Hello, everyone and welcome to trashy divorces, trashy royals edition, your midweek deep dive.

Oh, today it's going to be fun. I'm Alicia. I'm Stacey.

Today we are midweek deep diving

into the house or Grimaldi, the Grimaldi curse. I feel like it's not even a real name.

It's totally a real name. Let's get into it. Okay. House of Grimaldi. So January 8,

1297. Current events. Current events. Francois Grimaldi, his nickname is The Spiteful. Ah, good. We'll disguise himself as a Franciscan monk and knock down the gate of his uncle Rignay's castle. Once allowed entry, old

Francois the spiteful will pull his sword out of his friar robes and call for his soldiers

who'd been waiting for him on the cliffs of the fortress. Together they successfully take

Monaco. Which is basically like the castle and the grounds of the castle, right?

I mean, it's a tiny, okay.

Yeah, I mean, it's 1297.

The casino is not there yet.

That we know of.

So Francois, the spiteful and short-lived, the victory only goes about four years because four years later,

Francois is forced to flee Monaco. His cousin, Charles Grimaldi, who is the son of the

previous prince Rigny, will take back control. That's Charles the passive aggressive.

Charles the passive aggressive. So over the next several decades, the Grimaldi family and their rule of Monaco were hotly contested and fought over.

Why is Monaco a big deal?

Why do you want it?

Its geography and location makes it an ideal fortress and look out in times of war.

It's beautiful. Has a lot of natural resources, so it's beauty and fortunes make it an ideal sanctuary and respite for all manners

of unpleasantness. It's beautiful, natural beauty, inherent glamour, will make it the most desirable destination for all

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