I just realised something. The Vanity Fair article mentions Junot's habit of being in the company of "flashy women" and that "Christina Onassis was a friend". Ranier would have disliked him for that. Monaco (and the Grimaldis) were broke and out of money coming into the 1950's. The Grimaldis only began to come into money when they geared up the casino, which was/is owned by "Societe des Bains de Mer (literally "The Society of Sea Bathers"), or otherwise simply referred to has "SBM" in Monaco. The problem was that the Grimaldi's/Ranier did not own/control SBM. Aristotle Onassis did. It was Onassis who developee Monte Carlo and turned Monaco into the money-earner it is today, not Ranier. Ranier didn't have control of SBM, Onassis did, and Ranier didn't like that.
Yes, I doubt very much if Ranier liked his daughter marrying a guy who was good friends with Christina Onassis.
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