True Grace
The Life and Times of an American Princess
By Wendy Leigh
(Thomas Dunne Books, Hardcover, 9780312342364, 320pp.)
Publication Date: March 20, 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback
Categories: Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses, Royalty
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Her Serene Highness, Princess Grace of Monaco, the legendary Hollywood screen siren, Grace Kelly is an American icon whose beauty is unrivalled, and whose oft-imitated aristocratic style and cool elegance has never been eclipsed.
Wendy Leigh- after three years' research - has gained unprecedented access to over one hundred sources who have never talked about Grace before, including nine of her until now undisclosed romances - among them an English aristocrat, an American tennis player, and a Hollywood legend - and also including her priest friend, Father Peter Jacobs, and Bernard Combemal, the former head of the S.B.M, the consortium that runs Monaco.
Wendy Leigh provides revealing new details about Grace's life, including her premarital romantic swan song which took place during her voyage to Monaco, the hitherto untold story of her troubling relationship with bridesmaid, Carolyn Reybold and the moving story of Grace's lifelong relationship with actor, David Niven.
Wendy Leigh paints a compelling portrait of Grace, the ambitious young actress, Grace, the dutiful princess who transformed the principality of Monaco into a jet-set haven, Grace, the kind-hearted philanthropist, Grace, the loving mother, and Grace, the patriotic American.
Wendy Leigh's book has not been written for those readers who wish to view Grace as a saint, but for those who - like Leigh herself - believes that she was a strong and wonderful woman.
is the New York Times best selling author of eleven books including 'Prince Charming; The J.F.K. Jr. Story,' and 'The Secret Letters of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy.' She lives in London.
"Wendy Leigh writes about Grace Kelly with wit, perception and understanding. Drawing on scores of personal interviews, Leigh weaves the threads of Kelly's story into a narrative more compelling and dramatic than any movie the Princess ever made." --Peter Evans, author of Nemesis: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and The Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys. "As amazing a read as the woman on the cover." --Social Life Magazine Praise for Wendy Leigh and True Grace:"Leigh's imagined correspondence between two fabled goddesses...is utterly fascinating....I began to think I was reading the real thing." --Dominic Dunne on The Secret Letters
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