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timesonline
RINCESS Grace of Monaco considered divorcing Prince Rainier and returning to her native America in the early 1970s, according to a new biography that purports to explode the myth of her fairytale marriage.
The book, Grace: A Disenchanted Princess, published in France, claims that the former Hollywood actress Grace Kelly came to consider herself “a prisoner in a golden cage” in the 235- room royal palace after marrying Rainier in 1956.

She believed that the prince neglected her and was embittered by reports of his alleged infidelity, while Rainier became more and more jealous of his wife’s charm and fame.

The book — written under the pseudonym Joanne Spencer — quotes Baron Christian de Massy, one of the prince’s nephews, as acknowledging that he treated her poorly. “My uncle often lost his patience with the princess in public, but she never contradicted him; nor did she answer back in the same manner,” de Massy said.

Kelly and her husband had little in common besides a sense of humour, the author claims. Unlike her, he did not like long walks, while she did not share his enthusiasm for shooting, boxing, scuba diving, skiing and fast cars.

The book claims that their marriage started to break down when Alfred Hitchcock, who had directed Kelly in Rear Window, Dial M for Murder and To Catch a Thief in the 1950s, asked her to star opposite Sean Connery in Marnie in 1962. The script cast her as a frigid, low-born thief raped on her honeymoon by a publisher.

Kelly accepted Hitchcock’s proposal, then informed the palace. The news prompted outrage in the principality and disapproval even from President Charles de Gaulle and Pope John XXIII. Kelly was forced to turn her back on her 11-film acting career.

Increasingly disenchanted in the early 1970s, the princess secretly consulted an American divorce lawyer whose name, according to Payot, the publisher, has been withheld at his request.

She gave up the idea when she learnt that a contract she had signed a few hours before her marriage would mean her losing custody of their three children, Caroline, Albert and Stephanie.

“If I had the choice I would divorce,” Kelly is said to have told her friend Micheline Swift, wife of the director David Swift. “But I don’t have the choice. He would keep my children.”

She decided to postpone any move until Stephanie, the youngest child, had grown up.

By 1976 Kelly had all but moved to Paris with her two daughters. The official reason was that she was supervising their studies, but it was a de facto separation, the book claims. She rarely returned to Monaco and no longer shared a bed with Rainier. Spencer says that she remained faithful, “unlike her husband”.

Kelly died aged 53 in 1982 when her car swerved off a road in Monaco. Stephanie, who was also in the car, was unharmed.

The book pulls few punches where Rainier, now 80, is concerned. Before the marriage Kelly was subjected to a fertility test and Rainier insisted that her parents pay a dowry, it says.

Payot says the author is a female Irish journalist who has been close to the Grimaldi family and now lives in London. The Italian media have speculated that it is the work of a former companion of Kelly at the court.

The prince’s spokesman declined to discuss the book

 

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ABC NEWS
Fifty years ago today, one of the most-famous weddings in history took place when Grace Kelly married Monaco's Prince Rainier III.


Grace Kelly's wore these rose point lace-and-pearl wedding shoes.
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By marrying into the ancient aristocracy of Europe, the glamorous 26-year-old Hollywood star made the ultimate cultural conquest.

To meet her prince, Kelly arrived in style, sailing to Monaco on the USS Constitution with her triumphant army of bridesmaids, journalists, and a poodle given to her by actor Cary Grant. Kelly and Rainier were virtual strangers, having only met twice before.

Rainier was a 32-year-old bachelor-about-town who had decided it was time to get serious and produce an heir to the throne so his country wouldn't revert to France.

He had first met Kelly when a magazine photographed the two of them together as a publicity stunt. Kelly was annoyed that Rainier was late, and Rainier admitted it wasn't love at first sight.

"I don't really believe in love at first sight," he told Diane Sawyer in 1997. "I think true love has to be based on something."

When asked whether she was the most-beautiful woman he had ever seen, Rainier replied, "Well, surely. Yes. I think probably fairly obvious."

At their civil marriage service, in the historic throne room, Kelly looked tired because she and Rainier, together for just the third time in their lives, had sat up and talked all night.

The next day, at the Catholic ceremony at a cathedral, Kelly looked regal in 450 yards of silk and lace. Already a fashion icon, Kelly was catapulted into a new realm, thanks to her wedding dress.
50 Years After Wedding, Grace Kelly Mystique Remains
Kelly and Rainier Barely Knew Each Other Before Wedding
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"The whole thing was made at MGM wardrobe studios under top-secret conditions," said H. Kristina Haugland, associate curator of costume and textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Thirty-five people worked on it for six weeks, MGM said, and all of them were sworn to secrecy because everyone wanted to find out what the dress would look like."

The Philadelphia museum is currently exhibiting Kelly's dress and accessories to commemorate the anniversary of the 1956 fairy-tale wedding. Kelly donated her dress to the museum soon after the ceremony, but this is the first time the gown has been on view since it was part of the museum's 1997 exhibit "Best Dressed: 250 Years of Style."

Visitors can also see Kelly's rose point lace-and-pearl wedding shoes. Haugland confirmed a rumor about them.

"I was able to verify one story, and that is that a copper penny was concealed, in fact, by the shoes for good luck," said Haugland, author of "Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride."

"You can't see or feel it. We were able to X-ray the shoes, and indeed that X-ray reveals that penny that's built very comfortably inside the shoe so she would have that luck without having to feel the penny inside of her slipper."

Among Kelly's wedding accessories on display is a tiny prayer book, a gift from a family friend, that she carried on her wedding day.

"It was fairly common for devout brides to carry a small prayer book and Grace Kelly was very devout, and I think she felt that this was in keeping with the solemnity of the occasion," Haugland said.

 

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playbill.com
Cy Coleman's Grace Kelly Musical Has Gurney, the Bergmans and Blakemore Attached
By Kenneth Jones
12 Oct 2004
Grace, composer Cy Coleman's musical about Grace Kelly that had its world premiere in Holland in 2001, now has new American collaborators that will lift the show out of the Dutch language and reimagine it for a wider English-speaking audience.

Tony Award-winner Coleman told Playbill the show's new librettist is A.R. Gurney (The Dining Room, Love Letters) and his new lyricists will be Marilyn and Alan Bergman ("Yentl," Ballroom), who are also his partners on the developing show Like Jazz.

Coleman also added that Michael Blakemore, the Tony winning director of Coleman's City of Angels and The Life, is attached to Grace as director. No timetable has been revealed for a commercial production of the show, which concerns actress Grace Kelly being pulled three ways — between her American roots, a project with film director Alfred Hitchcock and the royal family of Monaco. The Philadelphia native would become a Hollywood star, but married Prince Rainier of Monaco and became European royalty.

Dutch lyricist-librettist Seth Gaaikema was Coleman's previous writing partner on Grace, which premiered at the Grace Theatre in Amsterdam in October 2001. The staging closed in March 2002, earlier than expected. Producer Bert Maas, who conceived the idea, built the theatre for the new show, which he had hoped would become a licensable international show.

Maas said he always dreamed of as musical about Grace Kelly. The original production featured Dutch stars Joke de Kruijf and Ernst Daniel Smid (as Kelly and Monaco's Prince Rainier, respectively) and Rob van de Meeberg as film director Hitchcock.

The stars sang the American premiere of some of the show's songs in a January 2002 Carnegie Hall concert of Coleman's music.

How was the Tony Award-winning composer of City of Angels, Barnum, On the Twentieth Century and Sweet Charity approached to write a Dutch musical about international American-born icon Kelly?

"The pitch that was made to me was this," Coleman previously told Playbill On-Line. "They came to see me in London and they said they had a musical about Grace Kelly. I'm always of the opinion that it's not what you do, but the way that you do it. So I said, 'What about Grace Kelly?' They said it was Hitchcock's version of her life. That immediately sparked my imagination. And the show takes place in Hitchcock's sound stage, and everything grows out of that — Monaco and all that. It has some dark tones. It's not just the Royal Family in Monaco. It's about the nouveau riche of the Kellys as opposed to the old aristocracy."

Of the English-language rewrite, he said, "I want to get somebody of worth who can give us an English version with a real psychological story, and have some humor."

Coleman, known for such potent show tunes as "Hey, Big Spender," "I've Got Your Number," "Hey, Look Me Over," "The Colors of My Life" and "You Can Always Count on Me," doesn't like to repeat himself musically: From show to show, he plays with new flavors for fear of boring his audience — or himself. Thus, Barnum was filled with circus chases, City of Angels was Hollywood film music merged with torch song, On the Twentieth Century was comic opera, Will Rogers Follies married showbiz and vaudeville with folk and country, and so on.

Of Grace, Coleman said, "Musically, I wanted to do a meld of European style and American style — the European feeling along with American pizzazz. That fascinated me."

The 2001 melodies will be preserved for the English language version, Coleman said.

The show opened Oct. 25, 2001, and had a lot of Broadway talent involved. Maas said he knew Americans create the best musicals, so he sought U.S. artists when putting Grace together over the past year. Don Sebesky (a Tony Award winner for Kiss Me, Kate) was the orchestrator, Patricia Birch (Parade) was the choreographer and Eugene Lee (Sweeney Todd, Ragtime) was the set designer. (Rien Bekkers was costume designer, Frans Weisz was the director.)

The fictionalized plot has director Alfred Hitchcock wooing Kelly back to Hollywood, and her being torn between two kingdoms and two forms of royalty — Hitchcock and Rainier. Coleman said Kelly's father is also a major force in the musical.

Coleman and Gaaikema worked together by long distance, with occasional visits to each other's home country.

Original producer Maas, a real estate developer with a passion for the theatre, has been a lifelong fan of the late Kelly, whose fairytale story made her an American Cinderella of the 20th century, "I always admired her movies," Maas previously told Playbill On-Line. "I always admired the way she brought Monaco out of a slump. Every year we went on holiday there...she came on the scene, and all of the sudden you saw Monaco climbing out of its poorness and sadness."

Because of a lack of theatre availability in Holland, Maas constructed the Grace Theatre and adorned the interior with murals showing the palace of Monaco.

 

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