11 September 2011

{Original "Wedding in Monaco" MGM Film, 1956 directed by J. Masson}


April, 1956. Monaco celebrates the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier. Preparations are under way in this principality of 4,000 citizens and 16,000 foreign residents. The U.S. Constitution comes to port; Ms. Kelly disembarks onto the Prince's yacht. That evening, she walks the state rooms of the palace. In the morning, a civil ceremony precedes a party for the nation on the palace grounds. That evening, dancers entertain the royal couple before their nuptial Mass. The next day, the city's populace cheers as a motorcade takes the couple to the yacht for their honeymoon. Protocol, tradition, and love combine; beauty and pageantry, heretofore only imagined, become real...

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Second Part:


{Last Days of Summer; Lavande Lunch}



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{Photos by Kt Merry via This is Glamourous}