Now that Monaco has been accorded membership in the United Nations, a longtime dream of Prince Rainier come true, the little Riviera principality will have to have a representative at the world parliament in New York.

And who better than Princess Caroline, Rainier's beauteous widowed daughter?Syndicated social scribe William Norwich says his pipeline to the Grimaldis indicates Rainier first offered the U.N. post to his heir, Prince Albert.

When Albert turned it down, Caroline volunteered because she wants to emerge from mourning as an involved, activist princess along the lines of Britain's Princess Diana.

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