Royal Readings – Unforgettable Grace of Monaco from the pen of Jean des Cars
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As this summer of 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of Grace Kelly’s disappearance, the Rocher editions are republishing her biography by Jean des Cars.
Sad date that this September 14, 2022 for the Principality of Monaco. It will be exactly 40 years since Princess Grace disappeared. Victim the day before of a car accident on the road to La Turbie while she was driving, their youngest daughter by her side, the wife of Prince Rainier III died on September 14, 1982 at the Princess Hospital Center -Thanks to only 52 years.
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Even if we think we know everything about Grace Kelly, from her childhood in Philadelphia, her life as a Hollywood star, the face of Hitchcock, her grand marriage to the Monegasque sovereign in 1956, to whom she gave three children – Princess Caroline in 1957, Prince Albert in 1958 and Princess Stéphanie in 1965, from his years on the Rock, nothing prevents him from immersing himself in the book “Unforgettable Grace of Monaco” by Jean des Cars.
A biography studded with personal memories of the author
Especially since this one – the first edition of which was released in 1999, the year she would have been 70 – has just been republished by Éditions du Rocher (On sale from August 24, 2022 at a price of 18 euros ). A biography in which the author, journalist and historian of the great European dynasties, has chosen not to follow the chronology and to slip into his story personal memories of his meetings with the former actress who became First Lady of the Rock.
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