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00:34To real life, Princess, Grace was living the dream.
00:41But with rumours of a crumbling marriage, amidst numerous affairs, and out-of-control children,
00:49the fairy tale was not what it seemed.
00:54And there would be no happily ever after.
00:58It was a sort of slight stroke. She wouldn't have died if it hadn't been for the crash.
01:37Grace Patricia Kelly was born on November the 12th, 1929.
01:42The third born of the four Kelly children.
01:45Grace was a quiet, shy, and sickly child.
01:50Plain, understated, and sensitive.
01:52The family regarded her as the least ambitious of the clan.
01:58Raised as strict Catholics in a wealthy area of Philadelphia,
02:02Grace and her brother and sisters enjoyed the privilege of the mansion built by their father's brickwork firm.
02:12A tall, striking Irish-American, whose parents had emigrated from County Mayo in the 1860s.
02:19Grace's father was go-getting.
02:21Jack Kelly was an all-American hero.
02:24Great, great man with the ladies.
02:26From the wrong side of the tracks, he was both handsome and talented,
02:29but treated as an outsider, and was always fighting against that.
02:38In 1920, he had been refused entry by the committee at the world's most illustrious sculling event,
02:44at Henley Royal Regatta, on account that he worked with his hands.
02:51Driven by the snub, Jack entered the Olympic Games in Antwerp,
02:55winning gold medals in both single and double sculls,
02:59a feat unmatched to this day by any oarsman.
03:06Jack would go on to win another gold in Paris in 1924.
03:15He approached his business career with the same tenacity.
03:20Fixated on making his fortune, Jack built his own brickworks empire,
03:26making his first million at just 34.
03:32Renowned for his shameless self-promotion and political aspirations,
03:36he counted fellow Irish American Democrat Joe Kennedy amongst his close friends.
03:44A habitual achiever, Kelly expected the same from his family.
03:53But while John Jr. spent his childhood learning to live up to his father's rowing achievements,
03:59Grace was happy to blend into the background.
04:04Her uncompetitive nature would leave her at the back of the queue when it came to her father's affection.
04:13He always sort of put Grace down.
04:16I don't know why.
04:17His real favourite was her elder sister, Peggy.
04:20He adored Peggy.
04:22He thought, you know, Peggy was athletic.
04:23Peggy was wonderful, Peggy this, that and the other.
04:26And Grace was a sort of ignored middle child.
04:32Instead, Grace swayed towards her mother.
04:37Born Margaret Meyer, Grace's mother was a second-generation German
04:42whose father was born in Castle Helmsdorf on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany.
04:48Before her marriage, Margaret had been the first female coach of women at the University of Pennsylvania.
04:57Margaret was pretty, athletic and instilled with the same work ethic as her husband.
05:04She was a beauty queen.
05:06She was a great swimmer.
05:08She was, I think, again, quite tough.
05:11And quite tough on the children and they had to sort of well behave.
05:18Margaret taught her daughter to cook and sew.
05:22Grace also inherited her mother's poise and dignified air.
05:26Something Margaret had mastered in the face of Jack's numerous extramarital affairs.
05:41In the summer of 1947, Grace and her family travelled en masse to England
05:47to support John Jr.'s attempt at the Henley title that had eluded his father.
05:54The Diamond Scarls beat two with J.B. Kelly of the USA.
05:58Grace was there to witness her brother's famous victory,
06:01but she was already plotting her own path to success.
06:07She had decided to become an actress.
06:13Showing early signs of talent, her high school yearbook had predicted she'd become a famous star of stage and screen.
06:22On the family's return from England,
06:24Grace won a place at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
06:31She took up residence at the Barberson Hotel for women,
06:35an establishment opened in 1927 for unmarried daughters of the gentry.
06:41Men were barred beyond the ground-floor lobby after 10pm.
06:53Making the most of her blossoming looks,
06:55she found the perfect way to support her studies.
06:59She decided she needed pocket money, she needed to work,
07:02and so she went out and did really quite menial modelling jobs.
07:06She didn't mind dressing up as an usherette in a cinema.
07:09She wasn't a high fashion model.
07:13She also enjoyed the growing attentions of men,
07:17one of whom was the notorious playboy and estranged husband of Rita Hayworth,
07:21Prince Ali Khan.
07:24She even received a marriage proposal from the Shah of Iran.
07:33But it was in 1952 that Grace got her big career break,
07:38opposite Gary Cooper in High Moon.
07:42I mean, if you won't go with me now,
07:44I'll be on that train when it leaves you.
07:46I've got to stay.
07:48It was a wonderful classic Western,
07:50a real stroke of luck for her in many ways to get this.
07:53She didn't really have much to do in the movie,
07:56but she's typecast perfectly.
08:00Sort of, you know, background heroine.
08:03And of course she was playing with this tall, handsome marshal,
08:07who really is sort of twice her age.
08:11During the four-week shoot,
08:1222-year-old Grace had an affair with 51-year-old Cooper.
08:21Again, falling for the charms of an older man,
08:24Grace was also linked to the film's director, Fred Zinneman,
08:28who was 45 and married.
08:32I think to suggest that she was looking for a father figure,
08:36I think it's probably right.
08:39From her father, she got standards,
08:41she got boundaries, she got expectations,
08:43she got rules and regulations she had to live up to,
08:46and suddenly there's a handsome older man
08:48who just wants to cuddle her.
08:50There was a pattern emerging.
08:55When Grace made Mogambo in 1952,
08:58the cast and crew were stranded together on location in Africa.
09:03Grace would win a Golden Globe for her performance.
09:07But she also won the attentions of her co-star.
09:12Grace apparently said to one of her friends in later life,
09:15what do you do when you're on your own in a tent in Africa with Clark Gable?
09:19They made no attempt whatsoever to hide their relationship.
09:24He realised it wasn't going to last forever.
09:28Gable, notorious for loving and leaving his women,
09:31quickly ended the affair.
09:41In 1954, it was a professional relationship with Alfred Hitchcock
09:46that took her career to a new level.
09:52What could you tell them?
09:53I should simply tell them that you're trying to blackmail me
09:56into murdering your wife.
10:00The first of a trilogy of films Grace would make for the director,
10:04Dahl M for Murder,
10:05sealed her position as his favourite actress.
10:08I think Hitchcock was rather in love with her.
10:12Grace Kelly, the ice princess,
10:16she projected that cool blonde image
10:19which he saw in her and he made famous.
10:25Grace Kelly was the definitive Hitchcock blonde,
10:28the image of virginal beauty yet brimming with sexuality.
10:36There were qualities not lost on her Dahl M for Murder co-star,
10:4049-year-old Ray Milland.
10:45Once again, Grace became embroiled in a love affair
10:48that this time she'd come to regret.
10:57Ray Milland was very much married and his wife was quite tough
11:03and she was not prepared to have Grace messing about with her husband.
11:11It began to get out about Ray Milland and Grace
11:14and Grace panicked, she ran away
11:17because she couldn't have scandals surrounding her.
11:22You know, Grace Kelly affair with married man, no, no.
11:28Grace was forced to make a public apology
11:30in order to rescue her reputation
11:33and save her career.
11:46The film Real Window gave Grace a chance
11:49to grab attention for all the right reasons.
11:51This is the apartment of a man named Jeffrey.
11:53She gave yet another sizzling performance
11:55for Hitchcock opposite James Stewart.
12:00But it was with The Country Girl
12:02that Grace would make her biggest impact.
12:05The unglamorous part of Georgie Elgin
12:08was unlike anything Grace had done on screen before.
12:13Grace had demanded that the studio she was contracted to, MGM,
12:18release her to Paramount so she could accept the role.
12:23She really was ambitious as an actress.
12:25She wanted to be the top.
12:27She wanted to be good.
12:28She worked so hard.
12:30She was determined to make as much success as she could
12:34on the acting front, not the glamour front, the acting front.
12:42Her portrayal of a woman torn between her loyalty
12:45to an alcoholic husband, played by Bing Crosby,
12:48and his employer, William Holden, was captivating.
12:51And no doubt helped by her off-screen affairs with both men.
12:58The Milland affair hadn't changed her behaviour with co-stars.
13:05The problem for Grace's fascination with older men
13:09was that quite a few of them were married.
13:12But really, it is purient on our part
13:14to see her film career just in terms of film bed, film bed.
13:18I mean, actually, one's looking at the nurturing
13:20and developing of an extraordinary talent.
13:23And the fact that there are love affairs along the way,
13:25I think, can be seen as contributing to her maturity.
13:29Grace Kelly for The Country Girl.
13:32Whatever risks Grace was taking in her love life,
13:35her career gamble had paid off.
13:38Her transformation from screen siren to serious actress
13:42won her the Academy Award.
13:43The thrill of this moment keeps me from saying what I really feel.
13:49I can only say thank you with all my heart
13:52to all who made this possible for me.
13:56Thank you.
14:01Praise from her father was less easy to come by.
14:05Jack Kelly told reporters he was surprised by Grace's Oscar,
14:09pointing out it was always Peggy, his eldest, who did things best.
14:15With Grace's movie career at its peak,
14:18her love life was as busy as ever.
14:22She was linked to a string of other movie stars.
14:28But it was Russian fashion designer Ole Cassini
14:31with whom Grace had the most serious relationship.
14:35But her plans to marry the twice-to-4C
14:38came to an abrupt end when Jack Kelly disapproved.
14:49Then in spring 1955,
14:52Grace was invited to France for the Cannes Film Festival.
15:03She was asked by a French magazine
15:06to take part in a photo shoot down the coast in Monaco.
15:12It would change her life forever.
15:18In 1955, Prince Rainier of Monaco
15:22was one of the world's most eligible bachelors.
15:27That spring, he was about to turn 32.
15:40Monaco's Grimaldi family had ruled for almost 700 years
15:44when, in 1949,
15:47Prince Rainier III acceded to the throne.
15:51Famous for being one of the most glamorous places in the world,
15:56the Casino of Monte Carlo had thrived in the 20s and 30s,
16:00attracting the cream of society.
16:02Hey, hey, hey, hey.
16:04What are you doing?
16:05Why money?
16:06It enriched the royal family and the economy.
16:13But with the rise of towns like Cannes and Nice,
16:16visitors no longer flocked to the one-square-mile country
16:19on the shores of the Mediterranean.
16:26Within five years of Rainier's enthronement,
16:30one of Monte Carlo's biggest banks collapsed.
16:33It left the country's economy and the Grimaldi fortune in tatters.
16:41Monaco was on the brink of going bust.
16:45Rainier had to restore Monaco to its former glory.
16:49Marriage to an American movie star would attract big publicity
16:53and help to bring the wealth and literati back to the principality.
17:00And there was an even greater urgency for Rainier to marry.
17:04If he failed to provide an heir,
17:07Monaco would automatically revert to France
17:09and cease to exist.
17:15Grace became the number one candidate
17:17when invited by Paris Match
17:19to the Palace of Monaco in May, 1955.
17:24Little did she know the photo call
17:26had been so strategically engineered.
17:30I think that Grace was pretty fed up
17:33because he was late.
17:35You know, what's this prince think he's doing?
17:39Who does he think he is?
17:40This kind of thing.
17:42But then, when they actually did meet,
17:45I think they both charmed each other.
17:52When Grace returned to Hollywood,
17:54she starred in her third film for Hitchcock,
17:56To Catch a Thief,
17:57before production began on her next movie,
18:00The Swan.
18:01As fate would have it,
18:03she played a princess,
18:04vying for the attentions of Crown Prince Albert,
18:07played by Alec Guinness.
18:10Critics were impressed by her regal performance.
18:13Time magazine noted,
18:15Grace in lace
18:16is every slender, statuesque inch
18:18a princess.
18:21Throughout filming,
18:23Grace had been in correspondence with Rainier.
18:25Well, Prince,
18:26you're considered
18:27one of the most eligible bachelors in the world.
18:29Yeah, I can.
18:30And I know you've been expecting this question.
18:32There have been a lot of rumours
18:34linking you with virtually everybody,
18:36and the latest one is with Grace Kelly.
18:38Would you comment on that for us?
18:40No, I just met Grace Kelly.
18:41She came to the Palace
18:42when she was at Cannes for the festival,
18:44and that's all.
18:46Well, there are many stories
18:47that you're actively seeking a wife
18:49would you care to comment on that?
18:50No, I'm not.
18:51That's you can misquote.
18:52I see.
18:53In December 1955,
18:55Rainier visited America
18:56for the first time.
18:58What if you did meet a girl
18:59that you liked here?
18:59Would all this publicity about it
19:01prevent you from doing anything about it?
19:03No, it shouldn't.
19:04I don't think anything should.
19:06Despite his claims to the contrary,
19:08his intention was to propose.
19:10If you were to marry,
19:12what kind of a girl do you have in mind?
19:15I don't know.
19:16The best.
19:17Grace wouldn't have to wait long.
19:29When reporters followed Grace and Rainier
19:32around her Philadelphia neighbourhood,
19:33it did wonders for Jack's social standing.
19:41For Rainier,
19:42Grace was the perfect candidate.
19:45Glamorous, beautiful,
19:46famous,
19:47and conveniently Roman Catholic.
19:53On January 5th, 1956,
19:57Jack and Margaret Kelly
19:58proudly announced
20:00the engagement of their daughter,
20:02Grace,
20:02to His Serene Highness,
20:05Prince Rainier of Monaco.
20:10Miss Kelly?
20:11Is it a surprise to you, Miss Kelly?
20:13Yes.
20:14Miss Kelly,
20:15are you going to live in Monaco?
20:17Yes.
20:19In reality,
20:20Grace barely knew Rainier,
20:22but swept up in the moment,
20:24she had told friends
20:25that she felt like Cinderella.
20:28She told me several days ago
20:30that she thought the prince
20:31was very charming.
20:32And when Grace admits that,
20:34I thought it was rather serious.
20:37That makes him the prince charming,
20:39though.
20:40Less romantic
20:41was the fertility test
20:42Grace had to undergo.
20:44Luckily for her,
20:45she was past fit
20:46for producing Monaco's heir.
20:51from that moment on,
20:52Grace and Rainier
20:53were big news.
20:55America had a princess in waiting.
20:59Is Miss Kelly
21:00going to make
21:01any more movies
21:02as far as you know?
21:03I don't think so.
21:04She won't make any
21:05in Monaco?
21:07I don't know.
21:08Or in France?
21:09No.
21:10Life with Rainier
21:11meant an end
21:12to Grace's movie career.
21:14I think the fact
21:15that it represented
21:16a wonderful way
21:18of leaping clear
21:19from Hollywood.
21:20Total escape.
21:21When one talks to actresses,
21:23they all have this dilemma.
21:25When have they reached
21:26the top of the hill?
21:27They don't,
21:28if they're thinking people,
21:29they don't want
21:30to go down the other side.
21:32They want to stop
21:33at the very top.
21:37After completing
21:38one final film,
21:39High Society,
21:41on April the 4th,
21:43a bewildered-looking Grace
21:44prepared to leave America.
21:46for her wedding.
21:50There must have been
21:52moments of slight panic,
21:53I would have thought.
21:54And maybe it crossed her mind
21:56that she was going to
21:57what was really
21:58a foreign country.
21:59And how was she going
22:00to get on with that?
22:01How was she going to cope
22:03in a castle
22:04with a court?
22:06With all her friends
22:07back in Philadelphia,
22:08a long way away.
22:09Do you have any
22:11special thoughts
22:12about leaving the state,
22:14about leaving your country
22:16and going on
22:17to this new life for you?
22:20Well, Jinx,
22:21as I said before,
22:22just getting married
22:23is a very big step
22:24for any girl.
22:26Grace,
22:26together with 78 friends
22:28and relatives,
22:29prepared to board
22:30the USS Constitution.
22:35Jack Kelly
22:36had paid for the entire party
22:38to travel first class.
22:40Few knew
22:40he'd also paid a dowry
22:42of $2 million
22:43for the privilege of Grace
22:44and her family
22:46joining European royalty.
23:00Throughout the voyage,
23:01whether playing deck games
23:02with her two nieces
23:03or enjoying the company
23:04of her pets,
23:05Grace has seldom
23:05escaped the headlines,
23:06the price of being
23:07the Hollywood star
23:08who won the heart
23:09of the eligible
23:09Prince Rainier.
23:11Over eight days,
23:13Grace posed
23:14for the photographers
23:14and granted every journalist
23:16on board an interview.
23:17A happy moment,
23:18a cable from her future husband
23:20as the liner arrives
23:21off the coast of Monaco.
23:24At 10.30,
23:25on the morning
23:26of the 12th of April,
23:27after more than a week at sea,
23:30Grace finally reached
23:31her destination.
23:32...Giovante II
23:32to greet his lovely young bride...
23:34In true fairy tale style,
23:37Prince Rainier,
23:38aboard his own launch,
23:40came out to meet
23:41the USS Constitution.
23:43Prince Rainier of Monaco
23:44had been joined
23:45by his lovely bride
23:46and together they sailed
23:47into the harbour
23:48to receive the ready acclaim
23:49of the happy people.
24:07It was one of the most romantic arrivals
24:10the world had ever witnessed.
24:12Any doubts Grace had
24:14about the huge step
24:15she was taking
24:16were cast aside.
24:18And with all Monaco
24:19ready to take her to its heart,
24:21Grace Kelly leaves the yacht.
24:23Already,
24:23with the assured poise
24:24of a princess,
24:25she graciously accepts
24:26a bouquet
24:26from a tiny Monagasc
24:27dressed in national costume.
24:31I think that they were
24:32very much in love
24:33with each other.
24:34Maybe they were also in love
24:35with the idea of each other.
24:38But they were.
24:39They really were.
24:48On the wedding day...
24:49The wedding itself
24:50was an MGM-produced spectacular.
24:53The bride walked up the aisle
24:55on the arm of her father,
24:56Mr John Kelly.
24:57Still under contract,
24:58the studio stage management
25:00and coverage of the event
25:02for the documentary
25:03The Wedding of the Century
25:04completed Grace's movie
25:06obligation to them.
25:08Like a modern day magazine deal,
25:10the couple received
25:1250% of the profits
25:13after deduction
25:15of the 30% distribution costs.
25:17Punctually on time,
25:19Prince Rainier III arrived.
25:23He was wearing a new uniform
25:25which he himself had designed
25:26with a sword
25:27and the sash
25:27of the order of St Charles.
25:29Grace's wedding gown
25:30was designed
25:31and provided for her
25:32by MGM,
25:33as was a Hollywood hairdresser
25:35and publicity executive.
25:37Thank you, Patricia,
25:38here present,
25:40according to the rite
25:41of our mother,
25:42the Saint Eglise.
25:44Hollywood
25:45and 30 million people
25:47around the globe
25:48watched as Prince Rainier
25:49of Monaco
25:50married Grace Kelly
25:51of Philadelphia.
26:15Grace and Rainier
26:17walked out into the sunshine
26:19to thousands of cheering
26:20monogasks.
26:23From that day on,
26:25Grace the princess
26:26would be scrutinised
26:28more than she ever had been
26:30as an actress.
26:39The couple boarded Rainier's yacht
26:42for a month's honeymoon
26:43in the Spanish islands.
26:46But things quickly went wrong.
26:53Grace spent much of the time
26:55ill with a cold
26:56and suffering seasickness.
27:00And it wouldn't take long
27:02for Grace to realise
27:03her and her husband's interests
27:05were quite different.
27:13On their return to the palace,
27:15things only got worse.
27:18When she came to live
27:19day by day with Rainier,
27:21she discovered
27:22he was a creature of habit,
27:24a formality.
27:25He could be very glum
27:26and morose,
27:27controlling, dictatorial.
27:30There was an old,
27:31established serving staff there
27:33who were rather snooty
27:35about this young,
27:37blonde mistress
27:38who'd come along.
27:40And she was trapped.
27:42The people of Monaco
27:44and even Rainier's own mother
27:46regarded the new princess
27:48with scepticism.
27:50I would have thought
27:50that Rainier's family
27:51might have been
27:52a little bit suspicious
27:54of Grace.
27:57American film star.
28:00Not like us, dear.
28:06Just when Grace felt
28:08at her lowest,
28:09she found out
28:09she was pregnant.
28:11The news lifted her spirits.
28:14The couple celebrated
28:15with a visit to Paris
28:17that summer
28:17to buy baby clothes.
28:22Rainier also bought
28:23his wife
28:24a large crocodile-skin
28:26leather Hermes bag,
28:27which she used
28:28to hide her bump.
28:29The Kelly Hermes bag,
28:31as it became known,
28:33cemented her place
28:34in fashion history
28:35for decades to come.
28:42To curb Grace's homesickness,
28:44the couple also travelled
28:46back to Philadelphia.
28:47They were mobbed
28:49wherever they went.
28:53I'm delighted to be back
28:55and naturally
28:56we've been very busy.
28:59arranging our new life
29:01and getting settled.
29:02Your Highness,
29:03as a prospective father,
29:05have you taken any courses
29:07on how to change
29:07a diaper, perhaps?
29:08No, not yet.
29:09Do you expect to?
29:10I think so, yes.
29:13The pair made
29:14a special appearance
29:15at the Atlantic City
29:16racetrack
29:17that keen gambler
29:19Jack Kelly
29:19had co-founded in 1946.
29:25Grace and Rainier
29:27looked every inch
29:28the happy
29:28and expectant couple.
29:37For Monarch's milling crowds,
29:39the suspense was over.
29:40At last,
29:40they saw the signal
29:41announcing the wonderful tidings
29:42of the first royal birth
29:43in the palace
29:44for 30 years.
29:45On January 23rd, 1957,
29:49Grace gave birth
29:50to Caroline Louise Marguerite
29:52in the palace library.
29:54Monaco went wild
29:55for the news.
29:56From every building,
29:57national emblems
29:58of red and white
29:59brought extra splashes
29:59of colour
30:00to add their own
30:01sparkling story
30:02to a day of rejoicing.
30:06The Grimaldi dynasty
30:07and the principality
30:09was secured.
30:13Grace had won
30:14over her doubters.
30:20With the birth of Caroline,
30:22the movie queen
30:23was finally accepted
30:25as the princess of Monaco.
30:34A little more
30:35than a year later
30:36came the arrival
30:38of Albert Alexander
30:39Louis-Pierre.
30:46By producing an heir
30:47and the spare,
30:49Grace had fulfilled
30:50her royal duty.
30:55Over the coming years,
30:56she seemed content
30:57to raise her children.
30:59The couple settled
31:00into family life
31:01and official life.
31:04But the happiness
31:05wouldn't last.
31:13In June 1960,
31:16Jack Kelly died.
31:18It was the first
31:19in a series
31:20of personal disasters
31:21for Grace.
31:25Devastated by his loss,
31:27Grace flew back to America
31:29to attend his funeral.
31:31But she was given
31:33a little time
31:33and little time
31:33to mourn him.
31:35Her position dictated
31:37that she resume
31:38her duties
31:39immediately.
31:48As one of the most
31:50famous women
31:50in the world,
31:51the cult of Grace Kelly
31:53drew people to Monaco.
31:55It led to a thriving economy
31:57and Grace was vital
31:58to the principality's
32:00ongoing success.
32:01But this brought pressure.
32:04The gulf between
32:05the public image
32:06she portrayed
32:07and her own feelings
32:08was growing.
32:13When she and Rainier
32:15went to visit
32:15her grandfather's
32:16ancestral home
32:17in County Mayo
32:18in 1961,
32:20they were again
32:21mobbed by people
32:22eager to see
32:22the famous couple.
32:27It was reported
32:28Grace was becoming
32:29increasingly uncomfortable
32:31in crowds
32:31and would make herself
32:33ill with worry
32:34before banquets
32:35and engagements.
32:40Then in 1962,
32:42an old Hollywood friend
32:43seemed to come
32:44to her rescue.
32:46How do you do?
32:47I am Alfred Hitchcock
32:49and I would like
32:50to tell you
32:51about my latest
32:52motion picture,
32:53Marnie.
32:53The acting was
32:54in her blood
32:55and I think
32:55she missed it
32:56terribly.
32:58And I think
32:58when the Hitchcock
32:59opportunity of Marnie
33:00came along,
33:01she really, really
33:02wanted to do it.
33:03She'd enjoyed
33:04talking to Hitchcock
33:05working out
33:06with Marnie
33:07the fact they'd
33:08go on a holiday
33:08in America.
33:09It wouldn't disrupt
33:10the family life
33:10for her to go off
33:11and shoot a bit
33:12every day.
33:12It all seems
33:13such a perfect
33:14comeback.
33:15A domestic bombshell
33:16which gave fuel
33:17to the Monagasc
33:18rumour factory
33:18was the announcement
33:19that Princess Grace
33:20was to become
33:21a film actress
33:22once again
33:22for Alfred Hitchcock.
33:24But public
33:25confirmation
33:26of Grace's plans
33:27to star in Hitchcock's
33:28risque thriller
33:30scandalised
33:30the principality.
33:33The people of
33:33Monaco say,
33:34we don't want
33:35that princess
33:35kissing another man.
33:37The whole thing
33:39got out of hand
33:39and Grace
33:40had to back down.
33:43I think this was
33:44a clap of doom
33:45feeling
33:46for her
33:47at that moment
33:48that the door
33:49really was
33:50slammed shut.
33:55To add to her misery,
33:57soon after
33:58the disappointment
33:58of Marnie,
33:59Grace miscarried
34:00her third child.
34:05The couple's
34:06last child,
34:07Stephanie Marie
34:08Elizabeth,
34:09was born two years
34:10later at the beginning
34:11of 1965.
34:18But as the children
34:20grew up,
34:21the royal couple
34:22grew apart.
34:23With Monaco
34:24rejuvenated,
34:26Rainier
34:26had more time
34:27on his hands.
34:31Rumours of Rainier's
34:33affairs
34:33have been widespread
34:35for some years
34:36and they may have
34:37begun as early
34:38as three months
34:38into the marriage.
34:40I would have thought
34:42that there were affairs,
34:43yes.
34:44I mean,
34:44that's the sort
34:45of tradition,
34:47I think,
34:48for princes
34:48to get up
34:49to that kind
34:50of thing.
34:52Grace had confided
34:53in her oldest
34:54friends about
34:55feeling humiliated
34:56and alone.
34:57She watched
34:58her mother,
34:59Margaret,
34:59suffer the pain
35:00of Jack's
35:00infidelities
35:01and this time
35:02it was happening
35:03to her.
35:05Prince Rainier
35:06III of Monaco
35:07arrives in New York
35:08with his daughter
35:08Caroline for a six-week
35:10visit in the United States.
35:11His princess,
35:12the former Grace Kelly,
35:13is arriving
35:14on a later flight
35:14with the heir
35:15to the throne,
35:16their son.
35:18To escape
35:19her unhappiness,
35:20over the next decade,
35:22Grace immersed herself
35:23in charity work
35:24and her hobbies.
35:26I think she made
35:28a huge success
35:29of her job
35:30of publicising
35:31Monaco
35:32with these Red Cross
35:33galas
35:34and all the designers
35:35and getting film stars
35:37to come to these parties.
35:39She gave Monaco
35:40a glamour
35:41that it really
35:42hadn't had
35:43for years.
35:46Grace introduced
35:47a scheme
35:47which saw
35:48all Monogathic children
35:50receive one toy
35:51and one item
35:52of clothing
35:52from the Grimaldis
35:53each Christmas.
35:55She founded
35:56a day nursery
35:57for children
35:57of Monogathic
35:58working mothers
36:01and presided
36:03over children's
36:03welfare charities
36:04around the world.
36:09She had this
36:10instinctive relationship
36:12with children
36:15and so
36:16in that way
36:17she could
36:19give something
36:20fresh and new
36:21to the character
36:22of the principality.
36:24And then there was
36:24this element
36:24of art,
36:27creativity.
36:30was the theatre
36:32which was very
36:33important to her.
36:38And that again
36:39gave Monaco
36:40a sort of intellectual
36:41class that it
36:43hadn't had.
36:47To keep
36:48herself stimulated
36:49Grace surrounded
36:51herself with
36:52old Hollywood friends.
36:53Frank Sinatra
36:54was a frequent
36:55and British actor
36:57David Niven
36:58who had bought
36:59a property
36:59close by
37:00became especially
37:01close.
37:08In May 1974
37:11Rainier celebrated
37:12the silver jubilee
37:13of his reign
37:14with a Texas barbecue
37:15at the local
37:16football stadium
37:17for every citizen
37:18of Monaco.
37:20Grace was in
37:21attendance
37:21as she was
37:23for all major
37:24engagements
37:24through the 60s
37:25and 70s.
37:27But sightings
37:28of Grace
37:29and Rainier
37:29together
37:29became rarer.
37:32I don't think
37:33he was a
37:33tremendously
37:34giving person.
37:36Rather detached
37:37I think.
37:39And he also
37:40had this tendency
37:41to go to sleep
37:42at dinner
37:42which isn't
37:43very encouraging
37:44for a wife
37:45is it?
37:46When Grace
37:47bought an apartment
37:48in Paris
37:49reports that
37:50the royal couple
37:51had separated
37:52spread through
37:53Europe.
37:54Grace once
37:55said to one
37:56of her friends
37:57for me
37:57moving to Paris
37:58it's our way
37:59of getting
38:00divorced.
38:01But she also
38:03needed to escape
38:03from Monaco
38:04which was so
38:05confining
38:05she wanted
38:06the children
38:07better educated.
38:08It was a solution
38:09to the problems
38:10in her life.
38:13The film you're
38:15going to see
38:15is about the
38:16children of
38:17Theatre Street
38:18in Leningrad.
38:19They are the
38:20protagonists.
38:24In 1976
38:26Grace was invited
38:28to narrate a
38:28documentary
38:29The Children
38:30of Theatre Street
38:31following the
38:32children of the
38:33Kirov Ballet
38:34School.
38:35Earl Mack's
38:36Academy Award
38:36nominated film
38:37saw Grace
38:38performing on
38:39screen for the
38:40first time in
38:4120 years.
38:43There were
38:44suggestions that
38:45Grace had grown
38:45close to Robert
38:46Dornhelm, the
38:48director of the
38:48documentary.
38:50Rumours about
38:51the extent of
38:51several of Grace's
38:52friendships with
38:53men would persist
38:54throughout the
38:551970s.
38:59With her marriage
39:00seemingly under
39:01strain, so too
39:03was her
39:03relationship with
39:04her children.
39:06Albert had always
39:08been a quiet and
39:09placid child.
39:11But as her
39:12daughters grew up
39:12under the media
39:13gaze, their private
39:16lives filled the
39:17European gossip
39:17columns.
39:19Grace found
39:20mothering difficult.
39:22She approached it
39:23with all the energy
39:24and enthusiasm she'd
39:25learnt from her
39:26mother.
39:27But it didn't seem to
39:29work with the girls.
39:31Caroline and Stephanie
39:32were both awkward,
39:34difficult.
39:34in an environment
39:37of particularly
39:38spoiled, rich kids.
39:40Caroline was very
39:42headstrong.
39:43She was going to get
39:45married, never mind
39:46what mummy thought.
39:48In 1977, Grace and
39:51Rainier were distraught
39:52when 20-year-old
39:53Caroline revealed she
39:55would marry 37-year-old
39:56businessman and
39:57notorious nightclubber
39:59Philippe Junot.
40:06I think they wanted,
40:07you know, a nice
40:08French aristocrat or
40:11German aristocrat or
40:12English aristocrat or
40:15nice American
40:16millionaire or
40:16something.
40:20What they didn't want
40:21was a sort of
40:23playboy aspect.
40:24But then if you're
40:25going to live in
40:26Monaco, that's what
40:27you're going to get.
40:29Caroline's divorce came
40:31just two years later.
40:33The strain on Grace,
40:35together with her own
40:36fears about getting
40:36older, her struggles
40:38with her weight and
40:40her troubled marriage
40:41was to some obvious.
40:46In 1981, Grace was
40:49invited to give a
40:49poetry recital at
40:51Goldsmiths Hall in
40:52London.
40:54Diana said, I
40:56diagnosed great
40:58unhappiness beneath
41:00there.
41:02I think they
41:03empathised a great
41:04deal.
41:04I think that they
41:05sort of saw
41:05similarities.
41:08The evening was
41:10Lady Diana's first
41:11public event with
41:12Prince Charles,
41:13following the
41:13announcement of
41:14their engagement.
41:17Grace gave the
41:1819-year-old a hint
41:19of what lay ahead.
41:20For Diana, she
41:23wore this plunging
41:26off-the-shoulder
41:27black frock.
41:29And all the press
41:31peered down her
41:32cleavage, as you
41:33can imagine, the
41:34photographs that
41:35resulted.
41:36And she wasn't
41:38supposed to wear
41:38black.
41:39She certainly
41:40wasn't supposed to
41:41show all that
41:41bosom.
41:42She was really
41:44nervous about the
41:46whole thing.
41:46and she said
41:48to Grace, is
41:49it always like
41:50this?
41:51And Grace
41:52said, it
41:53gets worse.
41:56On April
41:57the 19th, 1981,
42:00Grace and
42:01Rainier celebrated
42:02their 25th wedding
42:03anniversary.
42:04Their official
42:05photo showed a
42:07relaxed couple, at
42:08ease with one
42:09another.
42:10They seemed to
42:11have found
42:12contentment at
42:13last.
42:14In August
42:151982, during a
42:17family holiday,
42:19Grace had
42:19complained of
42:20headaches.
42:23In early
42:24September, the
42:26family were at
42:26their country
42:27house in
42:28Roque-Agele,
42:29France.
42:30Over the
42:31weekend, Grace
42:32had been arguing
42:33with Stephanie
42:34about where she
42:34was returning
42:35to study.
42:36Grace had
42:37pulled incredible
42:38strings to get
42:39her into the
42:40fashion school
42:40in Paris.
42:41She said, no,
42:42I don't want to
42:43go to fashion
42:43school.
42:44I want to go
42:45off and be a
42:45racing car driver.
42:47And with that,
42:48something seemed
42:49to have snapped
42:49with Grace.
42:53On the morning
42:54of the 13th of
42:55September, Grace
42:56made the decision
42:57to drive Stephanie
42:58back to the
42:58palace en route
42:59to Paris.
43:04At 9.30am,
43:06she stepped
43:07into her rover
43:07to make the
43:08journey back to
43:09Monaco.
43:12Grace, who
43:13had always
43:13hated driving,
43:15took the same
43:15stretch of
43:16mountain road
43:17she had driven
43:17a terrified
43:18Cary Grant
43:19along in to
43:20catch a thief.
43:21I think they
43:22had a terrific
43:23quarrel in the
43:25car coming
43:25down.
43:27I've read
43:27the testimony
43:28of the lorry
43:29driver who was
43:29behind them,
43:30who saw
43:31strangely the
43:32car banging
43:33into the
43:34side of the
43:34road as if
43:35the couple
43:36inside were
43:36tussling.
43:37as she
43:38was approaching
43:39this terribly
43:41dangerous curve
43:42on the road
43:43the car
43:44just went
43:45straight over
43:46the edge.
43:51The rover
43:52plunged 120
43:54feet.
43:56Stephanie
43:56staggered away
43:57from the wreckage
43:58but Grace
43:59was taken to
43:59hospital,
44:00critically injured
44:01and unconscious.
44:03She had
44:04suffered a
44:04massive brain
44:05injury.
44:07Grace was
44:07thrown in the
44:08back.
44:09Stephanie, who
44:10was a gymnast
44:10anyway, hung
44:12on.
44:13And then the
44:14rumours came
44:15because Grace
44:15was in the
44:16back that she
44:16wasn't driving,
44:18that Stephanie
44:18was driving.
44:20That's what
44:20happened and I
44:21think it was
44:22pretty awful for
44:23Stephanie really.
44:25Doctors also
44:26identified the
44:27likely cause of
44:28the accident.
44:30It was a sort
44:31of slight stroke
44:32that you'd just
44:33maybe fall off
44:34your chair if
44:36you were sitting
44:36there or lose
44:38consciousness but
44:39not a severe
44:41stroke at all.
44:42She wouldn't have
44:42died if it hadn't
44:44been for the crash.
44:52The following
44:53day, with the
44:54family at her
44:55bedside,
44:59Rainier gave
45:00permission to
45:00switch off the
45:01life support
45:02machine.
45:05At 10.35
45:06that night,
45:07Princess Grace
45:08of Monaco
45:09was pronounced
45:10dead.
45:17For three days,
45:20Princess Grace
45:20lay in state
45:21in the chapel
45:22of the royal
45:23palace to allow
45:25every Monegasque
45:26to pay their
45:27respects.
45:42The whole world
45:43was kind of
45:44amazed.
45:46You just
45:47didn't think
45:48that Grace
45:48would die.
46:01A full
46:02royal funeral
46:03at the
46:03Cathedral of
46:04St Nicholas
46:05followed.
46:06Her coffin
46:07resting at the
46:09altar where she
46:10had stood with
46:11Rainier 26
46:12years earlier.
46:14He was
46:15obviously
46:16completely
46:16shattered.
46:17I think
46:19he depended
46:19on her
46:20so much
46:21more
46:21than he'd
46:22realised.
46:24The marriage
46:25had got back
46:26onto a plateau
46:27of happiness
46:28so it must
46:29have been
46:29incredibly
46:31difficult for
46:32him and
46:32one can only
46:32speculate
46:33about the
46:34regrets and
46:35if only
46:36that he
46:36must have
46:37felt.
46:38Family,
46:40friends,
46:41heads of
46:41state and
46:42royalty,
46:43including the
46:44newly married
46:44Princess Diana,
46:46looked on.
46:46and
46:47the
46:47monogasks
46:48felt that
46:48life had
46:49gone out
46:50of the
46:50place.
46:51They were
46:52very,
46:52very distressed.
46:53A lot of
46:54people I spoke
46:55to saw
46:55months later
46:56tears would
46:58come to their
46:59eyes when
46:59they spoke
46:59of Grace.
47:03Decades
47:03after her
47:04death,
47:05the name
47:05of Grace
47:06Kelly is
47:07iconic.
47:08As a film
47:09actress,
47:10she remains
47:11one of
47:12Hollywood's
47:12greats,
47:13while her
47:14charities
47:14continue to
47:15be testament
47:16to the
47:17girl from
47:17Philadelphia
47:18who became
47:19a princess.
47:20Grace left
47:21two legacies.
47:22She brought
47:23grace and
47:23dignity and
47:24fun and
47:25light and
47:25glamour to
47:26Monaco.
47:28She beautified
47:29the place for
47:30one brief
47:31shining moment.
47:33But of course
47:33her real
47:34contribution,
47:35her real
47:35legacy is in
47:36the movies
47:37where she was
47:39Gracie.
47:39A fantasy
47:40figure really
47:40for men
47:41and women.
47:43Laughing,
47:43sparkling,
47:44sophisticated,
47:45naughty as
47:46well.
47:47It was all
47:47in one
47:48beautiful
47:48package.
48:17marriage.
48:18love,
48:23honey.
48:25What?
48:28Hang on.
48:29Bye.
48:29Bye.
48:29Bye.
48:31Bye.
48:31Bye.
48:31Bye.