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90 Years of Grace: The Hollywood Princess

Though her acting career was short-lived compared to her role as the Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly was certainly one of the top stars in Hollywood in the mid-1950s. Starting in live television and transitioning to Hollywood roles—and ultimately winding up as an Oscar-winning, Hitchcockian ice-blonde cool girl—the myth of Grace Kelly loomed large over Hollywood lore long after she’d traded…
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90 Years of Grace: Her '80s Style

Today we’re looking back at some of Princess Grace’s most stylish moments of the 1980s. Before her untimely death in 1982, Grace maintained an active schedule of royal duties. She also struck up a friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales, prior to her wedding, and the two met frequently. Other major events she attended included Hollywood tributes and family weddings. Princess Grace…
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90 Years of Grace: The Most Famous Royal Couple in the World

On 5 January 1956, from her parents’ house, Grace Kelly announced her engagement to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. “A big day in Philadelphia when millionaire John B. Kelly’s daughter, film star Grace Kelly, announces her engagement to Prince Rainier, the 32-year-old ruler of the pocket state of Monaco. A pretty famous pocket at that, it consists almost entirely of…
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Duchess of Cornwall presents awards

The Duchess of Cornwall held a reception at Buckingham Palace on Thursday for the winners of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition. This year’s Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was held under the theme of ‘A Connected Commonwealth, and “asked entrants to consider how they can work to use cultural, technological and environmental connections for positive change across…
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