It’s good to be a Prince.
I saw some of the wedding today. Everybody looked very tense and upset, including the bride and groom.
I hope they didn’t give Charlene the “tea towels are already monogramed” baloney.
What a farce.
The story continues...
Yeah the hawt babe really married him for his looks. /s
And if she's infertile?
what a mess.
hmm.. like The Tudors except not quite so overstated.
“It’s good to be da prince!”
The bodice of Grace's magnificent dress was made of antique lace, and a high cummerbund of ivory silk faille encircled the bride’s slim waist.
The full silk skirt was bell-shaped and the silk tulle veil had two lace lovebirds appliquéd at the back. According to MGM Studios, the bridal ensemble had taken six weeks to create and involved the skills of 35 craftspeople, working under strict conditions to preserve the secrecy of the design. Helen Rose designed both the cathedral and the civil-ceremony wedding dresses.
As was the Monaguesque custom, the civil marriage of Grace and Prince Rainier took place in the Monaco palace throne room on 18 April 1956. The bride was beautiful in a beige lace and dusty rose silk suit with a fitted bodice and skirt that flared into a full hem. A close-fitting hat trimmed with silk flowers, pink silk pumps and white gloves added the final touches.
MGM Studio also gave its star a dozen Helen Rose-designed outfits from High Society – the musical comedy that was to be the actress’s 11th and final film. She expanded her trousseau to some 40 outfits during a rapid shopping trip to New York. The colour palette included beige, delicate pastels and her favourite hue, yellow.
Grace's daughter Caroline on her wedding day (first husband).
They no longer offer him in a can?
I’m curious about the medals the groom is seen wearing. Did he serve in the armed forces?
Looks like the reports she tried to run may be true. Poor woman.
How did they meet anyway? At an YMCA swimming class?
What a mess that family is. I used to be interested in Grace Kelly and her move to Princess Grace, but it is far from fairy tale. It was not a great love and her son Albert puts on another show. Anyone find it creepy he found a woman somewhat similar in appearance to his mother?
I’ll take Prince Albert over the POS we have any day.
Barack Plantagenet the First,
addressing the peasants: that’s us, FRiends!
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChfXlhX1F4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Thanks for posting the story. After all the hoopla and 3 month buildup, the wedding was a big snooze, IMO.
The dress was less than I expected... Not very memorable, and IIRC almost a direct copy of Victoria of Sweden’s wedding dress.
The guests looked old, tired, and bored.
This family is the Euro Soap Opera- an ongoing operetta of a completely dysfunctional family.
It was a classy Continental wedding without the circus clown hats that the vulgar German royalty was sporting recently in London.