Grace Kelly

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12th 1929 - September 14th 1982), become Princess Grace of Monaco , was a American Actrice of Irish origin. She married the prince Rainier III of Monaco the April 19th 1956 and was first American to go up on a throne.

Youth

Born with Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, the United States, it is the girl of the “kings of brick” of Philadelphia, emigrating Irish and Catholique S. His/her grandfather built family fortune, thus carrying out the “American Rêve”. His/her father, John B. Kelly, Sr., had gained an Olympic gold medal in 1920. His/her mother was of Prussian origin. The brother of Grace, John junior, became mayor of Philadelphia.

Actress

Educated with the convent of the ladies of the Assumption of Philadelphia, she wishes to become actress at 17 years, in spite of the opposition of her family. She poses for Coca-Cola and Colgate in order to pay her courses of dramatic art to New York. Grace Kelly became mannequin of mode and appeared in its first film in 1951, Fourteen Hours at 22 years. The following year, it obtains the first role in the train will whistle three times , a western with Gary Cooper.

In 1953, it plays in Mogambo , a drama in love whose action proceeds in the jungle Kenya. Giving the counterpart to Clark Gable and Ava Gardner, it is put in nomination for the Oscar of the female best supporting role. She plays then in three films of Alfred Hitchcock: the crime was almost perfect , Fenêtre on court and the Hand with the collet .

In 1955, it gains the Oscar of the best actress for The Country Girl . During the turning of this film, it would have had an love affair with Bing Crosby.

Princess of Monaco

She wishes to marry the count Oleg Cassini, the dressmaker of Jackie Kennedy, but this one being older than she and several times divorced, the parents of Grace oppose this union.

The prince Rainier of Monaco returns visit as a neighbor to the turning of the Hand to the collet of Alfred Hitchcock which is held with Monte Carlo. On the instigation of Paris Match, they meet for a photo session with the princely palate. By the means of the Tucker father, Irish of Philadelphia, confessor of the prince, Rainier is invited for the festivals of end of the year in the Kelly family. It is during this stay that Grace and Rainier éprennent one of the other and announce their engagement. She agrees to give up her cinematographic career after the musical comedy High Society (1956), comedy sung with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, which will become the family friend Grimaldi and will be the godfather of Stéphanie of Monaco.

The relation between Grace and Rainier causes many rumors. The gutter press claims that not only the prince loves the handsome actors (like the Frenchwoman Gisele Pascal before Grace), but whom it makes sure in addition to their fertility to ensure a heir the principality.

After a civil wedding the April 18th 1956, the princely marriage which proceeds in the cathedral of Monaco is celebrated the April 19th 1956 and is retransmis in the whole world, they had three children:

  1. Caroline Louise Marguerite, born the January 23rd 1957.
  2. Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, “hereditary prince” and marquis of the Beams, born the March 14th 1958, become prince de Monaco the April 6th 2005.
  3. Stéphanie Marie Elisabeth, born the 1965.

Supportrice of the ACE Monaco, it imagines the shirt of ASM in 1960, which carries to them chance, since the team gains the championship the same year, in spite of the streamers of the unfavourable supporters proclaiming: “Monaco finished " régner" ” and “No " grâce" for Monaco”.

Death

Perhaps victim of a Cerebral vascular accident, it lost the control of its Rover P6 with V8 engine, whereas it left the residence of Rocagel , property of the princely family on the heights of Monaco. Its car left the road (MINOR ROAD 37) in a lace with Cape d' Ail and descended a slope cliff to immobilize on the carpark of a villa 50 meters in against-low. She died of the continuations of the wounds of this accident with the Hospital Princess Grace the September 14th 1982. The Stéphanie princess who accompanied it was seriously wounded.

Its funerals celebrated in the Cathédrale of Monaco gathered the family members princely and that of Kelly, but also of many personalities of which the princess Diana, the president of the Irish Republic Patrick Hillery, the first ladies French and American Danielle Mitterrand and Nancy Reagan, and many his/her friends like the actor Cary Grant.

The Grace princess is buried in the Abside of the Cathédrale of Monaco, at Monaco-City.

The princess, in addition to her generosity with regard to was disinherited and of the artists as it (it helped Joséphine Baker and its burial with Monaco offered to him), a lady of a rare distinction and a very great elegance. Its death deeply marked its contemporaries.

According to Guy Mouyrin, being presented in the form of a former driver of Joseph Di Mambro, Grace Kelly would have been member of the Ordre of the solar temple and would have been assassinated, an assertion which holds of the rumor.

In July 2007 the principality has emitted a Pièce commemorative of 2 euros to celebrate the 25e birthday of its death.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • On the site of the palate of Monaco

  • Grace Kelly in the Internet Movie Database
  • Grace Kelly Online
  • /a homage to Grace Kelly

The principality of Monaco strikes its first 2€ commemorative in memory of very regretted Princesse Grace of Monaco, for the 25° birthday of its tragedy disappearance. Struck by the Currency of Paris, this 2€ is emitted with only 20.000 specimens and left on July 12th, 2007. It is weakest pulling for a commemorative coin of 2€ to date.

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