Member of the wedding… Actress Grace Kelly (right), who took time out from Trousseau shopping to attend the March 23rd 1956 wedding of her fellow actress Rita Gam (left) and book publishing executive Thomas Guinzburg, stands with the happy pair after their marriage here at Guinzburg’s father’s Sutton Square apartment. Mrs. Guinzburg, nee Gam, will be a bridesmaid at Grace’s wedding to Prince Rainier at Monaco next month.
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382Princess Grace with her children at the Monte Carlo's beach club in the summer of 1966.
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383Grace Kelly (and other models) visit Paris in advertising footage filmed during her years as a young model and TV actress in New York after graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, circa 1949.
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384“Suddenly the television cameras started rolling, her smile disappeared and her expression became serious, and Grace turned into the Princess she was to become.” April 4 1956, Grace Kelly leaves New York for Monaco ahead of her wedding.
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386Princess Grace of Monaco attends the Trinity Mission Starlight Christmas Benefit Gala at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, New York, December 15, 1977.
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387Princess Grace of Monaco at the 15th-anniversary dinner of the Irish American Cultural Institute at the Radisson Saint Paul, Minnesota, on July 28, 1978. Here she is, along with IACI founder Dr Eoin McKiernan, at the event.
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389Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco on board the ocean liner "SS Constitution", arriving from the U.S. after a six-week trip to the United States from September to November 1956. The former Hollywood star wears a tailored suit with a gently flared jacket and the Cartier brooch in the shape of a poodle that was one of her favourite pieces of jewelry.
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390Rare photo of young Grace Kelly with an unknown gentleman at a party circa 1949.
She looks wearing the same dress she wore at the New Year's Eve party with her family a year before. See below:
She looks wearing the same dress she wore at the New Year's Eve party with her family a year before. See below:
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392Princess Grace during skiing holidays in Gstaad in February 1962. Photos by Daniele Derolle.
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396Grace Kelly in High Society (1956). Grace is wearing her engagement ring, a 10.5-carat, emerald-cut, diamond flanked by two baguettes given to her by Prince Rainier of Monaco whom she married after this film. Costume designed by Helen Rose, who would also design her wedding dress.
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399Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco photographed entering the Grand Hotel in Rome in 1959.