Princess Caroline of Monaco ... smiling at swarthy men,' the Mail reported at the time. Caroline met Philippe Junot in the French capital, a 'commoner' who worked as an insurance broker ...

Born Caroline Grimaldi, she is the eldest child ... While at university in Paris, she met Philippe Junot, 17 years her senior. Despite initial parental disapproval, she went on to marry him.

This week in 1978, the evening sunlight of the French Riviera was warming the cool façade of the magnificent Genoese fortress in the heart of Monte-Carlo, known as the Prince’s Palace of Monaco.