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Monaco Prince Takes Pole Position
ore used to Grand Prix trip to assembled journalists.
cars than dog sleighs,
Monaco’s Prince Albert’s ‘If in our modest way, by this
forthcoming trek to the North action we are able to bring
Pole has been greeted with environmental problems to the
surprise by many. forefront and force some leaders
to take stronger actions, this
But the Prince is fairly expedition will have achieved its
accustomed to the cold, in objectives’.
contrast to the Mediterranean
warmth of Monaco where he became Environmentalists have welcomed
ruler last July following the Albert’s expedition, and his
passing of his father Prince image in the world’s media is
Rainier, who had ruled the tax changing from that of a playboy
haven for over 50 years. millionaire to a responsible
leader.
Albert represented Monaco at the
last five Winter Olympic Games in In 2002 47 year old Prince Albert
their Bobsleigh team. And he is agreed to a DNA test to show
going to face some cold and whether he was the father to a
hostile conditions on his seven boy born to a former air hostess
day trip to bring to the he had had a relationship with,
attention of fellow world leaders and more recently has been linked
the environmental damage to the by the press with 23 year old
arctic regions that global South African swimming champion
warming is having. Charlene Wittstock.
Speaking at a recent news But one of the first actions he
conference in Monaco, Albert took after succeeding to the
explained his thinking behind the throne was to sign the Kyoto
Protocol, taking Monaco outside enjoy a zero rated income tax.
of the small group of countries
that had failed to ratify the As well as being a tax haven,
treaty, designed to reduce the Monaco hosts the best known
world’s emissions of greenhouses Formula 1 Grand Prix of the year
gases. around the streets of Monte Carlo
and Fontveille in May. Over
Monaco Grand Prix recent years Monaco has also
become a destination of choice
The Monaco Prince Albert for the super-rich in September,
inherited from his father is now when it hosts the Monaco Yacht
the world’s best known tax haven, Show.
and the ultimate European
destination for luxury hotels, And while the Grand Prix and
including the Hotel de Paris, Yacht Show fill the hotels in
frequently quoted in guides as Monte Carlo and Monaco each year,
among the top ten in the world. and on an everyday basis every
second car seems to be an Aston
Local on-line travel guide Martin or Ferrari, locals hope
http://www.yourmonaco.com comment that Prince Albert doesn’t look
that Prince Albert’s interest in too close to home when it comes
the world’s environment sets a to his concern for the
different agenda than that of his environment. Cancelling the
father, who transformed the Monaco Grand Prix in 2007 to show
principality in his reign into an his concern for the environment
economically safe country for the would certainly grab world
world’s wealthy to live and headlines, but might not be a
invest. popular decision among his
subjects.
Residents of the principality
YourMonaco.com say locals feel Kelly, and future media
that there is little danger of appearances could just as well be
this though –Albert is after all in celebrity magazines as
the son of Hollywood star Grace environment campaign ones.
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