| Description |
498 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
"Source notes and other information": pages [467]-488. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
This is the candid and moving story of one of the world's most fascinating royal families. When Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III, she crowned her career with an ending even Hollywood would have never dared to script. Here is an honest and full portrayal of Grace and Rainier, not only as prince and princess, but as a married couple and as parents struggling with the conflicts that can challenge any household. This work proves that no polished image reflects the truth. Even in what appears to be a fairy tale, the players are always flesh-and-blood human beings. |
| Contents |
Courtship: Kellys -- Complex family -- Actress -- Star -- Fateful telephone call -- Comedy of errors -- Palace -- Grimaldis -- Rainier -- Grace meets Rainier -- Home-wrecker? -- Oleg Cassini -- Father figure -- Principality at a crossroads -- Prayer for a princess -- Swan -- "It must be a sign" --"Just like Cinderella" -- "The book" -- Prince Rainier meets the Kellys -- Engagement: Love at first sight? -- Proposal --"I have made my destiny" -- "Fertility test" -- Dowry -- Marriage agreement -- Announcement -- His Highness lays down the law -- Grace under pressure -- "Look what I'm giving up" -- Father Tucker to the rescue -- Marriage: Taking to the high seas -- Arrival of a princess -- Grace's new family -- Locusts! -- Civil ceremony -- Wedding -- Life at the palace: Transition; Grace's -- Transition; Rainier's -- Strengthening a marriage -- Rainier stages a "coup" -- Grace banishes Antoinette from the palace -- Lonely princess -- Stubborn prince -- "More palace drama" -- Rainier encourages Grace's comeback-- "Don't tell father" -- "God help us, when this news gets out" -- "How dare they do this to me?" -- "Sound of hope, dying" -- Crisis in Monaco -- Grace's tortured inner life -- Father Tucker leaves the palace -- Coming to terms -- Most important choice -- Children born royal: Caroline and Albert -- Grace's work -- Tiv's writings -- Stephanie -- Freedom from Onassis -- Happy times (1966-1970) -- Princess Grace turns forty -- Royal parenting -- Tough love -- Exodus from the palace -- Rainier's jubilee -- Whatever happened to the old "Gracie"? -- Crossing the line -- What to do about the past? -- Rebellion -- Grace's brother in trouble -- Phillippe Junot -- Show business, but not really -- Official ban of Caroline's wedding? -- Life changes: "What happens to a marriage?" -- Caroline's wedding -- Inevitable divorce -- Stephanie's turn -- Princesses; Grace and Diana -- "While we dream, time flies" -- Rainier's change of heart -- "So little time" -- September 13, 1982 -- "Stephanie theory" -- "Unthinkable has happened" -- Calling her to glory -- Life after Grace -- Epilogue: Rainier. |
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Grace, Princess of Monaco, 1929-1982.
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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, 1923-2005 -- Family.
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Grimaldi family.
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Princesses -- Monaco -- Biography.
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Princes -- Monaco -- Biography.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0446531642 |
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