Royals Among Us. From the concrete canyons of New York City to the suburbs of Cincinnati, the U. S. is flush with royals and nobles. Most are exiles—or their descendants—driven from their kingdoms and duchies by revolutions or coups. They are employed—most need to work—as bankers, photographers, politicians, even cops.

They ride buses and buy their own groceries. Some live in posh penthouses, others in rented walk- ups. But, as the profiles on the following pages attest, no matter how well our regal neighbors have taken to their adopted country, their pride in their homelands is undiminished. Prince Amoti Nyabongo. For now, this descendant of Ugandan royalty prefers to patrol the streets of Brooklyn as a New York City cop“The only thing I inherited is a rich culture,” says Prince Amoti K. Nyabongo Kyebambe Mukarusa, 4. I am proud of my heritage, but I don’t really make a big deal out of it.” No kidding.

His best friend, Melvin Oliver, says he “pretty much had to pull it out of him” that until 1. Route Irish Online Putlocker here. Nyabongo’s paternal grandfather was the king of Toro, a Ugandan kingdom of 1 million citizens. Until recently, Nyabongo, who lives in a modest townhouse in the working- class Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, hadn’t even told his girlfriend of eight months, Abbi Benjamin. I like the idea of being accepted for who I am,” he says.

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The only child of the late Akiiki Hosea Nyabongo, a former North Carolina A& T State University professor, Amoti was reared by his Bermudan schoolteacher mother, Ada, after his father returned to Toro to help write its constitution. He never came back. I can’t fault him,” says Nyabongo, a 1. Alabama’s Tuskegee University, who visited his father for the first time in 1. I got to see his work, meet the people—he made a difference in their lives.” With 1. Nyabongo someday plans to move to Toro, where the monarchy was restored in 1. But there will be no chauffeur- driven limousines, he insists.

I have work to do.”King Kigeli VForced into exile, he dreams of a regal homecoming from his Virginia flat. The seven- room apartment in which King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa of Rwanda resides in leafy Falls Church, Va., is a far cry from the palace of his youth. But even this scaled- back luxury makes him defensive. I did not come here to get rich,” says Kigeli, 6. The scion of a 5.

Rwandan dynasty, Kigeli was deposed by the Hutu majority in 1. He lived in other parts of Africa for 3. U. S. in ’9. 2, so broke he applied for food stamps.

Two years later he could only watch as 5. Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus. Now Kigeli, who lives on donations from friends, lobbies the U. S. to aid his ravaged land and to help him regain his throne. A king is like a father to the nation,” he says. All the tribes are like his children.”Prince David Chavchavadze. A Georgian prince and former CIA operative, he has lost his kingdom but not forgotten it.

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Who’s that?” she asked of the handsome 2. That’s the young Prince Chavchavadze,” came the reply. No explanation needed: Among Russian émigrés, Chavchavadze’s lineage has always been revered. His parents, Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia and Prince Paul Chavchavadze of the Georgian royal family, left Russia to stay with relatives abroad before the 1. Revolution, in which Nina’s father—a cousin of Czar Nicholas II—was killed along with as many as 1.

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Romanoffs. Born in 1. London, Chavchavadze was raised in New York City. At 1. 8, he joined the U. S. Army, where his Russian language skills landed him in intelligence.

On assignment in Alaska, Soviet soldiers, recognizing the royal name, called him comrade prince.) After World War II he was recruited by the CIA, where he worked on Soviet affairs until retiring in 1. I had a personal investment,” says the prince, 7. Eugenie (they have five grown children from earlier marriages) in Washington, D.

C. “We had lost our country.”But some things survived. Chavchavadze was visiting Moscow in 1.

The troops are ready to be inspected, Your Highness,” said one. As he obliged, the prince’s eyes filled with tears. I never thought I would see this in real life,” he says. Watch Down To Earth HIGH Quality Definitons.

It had been impossible to imagine.”Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. She mixes a life of glamor with charity to the homeland that exiled her family. Feisty Elizabeth Karageorgevic, 6.

Central Park, prefers subways over cabs and shops for clothes at Daffy’s discount store. Last year she developed her own perfume and flogs it on QVC.

Charles thought it was fabulous,” she says. Cousin Prince Charles, that is. The daughter of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and Princess Olga of Greece, Elizabeth was 4 when her family—unseated in a military coup—went into exile. She finally settled in the U. S. The mother of Dynasty actress Catherine, 3.

Christina, 3. 5—with businessman Howard Oxenberg, the first of three husbands—the princess now raises funds for war victims in her native land. When it’s time to find one’s identity,” she says, “one finds it.”Prince Michael Romanoff Ilyinsky. His Cincinnati photography studio now shuttered, he steeps himself in his family’s fabled and tragic lore.

Michael Romanoff Ilyinsky didn’t mind that, during his first visit to Russia in 1. Beyond the fact that he really is a prince—grandson of Grand Duke Dmitri Romanoff Pavlovich, first cousin to Czar Nicholas II—it’s a fair description. The 6’5″ Ilyinsky has made seven trips to Russia in all and, yes, got teary- eyed at former family palaces. There’s a natural desire in me to seek the truth,” says Ilyinsky, 3.

Taking on the role of family historian surprised no one more than Ilyinsky, the youngest of four children of Paul Romanoff Ilyinsky, now mayor of Palm Beach, Fla. After receiving an inheritance at 1. Michael turned to partying until a near- fatal 1. A college dropout turned professional photographer, the twice- divorced Ilyinsky closed his studio earlier this year to spend more time with his daughter and to work on the 1. Milford, Ohio, he shares with girlfriend Lisa Schiesler, 2. I wanted to simplify,” says Ilyinsky, who was raised in a large home with servants in Indian Hill, Ohio.

Still, says Ilyinsky, there was a plus side to his upbringing: “I know what to do with all those forks.”Prince Palden Namgyal. Raised among the monks and mountains of the Himalayas, he made the move to Manhattan with ease“Some Americans think prince is his real name,” giggles Kesang Namgyal, referring to her husband, Prince Palden Namgyal.

That’s fine with him. A J. P. Morgan investment banker and suburban New York soccer dad, Namgyal, 3. Buddhist monks or that the Dalai Lama was a good friend of his parents, the late King Palden Namgyal of Sikkim and his American socialite queen, Hope Cooke. Just 9 in 1. 97. 3, when he and his sister moved to New York with their mother after she left the king (that same year he was dethroned by the Indian Army and died in 1. Namgyal once thought about returning to Sikkim. That would be harder now, says the father of two utterly “Americanized” daughters, ages 6 and 3.

Nor is he sure he even wants to. One of the great things about this country,” he says, “is that you can do something based on your own merits.”Baron François de Bérenx. A nobleman weary of upper- crust socializing now entertains for his supper. Texans are often skeptical when François Duhau de Bérenx, 6. Lone Star State since 1. But they applaud his part- time gis on piano four nights a week in a San Antonio restaurant.

Not that he wasn’t a jet- setter in his day. Bérenx, whose ancestor David Duhau was ennobled by King Louis XIII in the 1. French chateau. After “World War II and taxes wiped out the family wealth, Bérenx moved to the Far East. In 1. 97. 0 he was working as an interior designer in Thailand and hobnobbing with rock stars and royalty when he met and married Danielle Forbes- Frézard. It was amusing to mix with the beautiful people,” he says.

But he doesn’t miss the high life. I get society magazines from Paris,” he says, “and they look like mummies now, eating and drinking too much.