Princess Grace

Grace Kelly's career was the ultimate fulfilment of the American dream. The granddaughter of an immigrant farm boy from County Mayo, she became a top Hollywood star than then the wife of a ruling European Prince. Idolized by Hitchcock, courted by Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, and William Holden among others, she abandoned her glittering career at the age of 26 for marriage to Prince Ranier of Monaco. Yet she remained a star, her golden image adorning the covers of magazines and the front pages of newspapers until her untimely death in 1982. Despite her extremely public life as actress and princess, wife and mother, she remained an unusually private person. Sarah Bradford has interviewed her family and friends, the people who worked with her from Hollywood to Monaco, to compile this first full-length insight into Princess Grace...