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# A prince who falls in love with a beautiful Hollywood actress: the story is worthy of a fairy tale. Grace Kelly and Rainier from Monaco have experienced one of the most glamorous love stories ever. Back on the story of a princely couple.
She gave up her career as a Hollywood actress for him, he was madly in love.  The history of the Principality of Monaco took a decisive turn with the wedding of Rainier III and Grace Kelly.  History of the marriage of the century. 

# An arranged encounter
Contrary to what many people would be entitled to think, the meeting between Grace and Rainier is certainly not due to chance. In the mid-1950s, tourism is at half mast in Monaco. In the absence of economic benefits, the future of the Principality is considered uncertain. Wishing to make Monaco the meeting place for the entire jet set, Rainier's idea is to get closer to the United States. Aristotle Onassis, then close friend of the prince and influential member of the principality, suggests to Rainier to marry an American actress. While Onassis hesitates between Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, the choice of the prince is on the second option, judging the latter more suited to the status of princess.

The actress then meets the prince on May 6, 1955, during the Cannes Film Festival, where Grace is invited to present her latest film "The Crime Was Near Perfect" by Alfred Hitchcock. The interview is organized by Pierre Galante, reporter at Paris Match and its director Gaston Bonheur, and is the subject of a photo shoot between Grace Kelly and Rainier de Monaco. But the prince does not intend to stop there. Through Prince J .Francis Tucker, Prince's confessor, Rainier III of Monaco is invited to the Kelly family to spend the end of year celebrations. During this period, the two come closer, and end up announcing their engagement on January 6, 1956, during a charity ball.
# A story worthy of a fairy tale
If the story seems straight out of a fairy tale, the rumors about the couple persist. The principality would closely monitor the prince's fiancee, ask for an astronomical dower, and submit Grace to fertility tests. Impervious to rumors, the couple is like on a small cloud. A few days before the ceremony, the actress, arrived in Monaco thanks to the ship SS Constitution, is greeted with colorful carnations, and cannon shots are fired in her honor. Aware of the radical change in life that is taking place, however, his air is serious at its last press conference.

The wedding takes place on April 18, 1956. The ceremony is grand. It takes place a few years after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth , and is broadcast live all over Europe and watched by millions of viewers. Grace appears majestic, in a now famous dress, made of silk and embroidery, also covered with pearls. The creation is offered by Metro Goldwyn Meyer Studios to which the actress is affiliated. In return, they have the exclusive shooting of the ceremony. With its 600 guests and incredible preparations, we can better understand why this union is called the "marriage of the century".
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# Learning about princess life

If everything seems idyllic, the transition from being a Hollywood actress to a princess is not easy for Grace. The princess must learn French in three months, but also the history and protocol of the principality to fulfill perfectly its role of wife of head of state. She does it perfectly, mastering French perfectly and fulfilling her duties as a sovereign.

Their marital life is happy, and together, Grace and Rainier have three children: Caroline Louise Marguerite in 1957, Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre in 1958, and Stephanie Marie Elizabeth in 1965. The couple will live a peaceful life until the death of Grace in 1982, following a tragic car accident on the heights of Monaco, while the princess was driving her 17-year-old daughter Stéphanie to an internship in the world of haute couture in Paris. A death that rings the end of a cloudless union. As for Prince Rainier, he died many years later, in April 2005, in Monaco.
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