Royalty - Princess Grace of Monaco / Grace Kelly - limited edition postcard

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• Picture / Image:  'Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco' picture and information about the princess [Grace Kelly]
• Publisher:  Carousel - Copy no 330 of 1500
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Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American film actress who, after marrying Prince Rainier III, became known as the Princess of Monaco.

After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions and more than 40 episodes of live drama productions broadcast during the early 1950s Golden Age of Television. In October 1953, Kelly gained stardom from her performance in the film Mogambo. This film won her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination in 1954. She had leading roles in five films, including The Country Girl, for which her deglamorized performance earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.^[2] Other films include High Noon (1952) with Gary Cooper, Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) with Ray Milland, Rear Window (1954) with James Stewart and To Catch a Thief (1955) with Cary Grant, and High Society (1956) with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby.

She retired from acting at the age of 26 to marry Prince Rainier and begin her duties in Monaco. She and Prince Rainier had three children: Caroline, Albert, and Stéphanie. She retained her American roots, maintaining dual U.S. and Monégasque citizenship.^[3]

Grace Kelly died on September 14, 1982, a day after a stroke caused her to lose control of her car and have an accident

Grace Kelly was born November 12, 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She came from an affluent family, of half Irish and half German descent.^[4] Her father, John B. Kelly, Sr., won three Olympic gold medals for sculler. He later founded a brickwork contracting company that became well known on the East Coast. He registered as a Democrat, and was then nominated to be mayor for the 1935 election, but lost by the closest margin in the city's history. In later years, he served on the Fairmount Park Commission and, during World War II, was appointed by President Roosevelt as National Director of Physical Fitness. Grace's mother, Margaret Majer, taught physical education at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the first female to coach women's athletics teams at the institution. She was also a beauty queen and model. In her later years, she suffered from a stroke and was admitted to a convalescent home where she eventually died of pneumonia at the age of 91.^[5]

Grace had two older siblings, Margaret (June 13, 1925 – November 23, 1991) and John B. Kelly, Jr. (May 24, 1927), and a younger sister named Elizabeth (June 25, 1933 – November 24, 2009). They were raised to be Catholic.^[6][7]

Margaret, more commonly known as Peggy, lived to be 65. At Margaret's baptism in 1925, Jack Kelly's mother, Mary Costello Kelly, expressed her disappointment that the baby was not named Grace in memory of her last daughter, who had died young. Upon his mother's death the following year, Jack Kelly resolved that his next daughter would bear the name and, three years later, with the arrival of Grace Patricia in November 1929, his late mother's wish was honored.^{[citation needed]}

John Jr. won in 1947 the James E. Sullivan Award as the country's top amateur athlete for rowing. He followed in his father's footsteps and competed at the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics. During the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he won a bronze medal, which he gave to Grace as a late wedding gift. In addition to John's rowing career, he also served as a city councilman. Philadelphia's Kelly Drive is named in his honour.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts. Her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly (1873–1939), was a vaudeville star. His nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature. Another uncle, George Kelly (1887–1974), was estranged from the family due to his homosexuality. He became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director, with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off, in 1924–25, and he was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.^[8]

While attending Ravenhill Academy, a prestigious Catholic girls' school, Kelly modeled fashions at local social events with her mother and sisters. In 1942, at the age of twelve, she played the lead in Don't Feed the Animals, a play produced by the East Falls Old Academy Players.^[8] Before graduating in May 1947 from Stevens School, a socially prominent private institution on Walnut Lane in the Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of Germantown, she acted and danced. Her graduation yearbook listed her favorite actress as Ingrid Bergman and her favorite actor as Joseph Cotten.^[9] Written in the ""Stevens' Prophecy"" section was: ""Miss Grace P. Kelly – a famous star of stage and screen."" Owing to her low mathematics scores, Kelly was rejected by Bennington College in July 1947.^[10]

Rainier met Kelly and her family, and after three days, the prince proposed. Kelly accepted and the families began preparing for what the press called ""The Wedding of the Century."" Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier with a dowry of $2 million.^[24]

The religious wedding was set for April 19, 1956. News of the engagement was a sensation, even though it meant a possible end to Kelly's film career. Alfred Hitchcock quipped that he was ""very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part.""

Preparations for the wedding were elaborate. The Palace of Monaco was painted and redecorated throughout. On April 4, 1956, leaving from Pier 84 in New York Harbor, Kelly, with her family, bridesmaids, poodle, and over eighty pieces of luggage, boarded the ocean liner SS Constitution for the French Riviera. Some 400 reporters applied to sail, although most were turned away. Thousands of fans sent the party off for the eight-day voyage, and in Monaco, more than 20,000 people lined the streets to greet the future princess consort.

To fulfill the requirements of the Napoleonic Code of Monaco and the laws of the Roman Catholic Church, Kelly and Rainier had both civil and religious weddings.^[25] The 16-minute civil ceremony took place in the Palace Throne Room of Monaco on April 18, 1956,^[25] and a reception later in the day was attended by 3,000 Monaco citizens.^[26][27] To cap the ceremony, the 142 official titles that Kelly acquired in the union (counterparts of Rainier's) were formally recited. The following day the church ceremony took place at Monaco's Saint Nicholas Cathedral, before Monaco's Bishop Gilles Barthe.^[25] The wedding was estimated to have been watched by over 30 million viewers on live television, and was described by biographer Robert Lacy as ""the first modern event to generate media overkill.""^[27] Kelly's wedding dress, designed by MGM's Academy Award–winning Helen Rose,^[27] was worked on for six weeks by three dozen seamstresses. The bridesmaid's gowns were designed by Joe Allen Hong at Neiman Marcus.^[28] The 700 guests included several famous people, including Aristotle Onassis; Cary Grant; David Niven and his wife Hjördis; Gloria Swanson; Ava Gardner; the crowned head Aga Khan III; Gloria Guinness;^[29] Enid, Lady Kenmare; Daisy Fellowes; Etti Plesch; Lady Diana Cooper; Louise de Vilmorin; Loelia Lindsay; and Conrad Hilton.^{[citation needed]} Frank Sinatra initially accepted an invitation, but did not attend.^[30][31] The prince and princess left that night for their seven-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise on Rainier's yacht, Deo Juvante II.^[27][32]

The couple had three children:

• Princess Caroline, born January 23, 1957, nine months and four days after the wedding of her parents.
• Prince Albert, born March 14, 1958, current ruler of the Principality of Monaco
• Princess Stéphanie, born February 1, 1965.

During her marriage she was unable to continue her acting career. Instead, she performed her daily duties as princess and got involved in philanthropic work.^[33]

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