Monaco's Prince Rainier in Grave Condition

[Sazar]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=8003277

Monaco's Prince Rainier was in a "worrying" condition on Friday and remains attached to an artificial respirator three days after he was taken into intensive care, his palace said on Friday.
The 81-year-old prince, who was married to the late film icon Grace Kelly, has been suffering from a lung infection complicated by cardiac and kidney problems.

"The state of health of His Most Serene Highness Prince Rainier III, who is still in intensive care under artificial respiration in Monaco's Cardiothoracic Center, remains worrying," the palace said in a medical bulletin.

A specialist from Paris was consulted late on Thursday given "the gravity of the situation" and decided to keep the prince in intensive care, the palace said.

The prince, one of the world's longest serving monarchs, rules the tiny state of Monaco on the French Riviera.

He had initially been responding well to treatment following his admission to the cardiothoracic center on March 7.

Rainier, whose Grimaldi family has ruled the low-tax haven for seven centuries, has been in and out of hospital in recent years with both lung and coronary problems.

Born on May 31, 1923, Rainier has cut a lonely figure in recent years as media attention has shifted from him to the turbulent lives of his three children.

Princess Grace, the American actress he married in 1956, was killed in a car crash in 1982.

His life was an interesting one and his relationship to Princess Grace was one of the more storied marriages in the past few decades.

May you go in peace.

[ViN86]

"His Most Serene Highness"......

excuse me a second .... hahahahahahah

i wish people called me that

on a more serious note, prayers go out to his admirers and family.