The storyline of "local girl marries royalty" is similar to the real-life story of Grace Kelly, the Academy Award-winning actress from a prominent Philadelphia family, who married Prince Ranier III of Monaco in 1956. (Princess Grace died in an auto accident in September 1982)
John Banner, a talented character actor who was born in Austria, plays the role of chief of protocol to perfection. He would go on to delight American TV audiences just over a year later as the jovial but bumbling Sgt. Schultz on "Hogan's Heroes" (1965).