Monaco

With apartments fetching an average price of $7,500 per square foot, Fifth Avenue ranked third place in a new survey of the top 10 most expensive residential streets in the world from Barclay’s Wealth Bulletin. But if you thought top-tier residential prices in Manhattan were stratospheric, take a look at the two most expensive streets on the survey.

Avenue Princess Grace in Monaco ranked No. 1 in the survey with homes fetching an average of $17,750 a foot.

“Properties on the avenue change hands for up to $41 million – and many of them are fairly modest four-bedroom apartments,” the report said.  read more »

The Transom has always loved the royal family of Monaco because, of all the royal lines, it most resembles families to which we are accustomed. Children out of wedlock? Grandma was a North African laundry worker? With the Grimaldis, it all sounds terribly, trailer-park familiar to The Transom...

After this week's confirmation of this spring's story that Prince Albert II has had a child with a flight attendant—Air France, naturally, for they are the hottest—The Transom thought it might just call up His Princeness and ask a few questions.  read more »

The Transom, in fact, has the phone number of the lawyer for His Serene Highness. But we don't quite know what to ask—besides, of course, if perhaps any of those other children who look rather like him might in fact be his as well. Or, you know, if His Monaco-ness might be willing to cut us in on the family fortune. Any suggestions are appreciated. —Choire Sicha

I joined an Internet dating service the Saturday night before Easter.  read more »