Would you be surprised to learn that Grace Kelly wasn’t the first American to become Princess of Monaco? We were. The New Orleans-born, socially prominent Alice Heine (grandniece of German poet Heinrich Heine) was the second wife of Monaco’s Prince Albert I, who was the great-grandfather of Grace’s husband, Prince Rainier III. Alice and Albert married in 1889.
According to “Q,” the autobiography of music-industry hyphenate Quincy Jones, the Kennedy Center honoree admitted that he has never learned how to:
A) Read music
B) Swim
C) Drive a car
D) Dance
Tuesday’s answer: Mrs. Wisk is the fiancee of Mr. Quale in the Dickens novel “Bleak House.”
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