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W Magazine
Article from: W Article date: February 1, 2003 Author: Kerwin, Jessica More results for: grace kelly
Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco held a great fascination for the public at large, both as Philadelphia-born movie star Grace Kelly and in her later, royal incarnation. But on the international social scene, she got mixed reviews. While Paris' queen of society, Marie-Helene de Rothschild, enjoyed her company detractors thought Grace so serene they nicknamed her the Icicle. Friends countered that she was merely nearsighted and unable to wear contact lenses.

W met the legend face to face in 1977 at her Parisian palace on a hill. "I take my job very seriously," the Princess announced. "I don't always take myself so seriously, but always the job."

And she thought she and Prince Rainier were doing a pretty good job, at that "It sounds immodest, but I really don't think there is much people can complain about," she said. "I think people who live there are very fortunate, and I consider myself one of them." Monaco, she proclaimed, was a special place with a bright future.

Of course, for Grace, being royal in a small country had its downside. People recognized her silver English taxicab everywhere she went, and she was never alone. "Sometimes I would just love to go out the door and have a long walk by myself," she said. Alas, an anonymous stroll wasn't one of the royal perks.

"I arrange my life accordingly" the Princess concluded. "After all, I've been doing this for over 20 years."

 

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Chicago Sun Times
Grace' Tries to Revive The Fantasy - and Reality
Article from: Chicago Sun-Times Article date: October 5, 1994 Author: Jonathan Yardley More results for: grace kelly
Grace By Robert Lacey. Putnam's. $24.95.
It has been more than a decade since Princess Grace was killed while driving her Rover at high speed in the hills of southern France, and nearly four decades since the release of "High Society," Grace Kelly's last motion picture. Does anyone still remember her? Does anyone still care?

Perhaps we shall find an answer in the response to Grace, Robert Lacey's unauthorized but reverent biography, which is being issued to great yawps of publicity. A decade or so ago it would have been an automatic best-seller, considering not merely the celebrity of its subject but also the mildly salacious details about her amatory affairs. Now its success may depend on reawakening dormant memories and rekindling interest in a woman who seems seriously if not terminally out of date.

Kelly's movie career was astonishingly brief, considering the amount of attention it gathered. Her first Hollywood film, "High Noon," appeared in 1952 and her last, "High Society," in 1956. In between she played in nine other films of which only four - "Dial M for Murder," "To Catch a Thief," "Rear Window" and "The Country Girl" - have any lasting merit and/or interest.

But then the legend was made of more than mere films. She was a Philadelphia Kelly, a family that radiated WASP style even if, being Irish, they were denied access to the city's elite. Though she was no aristocrat, Grace Kelly had the bearing of one, and her story therefore assumed in the public eye the romance not merely of Hollywood but also of Society.

Furthermore, "though Grace's (vibrancy), polish and self-assurance were in a well-established movie tradition, her implied sexuality was something new. She was clearly experienced in some way that was only hinted at, but this had not been at the cost of her freshness or respectability. She was no virgin, but she was no sl*t either, and . . . she represented as much liberation as the decade of Pollyanna could take."

Not merely were there flings with Clark Gable, Jean Pierre Aumont, Ray Milland, William Holden and Oleg Cassini, there also were a number of anonymous young men with whom she found relief once her marriage to Prince Rainier of Monaco had lost its ardor. By the accounts of those who were willing to discuss these liaisons with Lacey, Kelly had a fine time and was an enthusiastic participant. It should be noted, by the way, that all of the men who spoke to these questions did so with discretion as well as affection.

In many ways the most important man in her life was one with whom she never went to bed: Alfred Hitchcock, the director who shaped the seductive image of Grace Kelly, without which she surely never would have been anything more than an actress whose chilly beauty seemed impenetrable.

The fairy-tale romance with the somewhat unlikely petit prince was followed by the glamorous royal wedding and then by her removal to the picture palace by the sea. It was a movie fantasy made real. That in truth it was considerably less than fantasy was a fact from which the palace, with Grace's active complicity, managed to shield the public.

Rainier's hot temper and cold withdrawal proved difficult but not unbearable. Grace found happiness in her three children, upon whom she doted to excess - for which each in time would pay a heavy price - and she found various good works in which to absorb herself. Her marriage evolved "from romantic love through discord and apathy to a new sort of tolerance and friendship" in which "Grace and Rainier had become each other's best friends."

Her story did not have "a neat or happy ending," which forces Lacey to devote his final pages to a somewhat inconclusive unsnarling of contradictory evidence about the fatal crash, but it certainly had the Hitchcock touch.

 

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The News Letter
Female Times: SCANDAL and BETRAYAL; Grace Kelly held the world spellbound when she married Prince Rainier of Monaco and for a while the legendary curse of the Grimaldis was forgotten. But as LARA BRADLEY found out in a hot new book, Princess Grace's family have been plunged from one scandal and sexual betrayal to another since the tragic death of their matriarch.(Features)
Article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Article date: October 6, 1999 Author: Bradley, Lara More results for: grace kelly
Monaco was on the rocks in the early 1950s when Prince Rainier came up with the bright idea of marrying a Hollywood star to inject some glamour back into his crumbling principality. Marilyn Monroe was considered for the role but her sex-siren image was deemed too vulgar. The ice-blonde actress Grace Kelly seemed an ideal candidate.

The outside world assumed it was a true love match and the beautiful and dignified Roman Catholic Grace was bound to be a virgin bride. In fact according to a new book, she had several passionate love affairs behind her and had gone through a secret abortion.

Before the marriage could go ahead Grace had to face the indignity of having her fertility tested to ensure she could bear the Prince an heir. She dutifully produced three children and used her acting skills to play the part of a perfect fantasy Princess even though, says author John Glatt, she felt trapped and isolated in her loveless marriage to an older man.

She was glamorous and gorgeous and the media just couldn't get enough of her. Prince Rainier's plan had worked beyond his wildest expectations and upper class tourists flooded into the tiny principality bringing their dollars with them.

Years later Princess Grace met a nervous Diana Spencer at her first public engagement and took the young girl under her wing. When the Princess-to-be burst out crying in the ladies loo confessing she couldn't take the pressure of the constant media attention, Princess Grace put her arm around Diana and cooed ''It'll only get worse''.

The parallels between the two women's lives are uncanny and both fairy-tale Princesses died in horrific car crashes. Princess Grace's daughter Stephanie survived the crash that killed her mother and went on to date Dodi Fayed who would later die with his then lover Princess Diana.

Last week saw the publication of a no-holds barred book which reveals all the sex, drugs and rock and roll scandals which have plagued the family since Princess Grace's death. The Ruling House of Monaco: The Story of a Tragic Dynasty is packed with tales of the two rebellious young Princesses who entertained the world with their constant sexploits.

Against her mother's advice the elder daughter Princess Caroline rushed into marriage with an older playboy who broke her heart with his constant philandering. As Princess Grace had predicted the marriage lasted less than two years.

Princess Caroline got divorced but spent the next 12 years pleading with the Pope for an annulment on the grounds of sexual incompatibility. Her second husband died in a power-boat race and Caroline eventually married a real Royal prince, Ernst of Hanover, the man her mother had ear-marked for her years before.

The younger Princess Stephanie rebelled against her regal duties and partied hard, ricocheting from one madly, passionate affair to the next. She was often photographed in compromising positions with unsuitable men and even fell head over heels for a convicted sex offender. The world was scandalised when she had two illegitimate children with her bodyguard who was later filmed having sex with a stripper.

Prince Albert's numerous love affairs have not been splashed across the world's press to the same degree as his sister's infamous indiscretions but as the book reveals, there have been no shortage of paternity suits against the international playboy. And so far his father has refused to hand over the reins of power to an heir who seems destined never to grow up.

Glatt claims to have been able to talk to Prince Albert, Princess Grace's sister and many friends who helped him 'put everything in perspective.' But at the end of the day his story reveals what we all know, that Grace and Diana were the only true fairytale Princesses of this century and neither lived happily ever after.

 

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World of Hibernia
The Princess Grace Irish library.
Article from: World of Hibernia Article date: March 22, 2001 Author: Stewart, Bruce More results for: grace kelly
Almost twenty years after her tragic death in 1982, the memory of Princess Grace lives on in many hearts. For the generation that knew her charm and beauty, Grace Patricia Kelly lived up perfectly to her name. For Irish Americans she was a beacon for their hopes and an icon of what they had become in the New World.

The Kellys, whose grandfather left a small farm near Westport in County Mayo, had achieved much in the way of financial success and social standing in Philadelphia by means of a contracting company and Catholic education. John B. Kelly, the actress' father, had even won fame as an Olympic rowing medallist but his lovely daughter, born in 1929, became a household name around the world through such films as High Noon (1952) and the series that she made under the direction of Alfred Hitchcock, Dial M For Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). In 1956 she became the stuff of legend when she married HSH Prince Rainier III of Monaco, the oldest ruling dynasty in Europe.

Following her marriage to HSH Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, she paid homage to her Irish origins by assembling a collection of Irish literature and music as a valued part of her extensive library in the Palais Princier.

This now forms the core of the Princess Grace Irish Library, established under the aegis of the Princess Grace Foundation in 1984. The Library occupies a handsome three-storey building in the pretty old town of Monaco-Ville whose pretty streets lead to the Sovereign's Palace at the other end of fortified "Rock" that overlooks the port. Adorned with balconies, a marble fire-place in the French style and all the accoutrements of a noble house, it has a fine Reading Room with a painted ceiling in the Baroque style as well as a book-lined auditorium where writers and speakers address invited audiences once a month during the annual lecture season.

At the core of the Library is a set of books acquired from Count Gerald Edward O'Kelly de Gallach, an Irish ambassador best-remembered for securing a tea-supply for Ireland during World War II. Kept separately from the rest of the 8,000-strong collection, these comprise a classic 19th century Irish library replete with Irish annals in translation and works of Anglo-Irish writers "vindicating" Gaelic civilisation against the charges of Normans scribes such as Giraldus Cambrensis. Other books include memoirs of the Wild Geese, biographies of United Irishmen and Fenians, and modern studies of Charles Stewart Parnell and many other figures, together with a wide selection of Irish tours and local histories by authors such as Arthur Young, Mr. & Mrs Hall, Sir John Gilbert, Charles Gavan Duffy, and so forth.

A separate cabinet holds Princess Grace's personal collection of Irish sheet-music containing some 2,000 items, predominantly American. Princess Grace's personal collection has been much augmented by the purchase of whole libraries from such eminent scholars as Professor A. N. Jeffares and Professor Ann Saddlemyer, respectively the founding father of Irish Yeatsian scholarship and the editor of Synge's Plays. Further treasures have arrived as individual gifts including the celebrated Swiss facsimile of The Book of Kells presented by Dr. Michael Smurfit, Honorary Irish Consul to the Principality, and a beautifully wrought 17th century Spanish atlas of "Hibernia," donated by Prince Rainier himself.

The Library also holds a valuable collection of first editions of modern authors donated by Mungo Park, a descendent of the family that occupied Park Castle on the shores of Lough Gill in County Sligo. In an adjacent room can be found an up-to-date collection of novels, plays and poetry acquired by means of the annual acquisition budget, while a wide selection of commentary and criticism purchased in the same way caters to the needs of visiting academics and students. Art works in the Library include heads of Wilde and Yeats made by the distinguished Dutch sculptor Kees Verkade, a small canvas by Jack B. Yeats donated by Dr. Smurfit, a head of James Joyce in the famous series by Louis Le Brocquy and donated by the artist, along with paintings by Markey Robinson, among others. A full-length oil portrait of Princess Grace adorns the entrance hall. In a small annex nearby some furnishings from W. B. Yeats' last place of residence at Hotel Ideal Sejour in
nearby Roquebrune is preserved, including the telephone and hat rack from his room.

 

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Pt 2 of the article
World of Hibernia
The Library is administered by a Board of Trustees comprising M. Jean-Claude Riey (Tresorier de la Fondation Princesse Grace), M. Philippe Blanchi (Conseiller au Cabinet de SAS le Prince Souverain), Mrs. Paul Gallico (Lady-in-Waiting to the Palace) and Mme. Nadia Lacoste (former Press Attachee to the Palace and Chairman of the PGIL Literary Committee). I myself serve as Conseiller Litteraire (Literary Director) with responsibility to the Trustees and the Literary Committee for acquisitions, conference seasons, the invitation of visiting lecturers and matters relating to the Library's cultural programme. Miss Judith Gantley (Librarian) maintains the catalogs and conducts much of the correspondence with visitors and the press while Mrs. Caroline O'Conor (Library Administrator) organises the business side of things and keeps me firmly on the right track in organisational terms.

The Library has hosted several international conferences since its inception. Distinguished critical collections on W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett resulted from several occasions conducted under the directorship of Professor George C. Sandulescu. In 1998 a memorable conference was convened on the subject of "The Supernatural and Fantastic in Irish Literature" under my direction. In October 2000 fifteeen leading scholars convened to discuss 19th century Ireland--among them Tom Bartlett, Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Luke Gibbons, J. W. Foster, Roy Foster, Liam Kennedy, W. J. McCormack and Marianne Elliott. Their contributions will appear in book-form under the title Hearts and Minds: Culture and Society in Ireland Under the Act of Union later this spring. In July 2002 the Princess Grace Irish Library will host a conference of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) addressing the theme "Minor to Major: The
Development and Reception of Modern Irish Writing." As with the earlier large-scale events, this will result in a brace of volumes in a publishing series that now runs to twelve titles.

In 2000 the Princess Grace Irish Library took a giant step into cyberspace with the launch of PGIL-EIRData, a large-scale website that provides biographies, bibliographies and up-to-date commentary on more than 4,300 Irish authors. EIRData is the outcome of a project conducted on the Coleraine campus of the University of Ulster under contract with the Princess Grace Foundation. The EIRData team currently consists of Ms. Mari McKay (Research Officer), Mr. Robert Lecky (Informatics Officer), Dr. Maurice Harmon (Academic Adviser) and myself as Director. The six million-word website and its varied contents can now be explored online at http://www.pgil-eirdata.org. PGIL-EIRData also contains a complete listing of Irish publications year by year since 1990 along with select bibliographies in special topic areas and descriptive bibliographies of leading literary journals. A start has also been made on a comprehensive "Gazette of Irish Studies," which will
incorporate the curriculum vitae of hundreds of scholars connected with scholarly associations and Irish-studies centers throughout the world. Like other areas of the website, the result will be electronically searchable, making it possible not only to identify the authors of works on any Irish writer or topic but also to reach them directly by mail or email. PGIL-EIRData also contains a photo gallery of Irish authors and a lively Bulletin devoted to current publishing events and academic conferences.

PGIL-EIRData was launched by HSH Crown Prince Albert of Monaco and HE Mrs. Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, at a ceremony in Monte Carlo on October 7, 2000. After a brief tour of the site, President McAleese signed up as the first registered user in the Debussy Room of the Hotel de Paris. In a short speech on that occasion she thanked the creators of the website for their valued contribution to Ireland's Diaspora culture and congratulated the Ireland Fund of Monaco for their vision in underwriting the Project.

The President particularly welcomed the idea of enlisting young scholars to work on the website and praised their obvious dedication. Later in the evening HSH Crown Prince Albert addressed the members of Ireland Fund of Monaco and their guests at a Gala Dinner in the Salle Empire of the Hotel de Paris that brought the weekend's fundraising events to conclusion. Prince Albert spoke of the pride and pleasure he felt in knowing that his mother's warm regard for all things Irish had been commemorated by reaching out on Internet to Irish communities everywhere in the world in such a special way:

"When my mother started collecting Irish music and
books by Irish writers she found it answered a heartfelt
need in strengthening the link she already felt with her
Irish ancestors, the Kellys of County Mayo. Out of respect
for that sentiment, my father authorised the creation of the
Princess Grace Irish Library in 1984 so that her books
could be enjoyed by all those who cared about the same
things as she did. Today, the Library has taken another
important step in
its history by
adding PGIL-EIRData
to its contribution
to Irish
studies worldwide,
Through it, her
name will reach
every corner of the
world where people
care about Irish
cultural achievements
and Irish
cultural heritage.
I am certain she
must be very pleased." Also present as Distinguished
Guests of the Ireland Fund of Monaco were Professor
Gerry McKenna and Professor Terence
O'Keeffe, respectively Vice-Chancellor and
Dean of Humanities of the University that
hosts the project. Addressing the Fund earlier
in the weekend, Professor McKenna
said: "The PGIL-EIRDATA project is both
a real and symbolic bridge between Ireland
and Monaco; between Ireland's past and its
future; and between the world of
Gutenberg and the Internet. It has been
said that the Internet is Ireland's Channel
Tunnel. It is indeed true that the power
of technology to address locational peripherality
will yield rich dividends in the new century. The
University is glad to be part of this project, and we are
grateful for the faith shown in us by the Ireland Fund of
Monaco, and to all the Ireland Funds who have contributed
to so many groundbreaking projects in Ireland. It
is the faith shown in us and in our future that has brought
our people together, and will give us the confidence to
compete as first citizens in the new global society"

 

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