April 19, 1956 - To fulfill the requirements of French law, and Roman Catholic rules on marriage, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco had both civil and religious weddings. The church ceremony took place at Monaco’s Saint Nicholas Cathedral. The ceremony was watched by an estimated 30 million people on television.
April 18, 1956 - To fulfill the requirements of French law, and Roman Catholic rules on marriage, Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco had both civil and religious weddings. The 40-minute civil ceremony took place in the Palace Throne of Monaco.
January 5, 1956 - Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco announced their engagement in the home of Grace’s parents in Philadelphia.
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Smiling in a brisk March wind and surrounded by photographers and fans, Grace Kelly poses just off of Fifth Avenue in New York, 1956.
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Prince Rainier and Princess Grace’s 57th Wedding Anniversary | April 18, 1956
Lovers, the two were also friends. Despite all the differences in background and taste, they liked being together.
Grace and Rainier had their problems, of course, but the years brought them closer together and deeper in love. When Maureen King left their service (in 1965), she gave in to the temptation to write a memoir. In it she described watching Grace and Rainier walk “hand in hand in the garden, … A picture of vibrant happiness,” or finding them sitting together on the sofa in the salon, where they “reminded me of young lovers.”
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Grace Kelly, circa 1950. Photo by Paul Popper
Grace Kelly at a Venician Ball, Italy, September 1967. Photo by Loomis Dean
Grace Kelly photographed by Howell Conant in Jamarica, 1955.
Model Grace, 1951. That smile! ♥
