Grace Kelly. A Life in Her Own Words

On September 3, 1982, the car of the Princess of Monaco didn’t make the sharp turn on a mountain road and fell into a ravine from a height of 40 meters. Her daughter, Princess Stéphanie, survived with bruises, while GRACE KELLY died the next day, not regaining consciousness… Hollywood’s first beauty, an “Oscar” winner, Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite actress—she played her main and most difficult role not on screen but in real life: becoming Princess of Monaco, wife of Prince Rainier III, and mother of three children— to whom this book is dedicated. How does an unloved child become a Hollywood star? For what did Hitchcock call her VULCAN UNDER SNOW—and what storms of passion raged beneath the mask of her icy composure? Why did Grace and her husband not love to remember their wedding and never look at wedding photos? What did it cost her to give up a film career, and how, as a “crowned housewife,” could she at 50 remain an icon of style? Is it true that “the rich also cry,” and what is it like to “live in an aquarium,” in full view of the whole world—following thousands of etiquette rules and having no way to escape the “golden cage”? Answering the most intimate questions that women carry in their hearts, this confession lets you look into the soul of the most beautiful princess of the twentieth century.