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MONACO'S Princess Stephanie was granted a divorce yesterday from her husband Daniel Ducruet (32), her lawyer said.

MONACO'S Princess Stephanie was granted a divorce yesterday from her husband Daniel Ducruet (32), her lawyer said.

The younger daughter of Prince Rainier and the late Princess Grace filed for divorce after publication of pictures of Ducruet making love by a poolside with Belgian stripper Fili Houteman, alias Sharon (26), who won the Miss Topless Belgium title last year.

President Vaclav Havel, the architect of the Velvet Revolution which ended the communist era in former Czechoslovakia, turns 60 today.

Unlike most of his contemporaries, he enjoys an undiminished popularity. In recent polls, 82 per cent of Czechs indicated support for Havel, placing him far ahead of other Czech Republic politicians.

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He plans to celebrate his 60th birthday with a large reception at a Prague theatre, inviting political enemies as well as friends.

Feminist Shere Hite took to the information superhighway yesterday to spell out what she knows about sex in a frank format.

Bridling at suggestions she was an electronic agony aunt, she said: "I am not a counsellor. I would like to provide the fruits of the knowledge I have acquired over the years."

Hite, famed for her frank reports that blame men for much of women's sexual frustrations, sat down at the Frankfurt book fair for an on line session with whoever tuned in.

Prince Frederick (28), heir to the Danish throne, describes in a new book how as a teenager he suffered from depression and once considered suicide.

The book, A Family and Its Queen by Anne Wolden Raethlinges, includes five portraits of members of the royal family.

In it, Frederick, eldest son of Queen Magarethe and Prince Henrik, says that up to the age of 18 he was "the loneliest person in the world".

He says that it was only in the last 10 years that he had managed to take control of his life and "really start to live".