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Rainier had been ruling for seven years when he met beautiful American actress Grace Kelly. The star was in Monaco filming the Hitchcock classic To Catch A Thief - a film which ironically included scenes on the twisty mountain roads behind Monte Carlo where Grace would later meet her untimely death.
“I was a rather tepid admirer of Grace Kelly when she was presented to me on a visit to Monaco for the actors taking part in the 1955 Cannes Film Festival,” remembered Rainier as he approached his 65th birthday. “She said, ‘If you come to America, I’d be delighted to see you.’ As it happened I went to America that Christmas, saw her and we decided, there and then, to get married."
Hollywood itself could not have concocted a better script - after a whirlwind romance, Prince Rainier and the princess of the silver screen married in 1956. And Grace Kelly became Grace of Monaco, cutting short her highly successful acting career for a full-time job as the principality's reigning princess.
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