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This morning I joined millions of other Australians in accelerating, braking, swearing and spilling coffee on myself all the way down the freeway.
As nice as it would have been, there was no gigantic novelty cheque, no bikini-clad girls or Moet as I rounded the straight and sped past the chequered boom gate into the parking lot.
Hell, there wasn’t even a parking spot. This was an everyday chore, undertaken with great haste but no significant amount of skill. Mark Webber’s overnight victory in the Monaco Grand Prix should be treated with the same level of fanfare, because motor racing is not a sport. Never has been, never will be.
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Who in their right mind would want to be a Princess? In the last week, the royal bride lark has well and truly lost its fairytale sparkle.
Charlene Wittstock’s real-life Princess story came close to coming off the rails when, in the days leading up to her and Prince Albert of Monaco’s $75 million three-day wedding, she reportedly tried to do a runner.
At the eleventh hour, the bride was caught at the airport in Nice, trying to flee to her native South Africa, on a one-way ticket in order to escape her royal fate.
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American actress Grace Kelly married Prince Albert of Monaco today in 1956.
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