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Sorry for the lack of a news post yesterday. I spent much of the day hungoverly traveling home from a wedding (almost reaching Boston before I noticed I was on the wrong highway) and then the rest of the day hanging out with the BF, who just got back from two weeks hanging out with porny people in Berlin.
This morning I was reading about the lawsuit that’s being brought against Prince Albert by his (alleged) former chief of intelligence. There are so many weird aspects to this and, because it’s the Grimaldi family, I find all of them fascinating. I mean, the British royals are really dull and unattractive, whereas the Monaco royals are all about glitz and glamor and sunny beaches and shady dealings and gambling. The British like fox hunting, and the Monegasque are Olympic bobsledders. Which one sounds better to you? Also, they’re called the Monegasque. (The spy, meanwhile, sounds pretty crazy himself, having been profiled by Salon in 2001 after he did some espionage work on behalf of Ringling Brothers.)
The Times of London also has this intriguing paragraph about his work:
[Robert Eringer, the spy] was particularly proud to have drawn agencies from other European mini-states into a “micro Europe” intelligence union. He claims he would regularly meet the spymasters of Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino and Malta for weekends of wine tasting when they would share information about money laundering and organised crime. They would also share jokes.
That’s amazing to me. Completely, wonderfully amazing. Even more amazing than the fact that all the articles are structuring this lawsuit as a sex tape scandal and not a crazy-in-every-way scandal.
But anyway. In other news…
