The prince of Monaco has not a single share in the enterprise. But
he derives his entire income from the sum paid him by the Gamblers'
Company for the lease of Monaco. The prince is of especial interest to
Americans, because of his American wife. She was Miss Alice Heine of
New Orleans. When she married the prince she was a widow, the Dowager
Duchess of Richelieu. The prince is a "divorced" man. He first married
Lady Mary, the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, and a son
and heir was born. But eleven years after the marriage the pair were
so unhappy that an appeal was made to the pope. The Catholic church,
of course, does not recognize divorces, but the pope issued a special
pronouncement declaring his 11-year-old marriage invalid, for the
reason that the Lady Mary's mother "over-persuaded her to marry."