind.

What happens in a war, Maman?

Oh... Big bad men decide

that they're tired of talking

and so they er...

pull each other's noses.

Someone once asked my father,

"If you could be any monarch,

which monarch would you be?"

He said...

"The Tsar of Russia,

or the Prince of Monaco.

The Tsar, because he knows the

name of none of his subjects,

- the Prince of Monaco...

- Thanks.

...because he knows all of them."

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