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thanks everybody for the wonderful pictures, especially christiane and pipoca for the scans!
pipoca, that's a great article you posted! it is always interesting to see pictures of Grace when she was a teenager.
And Christiane love that picture of Grace, Rainier, and friends having fun in the ocean. Thanks
eyedea
pipoca, that's a great article you posted! it is always interesting to see pictures of Grace when she was a teenager.
And Christiane love that picture of Grace, Rainier, and friends having fun in the ocean. Thanks
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(VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER, France) — More than half a century ago, Grace Kelly began the arduous process of learning French after she married Prince Rainier and settled into life in the palace in Monaco at age 26. Today, the woman reportedly set to become the next Princess of Monaco, the South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, 30, is taking the opposite tack.
Wittstock is already ensconced in an apartment at the Palace in Monaco near Prince Albert, 50, and has been studying at the most exclusive — and intensive — French language school in the world, the Institut de Francais in Villefranche-sur-Mer — eight miles west of Monte Carlo on the French Riviera. Wittstock is the latest in a steady stream of diplomats, world financial powerbrokers, actresses (Kathy Bates, Kate Capshaw and Britain's Honor Blackman), athletes and royalty (Queen Sonja of Norway was a recent student) to attend the Institut hoping its unusual methods will help them perfect French.
Housed in a hillside villa overlooking the Mediterranean, the school was founded in 1969 by Jean Colbert, a former French aerospace scientist and Columbia professor and his wife Madeleine. The Colberts based their teaching principles on a scientific survey of the 1500 words used most often by French people in cafes, buses and subways. "We're interested in getting students to open their mouths and speak French," says Frédéric Latty, one of the school's administrators. "We don't spend a lot of time on vocabulary that you'll never use."
Most students, who range in age from 21 to 75, live in school-run apartments scattered on the hillside and walk to the Institute every morning. After being tested on the first day, they are assigned to beginner, intermediate, or advanced classes. Between 75 and 80 students enroll in each month-long session. The course costs 2500 Euros ($3165) during the off-peak season and 3100 Euros ($3920) during high season. Although students come from all over the world, including America, England, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia, they all have one thing in common: They're Francophiles.
Rick Posner, 56, a court reporter from San Francisco who attended the Institute recently, said he fell in love with the French language when he was a 16-year-old high school student. "I even thought I'd eventually become a French teacher," he said. "But then life took over and my French went on the back burner. I lost a lot of it. I always regretted it." When he came to the Institute recently, Posner said he was realizing a lifelong dream. "I felt I was finally living out my high school fantasy," he said. "And when I left the school, I was really speaking French." No one is exempt from classes that begin every day at 9 a.m. and do not end until 4:45 p.m., five days a week for a month. Students are fined one euro if the teachers them speaking any language other than French. Even beginners have to deliver an oral report in French.
"We get many people who are used to being leaders in their field," says Jean Segarra, the school's principal teacher who has been there for more than 25 years. "Then suddenly they are in a situation where they are not in control and are in the same boat as everyone else. It can be a humbling experience."
Students spend 45 minutes a day in a language laboratory or "chambre de torture." But the tougher sessions are made more palatable by afternoon "séance pratiques" during which, for example, students learn the history of various French cheeses and wine or how to make chocolate crepes — and partake of what they've just learned at the end. For many, the school is so addictive (and the perfection of French so tantalizingly out of reach) — that they return over and over again. The record is held by a San Antonio couple, Margie and Charles Kilpatrick, who have taken the Institute's course 11 times. A number of wealthier American alumni have even bought homes in Villefranche. As for Wittstock, whose engagement to Prince Albert is said to be imminent, she is making rapid progress.
"She has the ear," Latty said simply. "It's just a matter of time." Nadia Lacoste, who served as the spokeswoman for Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier for almost 50 years, said the princess, in contrast, struggled with her second language.
"She was not truly comfortable speaking French for many years," said Lacoste, who now lives in Paris. "When they started getting older, Albert and Caroline would correct her all the time. She never lost her American accent but many people found it charming."
(VILLEFRANCHE-SUR-MER, France) — More than half a century ago, Grace Kelly began the arduous process of learning French after she married Prince Rainier and settled into life in the palace in Monaco at age 26. Today, the woman reportedly set to become the next Princess of Monaco, the South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock, 30, is taking the opposite tack.
Wittstock is already ensconced in an apartment at the Palace in Monaco near Prince Albert, 50, and has been studying at the most exclusive — and intensive — French language school in the world, the Institut de Francais in Villefranche-sur-Mer — eight miles west of Monte Carlo on the French Riviera. Wittstock is the latest in a steady stream of diplomats, world financial powerbrokers, actresses (Kathy Bates, Kate Capshaw and Britain's Honor Blackman), athletes and royalty (Queen Sonja of Norway was a recent student) to attend the Institut hoping its unusual methods will help them perfect French.
Housed in a hillside villa overlooking the Mediterranean, the school was founded in 1969 by Jean Colbert, a former French aerospace scientist and Columbia professor and his wife Madeleine. The Colberts based their teaching principles on a scientific survey of the 1500 words used most often by French people in cafes, buses and subways. "We're interested in getting students to open their mouths and speak French," says Frédéric Latty, one of the school's administrators. "We don't spend a lot of time on vocabulary that you'll never use."
Most students, who range in age from 21 to 75, live in school-run apartments scattered on the hillside and walk to the Institute every morning. After being tested on the first day, they are assigned to beginner, intermediate, or advanced classes. Between 75 and 80 students enroll in each month-long session. The course costs 2500 Euros ($3165) during the off-peak season and 3100 Euros ($3920) during high season. Although students come from all over the world, including America, England, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia, they all have one thing in common: They're Francophiles.
Rick Posner, 56, a court reporter from San Francisco who attended the Institute recently, said he fell in love with the French language when he was a 16-year-old high school student. "I even thought I'd eventually become a French teacher," he said. "But then life took over and my French went on the back burner. I lost a lot of it. I always regretted it." When he came to the Institute recently, Posner said he was realizing a lifelong dream. "I felt I was finally living out my high school fantasy," he said. "And when I left the school, I was really speaking French." No one is exempt from classes that begin every day at 9 a.m. and do not end until 4:45 p.m., five days a week for a month. Students are fined one euro if the teachers them speaking any language other than French. Even beginners have to deliver an oral report in French.
"We get many people who are used to being leaders in their field," says Jean Segarra, the school's principal teacher who has been there for more than 25 years. "Then suddenly they are in a situation where they are not in control and are in the same boat as everyone else. It can be a humbling experience."
Students spend 45 minutes a day in a language laboratory or "chambre de torture." But the tougher sessions are made more palatable by afternoon "séance pratiques" during which, for example, students learn the history of various French cheeses and wine or how to make chocolate crepes — and partake of what they've just learned at the end. For many, the school is so addictive (and the perfection of French so tantalizingly out of reach) — that they return over and over again. The record is held by a San Antonio couple, Margie and Charles Kilpatrick, who have taken the Institute's course 11 times. A number of wealthier American alumni have even bought homes in Villefranche. As for Wittstock, whose engagement to Prince Albert is said to be imminent, she is making rapid progress.
"She has the ear," Latty said simply. "It's just a matter of time." Nadia Lacoste, who served as the spokeswoman for Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier for almost 50 years, said the princess, in contrast, struggled with her second language.
"She was not truly comfortable speaking French for many years," said Lacoste, who now lives in Paris. "When they started getting older, Albert and Caroline would correct her all the time. She never lost her American accent but many people found it charming."
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NOVEMBER 14, 1978: King William’s Town – Princess Grace of Monaco has turned down a request by Mrs Vera Zasman, of Piet Retief Avenue here, to copy the dress the princess wore to the wedding of her daughter, Princess Caroline. Mrs Zasman, who is the wife of businessman, Mr Ken Zasman, and works for the weekly newspaper, The Mercury, would have loved to wear a copy of Princess Grace’s dress at the wedding on December 17 of Adrienne, her daughter, to Mr Julian Meltz of East London. In turning down the request Princess Grace wrote: “The dress was made by a high-fashion designer and, as such, is an exclusivity.”
NOVEMBER 14, 1978: King William’s Town – Princess Grace of Monaco has turned down a request by Mrs Vera Zasman, of Piet Retief Avenue here, to copy the dress the princess wore to the wedding of her daughter, Princess Caroline. Mrs Zasman, who is the wife of businessman, Mr Ken Zasman, and works for the weekly newspaper, The Mercury, would have loved to wear a copy of Princess Grace’s dress at the wedding on December 17 of Adrienne, her daughter, to Mr Julian Meltz of East London. In turning down the request Princess Grace wrote: “The dress was made by a high-fashion designer and, as such, is an exclusivity.”
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Author releases latest in County Chronicles series
By Barbara Hollenbaugh
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Buzz up!
Time travelers, aboard.
The fourth volume of award-winning author and historian Ceane O'Hanlon Lincoln's "County Chronicles" series is ready to launch readers into a journey through Pennsylvania's past.
As always, O'Hanlon Lincoln focuses heavily on southwestern Pennsylvania. In this book, however, she pays tribute to several famous Pennsylvanians who hail from Philadelphia, including Grace Kelly and Margaret Meade.
Philadelphia was our first capital, our 'Queen City,'" said O'Hanlon Lincoln.
She depicts Princess Grace as a down-to-earth person who never forgot her roots.
"She was brought up to be economical; she never forgot the lessons of the Great Depression," O'Hanlon Lincoln said. "She made sure her children were well grounded also; they had their chores, just like other children.
"Princess Grace and her husband, Prince Ranier, had a summer home just above their palace. They had no servants there; Princess Grace tended the home; Prince Rainier tended the outside."
In reference to Margaret Meade, O'Hanlon Lincoln praised her intellectual independence.
"She came from an intellectual family," O'Hanlon Lincoln said. "Her parents encouraged her intellectual independence at an early age."
She portrays Meade as a balanced person, who could do groundbreaking research without sacrificing traditional crafts.
"Meade always enjoyed combining ideas and people," O'Hanlon Lincoln writes. "She also enjoyed combining vegetables, seasonings and greens for the perfect salad. All her appetites were hearty; she ate with gusto, drank with gusto and travelled and studied with the same voracious hunger for knowledge."
One thing that remains unchanged is the variety of areas O'Hanlon Lincoln covers in her books.
An avid baseball fan, O'Hanlon Lincoln shares her account of the 1960 World Series, in which the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the vaunted New York Yankees. "Some of the greatest players on both teams were playing in that game." O'Hanlon Lincoln recalled. "Roberto Clemente for the Pirates, and Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle for the Yankees."
She recounts how as an eighth-grade student at St. Rita's School, Connellsville, she pulled a few strings to watch the game.
"I asked the nuns if my father could bring in his portable television; they enthusiastically said 'yes'. The nuns were cheering for the Pirates, saying Rosaries for them."
She highlights military achievements as well in her chronicle on the Martin brothers, Robert and Wayne of Dunbar. Robert served in the 208th Combat Engineer Battalion, which saw action on D-Day; Wayne served in the 60th Field Hospital, which helped defend the Falaise Gap. Both brothers were knighted by the French Government for helping to defend France.
O'Hanlon Lincoln also pays tribute to Mill Run native Virginia Eberharter, commander of the Navy Nurse Corps. Eberharter served in both World War II and Korea. "She never married. She dedicated herself completely to her job," O'Hanlon Lincoln said.
O'Hanlon Lincoln said her primary mission is to make history come alive for her readers.
"Many people say that they don't like history," she said. "I reply, 'Do you like a good story, well told, then you like history."
History is, above all else, a story.
"History is a story about a small town, about a country. Most of all, it's a story about people," she said.
The books is available for purchase by contacting Mechling Books at 1-800-941-3735 or at www.mechlingbooks.com or by calling the author directly at 724-626-1817.
Author releases latest in County Chronicles series
By Barbara Hollenbaugh
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Buzz up!
Time travelers, aboard.
The fourth volume of award-winning author and historian Ceane O'Hanlon Lincoln's "County Chronicles" series is ready to launch readers into a journey through Pennsylvania's past.
As always, O'Hanlon Lincoln focuses heavily on southwestern Pennsylvania. In this book, however, she pays tribute to several famous Pennsylvanians who hail from Philadelphia, including Grace Kelly and Margaret Meade.
Philadelphia was our first capital, our 'Queen City,'" said O'Hanlon Lincoln.
She depicts Princess Grace as a down-to-earth person who never forgot her roots.
"She was brought up to be economical; she never forgot the lessons of the Great Depression," O'Hanlon Lincoln said. "She made sure her children were well grounded also; they had their chores, just like other children.
"Princess Grace and her husband, Prince Ranier, had a summer home just above their palace. They had no servants there; Princess Grace tended the home; Prince Rainier tended the outside."
In reference to Margaret Meade, O'Hanlon Lincoln praised her intellectual independence.
"She came from an intellectual family," O'Hanlon Lincoln said. "Her parents encouraged her intellectual independence at an early age."
She portrays Meade as a balanced person, who could do groundbreaking research without sacrificing traditional crafts.
"Meade always enjoyed combining ideas and people," O'Hanlon Lincoln writes. "She also enjoyed combining vegetables, seasonings and greens for the perfect salad. All her appetites were hearty; she ate with gusto, drank with gusto and travelled and studied with the same voracious hunger for knowledge."
One thing that remains unchanged is the variety of areas O'Hanlon Lincoln covers in her books.
An avid baseball fan, O'Hanlon Lincoln shares her account of the 1960 World Series, in which the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the vaunted New York Yankees. "Some of the greatest players on both teams were playing in that game." O'Hanlon Lincoln recalled. "Roberto Clemente for the Pirates, and Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle for the Yankees."
She recounts how as an eighth-grade student at St. Rita's School, Connellsville, she pulled a few strings to watch the game.
"I asked the nuns if my father could bring in his portable television; they enthusiastically said 'yes'. The nuns were cheering for the Pirates, saying Rosaries for them."
She highlights military achievements as well in her chronicle on the Martin brothers, Robert and Wayne of Dunbar. Robert served in the 208th Combat Engineer Battalion, which saw action on D-Day; Wayne served in the 60th Field Hospital, which helped defend the Falaise Gap. Both brothers were knighted by the French Government for helping to defend France.
O'Hanlon Lincoln also pays tribute to Mill Run native Virginia Eberharter, commander of the Navy Nurse Corps. Eberharter served in both World War II and Korea. "She never married. She dedicated herself completely to her job," O'Hanlon Lincoln said.
O'Hanlon Lincoln said her primary mission is to make history come alive for her readers.
"Many people say that they don't like history," she said. "I reply, 'Do you like a good story, well told, then you like history."
History is, above all else, a story.
"History is a story about a small town, about a country. Most of all, it's a story about people," she said.
The books is available for purchase by contacting Mechling Books at 1-800-941-3735 or at www.mechlingbooks.com or by calling the author directly at 724-626-1817.
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AMAZING GRACE; Less is more: Grace's timeless elegance is being mirrored on the catwalk by Dior (right), Diane von Furstenberg (below far left) and Viktor &Rolf (below).
Article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Article date: August 13, 2007 More results for: grace kelly
Byline: LIZ JONES
THERE is a moment in cinema that sums up what it is to be chic,beautiful, immaculately dressed and unbelievably sexy. It is when Grace Kellyannounces to a stunned Jimmy Stewart, in 1954's Rear Window, that she is aboutto spend the night in his apartment.
She unlocks her tiny case and a sheer negligee spills out, along with a pair ofslippers.
In the film, Kelly plays a fashion model who proudly declares she 'never wearsthe same dress twice', and her wardrobe for that film was, indeed, a lesson inelegance: the pale green suit with unfitted jacket, white halter-neck blouse,belt, hat with veil and gloves: perfect career woman attire.
Or how about 1955's To Catch A Thief, in which she rendered Capri pants,headscarves, sunglasses and extravagant jewellery fresh and new.
Or Dial M For Murder, in which her entire wardrobe, bought off the peg bar onered lace dress, gets progressively darker and more fitted as the plot thickens.
The 1950s might seem a distant decade to look to for fashion influences,especially as today's young women have neither pointy breasts nor wasp waists.But it is that decade, along with the 'Grace Kelly Look'as it was dubbed triumphantly by style bible Women's Wear Daily in 1955,applauding the Oscar-winning actress' 'fresh type of natural glamour'that is about to enjoy a renaissance.
Come this autumn/winter, exactly 25 years after Princess Grace's prematuredeath in a car crash at the age of 52, that look is well and truly back infashion.
Born in 1929, Grace Kelly was already rich before she became a film star,thanks to an endowment bestowed on her by her father, Jack, a Philadelphianbusinessman.
Grace wasn't a debutante, despite what early press releases would have had usbelieve, but she exuded intelligence and class from every pore.
It was her mother, Margaret, a teacher, who gave her daughter not only herdrive and discipline, but also a lithe ballerina's figure and a love ofclothes, especially hats always, always hats and white cotton gloves.
Don't believe me that the icecool Grace Kelly style is remotely relevant orwearable this autumn? Well, she was the first to wear casual sportswearsimple white shirts, stone Capri pants, flat loafers, shirtdresses, safariwear, jeans, headscarves and turbansand make them all instantly and effortlessly glamourous.
She understood that to wear casual well, she had to have understated make-up,squeaky-clean, shiny hair and be impeccably groomed.
She also made the soft, tailored tweed skirt-suitseen everywhere on the catwalk this autumn, from John Rocha to Jil Sanderboth sexy and modern. She washow can I put it?the ultimate in antibling; even her beloved simple pearls, which she alwayswore, are desirable again.
The main lesson we can all learn from Grace Kelly, herself a former fashionmodel, is how to look ladylike: I can no more imagine her in skinny jeans,wedges and a sequinned floaty top than I can picture her To Catch A Thiefco-star Cary Grant in trainers and a hoodie.
After what seems like years of the designers insisting we all dress likechildren in trapezeshaped shifts, miniskirts and smocks, grown-up tailoring(welcome sigh of relief) is about to make a comeback. Skirts are below theknee, waists nipped in, shoulders broad and everything is discreet, covered up,classy.
Unlike her blonde bombshell contemporaries (Monroe, Bardot and their ilk),Kelly wasn't overtly sexual (in fact, when she was working as a model, onephotographer complained she had 'no oomph, no cheesecake').
No, she was a fresh-faced girl next door, refusing calls from studios who urgedher to enhance her bosom. A clever cover line on Time magazine read 'Gentlemenprefer ladies', while fashion historian Colin McDowell observed: 'Her peerlessbeauty was more calculated to repel the rude advance than succumb to it.' Andthis autumn, looking classy and womanly rather than gamine and pre-pubescent isthe order of the day.
Grace Kelly also invented the current mania for expensive accessories. She wasintroduced to Hermes by her friend, the Oscar-winning costume designer EdithHead, while shopping in Paris for the wardrobe for To Catch A Thief. She boughtso much in the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore store that she ran out of money,prompting Miss Head to announce: 'Gloves and shoes are the only things whereGrace loses count of money.' She was also the first to adopt the monsterhandbagshe carried a giant tote on her honeymoon and days later thousands of copieswere being made.
As observed by Bronwyn Cosgrave in Made For Each Other, her in-depth history offashion at the Oscars: 'At Hermes, Kelly peeled off her trademark white clothgloves, slipped in and out of the butter-soft suede models and hand-embroideredleathers offered up to her on a silver tray, and became hooked on the label.'The Hermes saddlebag she carried to conceal her pregnancy bump was named afterher and today the Kelly bag still has the longest waiting list in the world,despite prices starting from around [pounds sterling]5,000.
Grace Kelly was also discreet, perhaps because of her shyness.
She hated talking about her private life, refusing to give reporters her vitalstatistics. We know from her modelling days she was 5ft 612in and wore anAmerican size 10, which was then the smallest size that could be bought off therails. It is a shame the current It girls in Hollywoodthe Lindsay Lohans and Mischa Bartons of this world haven't followed suit.
The only star I can think of today who comes close to the Kelly mantra isGwyneth Paltrow, closely followed by Scarlett Johansson, who was recentlystyled for the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign as a latter-day Grace Kelly,complete with an immaculate honey-hued chignon.
And although Grace Kelly was a patron of Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga,Chanel, Madame Gres and Yves Saint Laurent, she was famously loyal to theclothes she bought and reluctant to throw them away, only purchasing newoutfits on a modest scale.
Grace 'couldn't drop something just because it went out of fashion; she wasvery sentimental about her clothes,' recalled actress Rita Gam, a lifelongfriend.
This autumn, more and more women are moving away from the 'wear it and chuckit' mentality of cheap clothing, and instead buying what they love and whatsuits them what is ageless, well-made and flattering.
Grace Kelly ended her movie career prematurely when she married Prince Rainierof Monaco on April 19, 1956. HER IVORY wedding dress was made by anotherOscarwinning Hollywood costumier, Helen Rose of MGM, and was made up of 300yards of antique Brussels rose-point lace, 25 yards of heavy taffeta, 100 yardsof silk net, 25 yards of silk taffeta, with a 3ft train and tulle veil, allstudded with pearls. It is now on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I love that for her honeymoon, she took seven evening gowns, six cocktaildresses, 16 'day costumes' and numerous suits, coats and furs, and hundreds ofhats, bags and pairs of shoes, all of which she had packed herself, plus herblack poodle, Oliver.
I also love that the white organdie hat she wore on arrival in Monaco, whichresembled a giant mushroom, was universally panned in the Press because it hidher perfect, symmetrical face and threatened to take wing across the water.
It is somehow reassuring to know that the Press has always liked to pick apartthe attire of celebrities, no matter how elevated they become.
Grace Kelly fell out of fashion favour in the 1960s, being far too prim andconventional in her role as royal wife and mother (although she later fell inlove with the brightly-coloured clothes by Emilio Pucci, and was known to wearthe odd kaftan), but she continued to look effortlessly understated in a wayour Royal Family, even Princess Diana, never quite managed.
It is a shame we never got to see her grow old. As the fashion designer KarlLagerfeld said: 'I am sure [if she were alive today], even at nearly 80, shewould be stunning.' She would indeed.
AMAZING GRACE; Less is more: Grace's timeless elegance is being mirrored on the catwalk by Dior (right), Diane von Furstenberg (below far left) and Viktor &Rolf (below).
Article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Article date: August 13, 2007 More results for: grace kelly
Byline: LIZ JONES
THERE is a moment in cinema that sums up what it is to be chic,beautiful, immaculately dressed and unbelievably sexy. It is when Grace Kellyannounces to a stunned Jimmy Stewart, in 1954's Rear Window, that she is aboutto spend the night in his apartment.
She unlocks her tiny case and a sheer negligee spills out, along with a pair ofslippers.
In the film, Kelly plays a fashion model who proudly declares she 'never wearsthe same dress twice', and her wardrobe for that film was, indeed, a lesson inelegance: the pale green suit with unfitted jacket, white halter-neck blouse,belt, hat with veil and gloves: perfect career woman attire.
Or how about 1955's To Catch A Thief, in which she rendered Capri pants,headscarves, sunglasses and extravagant jewellery fresh and new.
Or Dial M For Murder, in which her entire wardrobe, bought off the peg bar onered lace dress, gets progressively darker and more fitted as the plot thickens.
The 1950s might seem a distant decade to look to for fashion influences,especially as today's young women have neither pointy breasts nor wasp waists.But it is that decade, along with the 'Grace Kelly Look'as it was dubbed triumphantly by style bible Women's Wear Daily in 1955,applauding the Oscar-winning actress' 'fresh type of natural glamour'that is about to enjoy a renaissance.
Come this autumn/winter, exactly 25 years after Princess Grace's prematuredeath in a car crash at the age of 52, that look is well and truly back infashion.
Born in 1929, Grace Kelly was already rich before she became a film star,thanks to an endowment bestowed on her by her father, Jack, a Philadelphianbusinessman.
Grace wasn't a debutante, despite what early press releases would have had usbelieve, but she exuded intelligence and class from every pore.
It was her mother, Margaret, a teacher, who gave her daughter not only herdrive and discipline, but also a lithe ballerina's figure and a love ofclothes, especially hats always, always hats and white cotton gloves.
Don't believe me that the icecool Grace Kelly style is remotely relevant orwearable this autumn? Well, she was the first to wear casual sportswearsimple white shirts, stone Capri pants, flat loafers, shirtdresses, safariwear, jeans, headscarves and turbansand make them all instantly and effortlessly glamourous.
She understood that to wear casual well, she had to have understated make-up,squeaky-clean, shiny hair and be impeccably groomed.
She also made the soft, tailored tweed skirt-suitseen everywhere on the catwalk this autumn, from John Rocha to Jil Sanderboth sexy and modern. She washow can I put it?the ultimate in antibling; even her beloved simple pearls, which she alwayswore, are desirable again.
The main lesson we can all learn from Grace Kelly, herself a former fashionmodel, is how to look ladylike: I can no more imagine her in skinny jeans,wedges and a sequinned floaty top than I can picture her To Catch A Thiefco-star Cary Grant in trainers and a hoodie.
After what seems like years of the designers insisting we all dress likechildren in trapezeshaped shifts, miniskirts and smocks, grown-up tailoring(welcome sigh of relief) is about to make a comeback. Skirts are below theknee, waists nipped in, shoulders broad and everything is discreet, covered up,classy.
Unlike her blonde bombshell contemporaries (Monroe, Bardot and their ilk),Kelly wasn't overtly sexual (in fact, when she was working as a model, onephotographer complained she had 'no oomph, no cheesecake').
No, she was a fresh-faced girl next door, refusing calls from studios who urgedher to enhance her bosom. A clever cover line on Time magazine read 'Gentlemenprefer ladies', while fashion historian Colin McDowell observed: 'Her peerlessbeauty was more calculated to repel the rude advance than succumb to it.' Andthis autumn, looking classy and womanly rather than gamine and pre-pubescent isthe order of the day.
Grace Kelly also invented the current mania for expensive accessories. She wasintroduced to Hermes by her friend, the Oscar-winning costume designer EdithHead, while shopping in Paris for the wardrobe for To Catch A Thief. She boughtso much in the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore store that she ran out of money,prompting Miss Head to announce: 'Gloves and shoes are the only things whereGrace loses count of money.' She was also the first to adopt the monsterhandbagshe carried a giant tote on her honeymoon and days later thousands of copieswere being made.
As observed by Bronwyn Cosgrave in Made For Each Other, her in-depth history offashion at the Oscars: 'At Hermes, Kelly peeled off her trademark white clothgloves, slipped in and out of the butter-soft suede models and hand-embroideredleathers offered up to her on a silver tray, and became hooked on the label.'The Hermes saddlebag she carried to conceal her pregnancy bump was named afterher and today the Kelly bag still has the longest waiting list in the world,despite prices starting from around [pounds sterling]5,000.
Grace Kelly was also discreet, perhaps because of her shyness.
She hated talking about her private life, refusing to give reporters her vitalstatistics. We know from her modelling days she was 5ft 612in and wore anAmerican size 10, which was then the smallest size that could be bought off therails. It is a shame the current It girls in Hollywoodthe Lindsay Lohans and Mischa Bartons of this world haven't followed suit.
The only star I can think of today who comes close to the Kelly mantra isGwyneth Paltrow, closely followed by Scarlett Johansson, who was recentlystyled for the Louis Vuitton advertising campaign as a latter-day Grace Kelly,complete with an immaculate honey-hued chignon.
And although Grace Kelly was a patron of Christian Dior, Cristobal Balenciaga,Chanel, Madame Gres and Yves Saint Laurent, she was famously loyal to theclothes she bought and reluctant to throw them away, only purchasing newoutfits on a modest scale.
Grace 'couldn't drop something just because it went out of fashion; she wasvery sentimental about her clothes,' recalled actress Rita Gam, a lifelongfriend.
This autumn, more and more women are moving away from the 'wear it and chuckit' mentality of cheap clothing, and instead buying what they love and whatsuits them what is ageless, well-made and flattering.
Grace Kelly ended her movie career prematurely when she married Prince Rainierof Monaco on April 19, 1956. HER IVORY wedding dress was made by anotherOscarwinning Hollywood costumier, Helen Rose of MGM, and was made up of 300yards of antique Brussels rose-point lace, 25 yards of heavy taffeta, 100 yardsof silk net, 25 yards of silk taffeta, with a 3ft train and tulle veil, allstudded with pearls. It is now on display in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
I love that for her honeymoon, she took seven evening gowns, six cocktaildresses, 16 'day costumes' and numerous suits, coats and furs, and hundreds ofhats, bags and pairs of shoes, all of which she had packed herself, plus herblack poodle, Oliver.
I also love that the white organdie hat she wore on arrival in Monaco, whichresembled a giant mushroom, was universally panned in the Press because it hidher perfect, symmetrical face and threatened to take wing across the water.
It is somehow reassuring to know that the Press has always liked to pick apartthe attire of celebrities, no matter how elevated they become.
Grace Kelly fell out of fashion favour in the 1960s, being far too prim andconventional in her role as royal wife and mother (although she later fell inlove with the brightly-coloured clothes by Emilio Pucci, and was known to wearthe odd kaftan), but she continued to look effortlessly understated in a wayour Royal Family, even Princess Diana, never quite managed.
It is a shame we never got to see her grow old. As the fashion designer KarlLagerfeld said: 'I am sure [if she were alive today], even at nearly 80, shewould be stunning.' She would indeed.
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SUCH A DIS-GRACE; Ancestral home tragic Princess wanted to rebuild is still derelict after 27yrs.(News)
Article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) Article date: January 19, 2003 More results for: grace kelly
Byline: Words: TOM GILLESPIE Pictures: KEITH HENEGHAN
A SMALL corner of rural Ireland, visited by a beautiful film Princess 40 years ago, is known by locals as "the disgrace of Grace".
A blackbird's empty nest sits in one of the chimney cubbyholes of the Mayo cottage where John Bernard Kelly, grandfather of the late Princess Grace, used to keep the family's personal letters.
The roof has long disappeared and young trees sprout from the kitchen floor.
In short, the Kelly ancestral home in Drimulra, near Newport, is a tumbledown derelict.
Despite an apparent 'green light' from Monaco for the renovation of the site, which was purchased, along with 35 acres of land in 1976 for pounds 7,800, there has been absolutely no progress.
Prince Rainier is apparently uninterested in his former wife's ancestral home despite the fact that she intended to construct a cottage there before she was killed in a road accident in 1982.
In 1978, Mayo County Council granted the Princess planning permission for a holiday home - a 2,000 square foot dormer building.
The then Mayo County Manager, Michael O'Malley, said at the time: "Permission has been granted to the Princess subject to the normal conditions which are applicable for any single dwelling built in a rural area.
"She is at liberty, now, to commence construction work at any time she wants".
Mr O'Malley added: "The development will enhance the area. It is good to see someone of the standing of the Princess who considers Mayo to be the kind of place in which she likes to live for holiday purposes".
Despite many fine words and laudable community effort over the past quarter century, absolutely nothing has happened. The cottage isn't even signposted.
Over the years, tourists, who arrive in coaches and cars to search out the roots of the film star Princess, have gone away disappointed.
Now a new initiative is under way to at least honour the Kelly connection with the Newport area.
Councillor Frank Chambers says it is time once and for all for Newport to acknowledge the Princess Grace connection and also the contribution of members of the Kelly family to the field of Olympic sport.
He says: "This could be a tourist asset not only for the west of Ireland but for the whole of Ireland.
"There is a significant interest in Princess Grace and the Rainier family. It's past time that something was put in place."
Rainier and Grace first visited the cottage in the early 1960's. A nostalgic Grace subsequently bought the cottage and land in 1976.
Since then only Grace's son, Prince Albert, has visited the cottage dropping in - unannounced - by helicopter.
Westport solicitor Patrick Durcan, who represents the Rainier family's interests in Ireland, wouldn't comment when contacted earlier this week.
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SUCH A DIS-GRACE; Ancestral home tragic Princess wanted to rebuild is still derelict after 27yrs.(News)
Article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England) Article date: January 19, 2003 More results for: grace kelly
Byline: Words: TOM GILLESPIE Pictures: KEITH HENEGHAN
A SMALL corner of rural Ireland, visited by a beautiful film Princess 40 years ago, is known by locals as "the disgrace of Grace".
A blackbird's empty nest sits in one of the chimney cubbyholes of the Mayo cottage where John Bernard Kelly, grandfather of the late Princess Grace, used to keep the family's personal letters.
The roof has long disappeared and young trees sprout from the kitchen floor.
In short, the Kelly ancestral home in Drimulra, near Newport, is a tumbledown derelict.
Despite an apparent 'green light' from Monaco for the renovation of the site, which was purchased, along with 35 acres of land in 1976 for pounds 7,800, there has been absolutely no progress.
Prince Rainier is apparently uninterested in his former wife's ancestral home despite the fact that she intended to construct a cottage there before she was killed in a road accident in 1982.
In 1978, Mayo County Council granted the Princess planning permission for a holiday home - a 2,000 square foot dormer building.
The then Mayo County Manager, Michael O'Malley, said at the time: "Permission has been granted to the Princess subject to the normal conditions which are applicable for any single dwelling built in a rural area.
"She is at liberty, now, to commence construction work at any time she wants".
Mr O'Malley added: "The development will enhance the area. It is good to see someone of the standing of the Princess who considers Mayo to be the kind of place in which she likes to live for holiday purposes".
Despite many fine words and laudable community effort over the past quarter century, absolutely nothing has happened. The cottage isn't even signposted.
Over the years, tourists, who arrive in coaches and cars to search out the roots of the film star Princess, have gone away disappointed.
Now a new initiative is under way to at least honour the Kelly connection with the Newport area.
Councillor Frank Chambers says it is time once and for all for Newport to acknowledge the Princess Grace connection and also the contribution of members of the Kelly family to the field of Olympic sport.
He says: "This could be a tourist asset not only for the west of Ireland but for the whole of Ireland.
"There is a significant interest in Princess Grace and the Rainier family. It's past time that something was put in place."
Rainier and Grace first visited the cottage in the early 1960's. A nostalgic Grace subsequently bought the cottage and land in 1976.
Since then only Grace's son, Prince Albert, has visited the cottage dropping in - unannounced - by helicopter.
Westport solicitor Patrick Durcan, who represents the Rainier family's interests in Ireland, wouldn't comment when contacted earlier this week.
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Sense of Grace Still Pervades Magic Monaco
Article from: Chicago Sun-Times Article date: August 20, 1995 Author: JACK MATHEWS More results for: grace kelly
The first thing I wanted to do when I got to Monaco was find the road above Prince Rainier's magic kingdom where Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, perhaps the most beautiful couple in movie history, had a seductive picnic in "To Catch a Thief."
"Would you like a leg or a breast?" Grace asked, playfully, as she pulled a chicken out of a basket.
"You decide," said Cary.
That scene, and a later one in Monte Carlo where Grace and Cary begin making love against a backdrop of fireworks exploding over the Mediterranean, made "To Catch a Thief" a thriller in more ways than one.
But it wasn't nostalgia that had me searching for that picnic site. It just seemed the ideal spot to begin my visit to a place that seems as much an illusion as any movie locale since the Emerald City, and that owes much of its popularity and prosperity to the offscreen romance of Grace Kelly, she of the perfect features, and Prince Rainier III, he of the royal blood.
Forty years later, the principality of Monaco is a thriving hillside metropolis, full of glorious gardens inspired by the late Princess Grace and bustling with year-round arts programs tuned to her tastes.
The skyline of Monaco also is different from what it was in "To Catch a Thief." It has been growing straight up, and massive construction cranes are pulling it ever higher.
At the far east end of the two-mile-long strip of Monaco coastline, which lies near the Italian border, are the white sandy beaches of Larvotto. On a bluff nearby is the district of Monte Carlo, with its casinos, four-star hotels and five-star restaurants. Farther southwest is the old Port of Monaco and "The Rock" in the old Monaco-Ville district, the granite promontory used as strategic defense by the Romans and the location since 1297 of the Grimaldi Palace. Finally, at the southernmost tip, there is Fontvieille, a modern urban area built on land reclaimed from the sea.
The overhead view of Monaco reminded me of the view from the Sky Ride over Disneyland. Frontierland over there (old Monaco-Ville), Tomorrowland over here (Fontvieille) and Fantasyland (Monte Carlo) glistening on the point. But this theme park is for adults only, and the prices are high. You can get sticker shock just cooling off with a scoop of Haagen-Dazs ($10).
Although my hotel was in Fontvieille, across the street from the colorful Princess Grace Rose Garden (3,500 varieties in bloom), most of the action is in old Monaco, where you can spend a day touring the spectacularly ornate palace and various museums, and the square at Monte Carlo, where you can watch a procession of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces disgorge their payloads of the rich and famous.
On the square is the renowned Hotel de Paris (doubles start at about $400 a night, breakfast is extra), the Casino de Monte-Carlo (you can bet you won't get in without a coat and tie), and the Cafe de Paris, whose combination of outdoor service, souvenir shops and Vegas-styled slots collects most of the budget-minded tourists.
Monaco also lives up to another Disneyland parallel. Crews keep the streets squeaky-clean. Crime is almost nonexistent. And nothing has been spared in accommodating visitors.
There are 10,000 public parking spaces in a country half the size of Central Park, and to help pedestrians navigate the steep grade - Monaco is perched on the southern extreme of the Maritime Alps - there is a battery of public elevators offering a lift from one street to the next.
Most of Monaco's visitors are either here for some serious spending and playing or to see what it was that caused Grace Kelly to give up Cary Grant for a short guy with a mustache.
The players are the backbone of the tourist business, and they have a closer kinship to the people living in the highest-per-capita-income country in the world. Monaco, which for anyone passing through is indistinguishable from France (the language is French, the currency is the franc), is Europe's pre-eminent tax haven. There are taxes on foreign business profits, but individuals pay nothing in income, inheritance or capital-gains tax.
So what do the legal residents and the visiting idle rich have to do with all their money? They can play all day: Tennis, golf, squash and a variety of sea sports are available. And they can certainly play all night. There are five casinos and eight nightclubs, most of which don't even open before 11 p.m.
Excess is the stuff of legend in Monaco, and my favorite tale, told to me by someone claiming to have been an eyewitness, is about a young woman who was sent by her sick boyfriend to gamble in the Loew's Casino by herself. On about the third pull of the high-stakes slot machine, she hit the jackpot, the prize for which was a bright yellow Lamborghini. The casino reportedly had two cash bids waiting for her, and she took the highest one, about $40,000 (this was 1980). Then she went back to the casino to gamble with her sudden host of friends and by dawn, when she returned to her boyfriend, had lost every cent.
If you don't have that kind of moxie or an unlimited stash of money, you can do Monaco in less than two days, avoiding the casinos and visiting the shops in the narrow medieval streets of old Monaco, walking through the lush public gardens and taking the tour of the Grimaldi Palace (a bargain at about $7). Specifically
Sense of Grace Still Pervades Magic Monaco
Article from: Chicago Sun-Times Article date: August 20, 1995 Author: JACK MATHEWS More results for: grace kelly
The first thing I wanted to do when I got to Monaco was find the road above Prince Rainier's magic kingdom where Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, perhaps the most beautiful couple in movie history, had a seductive picnic in "To Catch a Thief."
"Would you like a leg or a breast?" Grace asked, playfully, as she pulled a chicken out of a basket.
"You decide," said Cary.
That scene, and a later one in Monte Carlo where Grace and Cary begin making love against a backdrop of fireworks exploding over the Mediterranean, made "To Catch a Thief" a thriller in more ways than one.
But it wasn't nostalgia that had me searching for that picnic site. It just seemed the ideal spot to begin my visit to a place that seems as much an illusion as any movie locale since the Emerald City, and that owes much of its popularity and prosperity to the offscreen romance of Grace Kelly, she of the perfect features, and Prince Rainier III, he of the royal blood.
Forty years later, the principality of Monaco is a thriving hillside metropolis, full of glorious gardens inspired by the late Princess Grace and bustling with year-round arts programs tuned to her tastes.
The skyline of Monaco also is different from what it was in "To Catch a Thief." It has been growing straight up, and massive construction cranes are pulling it ever higher.
At the far east end of the two-mile-long strip of Monaco coastline, which lies near the Italian border, are the white sandy beaches of Larvotto. On a bluff nearby is the district of Monte Carlo, with its casinos, four-star hotels and five-star restaurants. Farther southwest is the old Port of Monaco and "The Rock" in the old Monaco-Ville district, the granite promontory used as strategic defense by the Romans and the location since 1297 of the Grimaldi Palace. Finally, at the southernmost tip, there is Fontvieille, a modern urban area built on land reclaimed from the sea.
The overhead view of Monaco reminded me of the view from the Sky Ride over Disneyland. Frontierland over there (old Monaco-Ville), Tomorrowland over here (Fontvieille) and Fantasyland (Monte Carlo) glistening on the point. But this theme park is for adults only, and the prices are high. You can get sticker shock just cooling off with a scoop of Haagen-Dazs ($10).
Although my hotel was in Fontvieille, across the street from the colorful Princess Grace Rose Garden (3,500 varieties in bloom), most of the action is in old Monaco, where you can spend a day touring the spectacularly ornate palace and various museums, and the square at Monte Carlo, where you can watch a procession of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces disgorge their payloads of the rich and famous.
On the square is the renowned Hotel de Paris (doubles start at about $400 a night, breakfast is extra), the Casino de Monte-Carlo (you can bet you won't get in without a coat and tie), and the Cafe de Paris, whose combination of outdoor service, souvenir shops and Vegas-styled slots collects most of the budget-minded tourists.
Monaco also lives up to another Disneyland parallel. Crews keep the streets squeaky-clean. Crime is almost nonexistent. And nothing has been spared in accommodating visitors.
There are 10,000 public parking spaces in a country half the size of Central Park, and to help pedestrians navigate the steep grade - Monaco is perched on the southern extreme of the Maritime Alps - there is a battery of public elevators offering a lift from one street to the next.
Most of Monaco's visitors are either here for some serious spending and playing or to see what it was that caused Grace Kelly to give up Cary Grant for a short guy with a mustache.
The players are the backbone of the tourist business, and they have a closer kinship to the people living in the highest-per-capita-income country in the world. Monaco, which for anyone passing through is indistinguishable from France (the language is French, the currency is the franc), is Europe's pre-eminent tax haven. There are taxes on foreign business profits, but individuals pay nothing in income, inheritance or capital-gains tax.
So what do the legal residents and the visiting idle rich have to do with all their money? They can play all day: Tennis, golf, squash and a variety of sea sports are available. And they can certainly play all night. There are five casinos and eight nightclubs, most of which don't even open before 11 p.m.
Excess is the stuff of legend in Monaco, and my favorite tale, told to me by someone claiming to have been an eyewitness, is about a young woman who was sent by her sick boyfriend to gamble in the Loew's Casino by herself. On about the third pull of the high-stakes slot machine, she hit the jackpot, the prize for which was a bright yellow Lamborghini. The casino reportedly had two cash bids waiting for her, and she took the highest one, about $40,000 (this was 1980). Then she went back to the casino to gamble with her sudden host of friends and by dawn, when she returned to her boyfriend, had lost every cent.
If you don't have that kind of moxie or an unlimited stash of money, you can do Monaco in less than two days, avoiding the casinos and visiting the shops in the narrow medieval streets of old Monaco, walking through the lush public gardens and taking the tour of the Grimaldi Palace (a bargain at about $7). Specifically
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Grace triumphs in her loveliest role.(News)
Article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) Article date: April 19, 2008 More results for: grace kelly
GRACE KELLY is now her Serene Highness. And she certainly earned the title. Today, in the ornate throne-room of Monaco Palace, her calm beauty remained completely unruffled throughout the ceremony of her civil marriage to Prince Rainier.
Her husband could not equal the serenity. His tenseness reminded onlookers of the strain imposed by the preparations of recent weeks, and their attendant publicity - a burden he has largely had to bear alone.
Tomorrow it will be white tie and tails at 8am-the time they are usually taken off in Monte Carlo - as guests and officials dress for the cathedral wedding, which follows today's civil ceremony.
If tomorrow's crowds give vent to the traditional excitement there is likely to be a scene rivalling anything put on by Hollywood.
The Prince has ordered taxis from all along the coast to take guests without cars to the cathedral, which faces out towards the dazzling blue sea, with the entrance, only separated from a thousand-foot drop into the Mediterranean below by a few scattered palm trees and a frighteningly slender paling.
First the Prince will drive up and be received at the entrance by the Bishop of Monaco and the Papal Nuncio in France.
After he has been escorted to the altar, his Princess will be received at the highly polished cathedral doors by the chaplain of the cathedral and the Prince's personal chaplain.
In the course of the nuptial Mass the Princess will be reminded of her unswerving duty of obedience to her husband.
She will hear the words, "Brethren, let women be subject to their husbands... for the husband is the head of the house hold... so must love their wives as their own bodies."
Grace triumphs in her loveliest role.(News)
Article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) Article date: April 19, 2008 More results for: grace kelly
GRACE KELLY is now her Serene Highness. And she certainly earned the title. Today, in the ornate throne-room of Monaco Palace, her calm beauty remained completely unruffled throughout the ceremony of her civil marriage to Prince Rainier.
Her husband could not equal the serenity. His tenseness reminded onlookers of the strain imposed by the preparations of recent weeks, and their attendant publicity - a burden he has largely had to bear alone.
Tomorrow it will be white tie and tails at 8am-the time they are usually taken off in Monte Carlo - as guests and officials dress for the cathedral wedding, which follows today's civil ceremony.
If tomorrow's crowds give vent to the traditional excitement there is likely to be a scene rivalling anything put on by Hollywood.
The Prince has ordered taxis from all along the coast to take guests without cars to the cathedral, which faces out towards the dazzling blue sea, with the entrance, only separated from a thousand-foot drop into the Mediterranean below by a few scattered palm trees and a frighteningly slender paling.
First the Prince will drive up and be received at the entrance by the Bishop of Monaco and the Papal Nuncio in France.
After he has been escorted to the altar, his Princess will be received at the highly polished cathedral doors by the chaplain of the cathedral and the Prince's personal chaplain.
In the course of the nuptial Mass the Princess will be reminded of her unswerving duty of obedience to her husband.
She will hear the words, "Brethren, let women be subject to their husbands... for the husband is the head of the house hold... so must love their wives as their own bodies."
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