{The 40s of a Princess}

"Grace was horrified to reach 40" - said her good friend Rita Gamm. Grace Kelly, during her time in Hollywood, looked askance the future. Fortunately she hadn´t to suffer the rejection of the film producers for not being young, she became a princess.

       "I dread to think when I will have to get up at 5 am for makeup" - said the young Grace Kelly in an interview in 1955.

       But Grace, after giving birth to her third daughter, Stephanie, was more beautiful than ever. It´s true that she had trouble saving her weith maintenance , but she had found a unique style in France, the american princess was stunning. Not even the young Princess Paola de Liege - current queen of Belgium-, considered spectacularly beautiful by the media, managed to overshadow Grace.

     In 1969, when she had celebrated her 40th birthday in november 12th, Cecil Beaton taked her a photoshoot in the Palace of Monaco´s garden. She appeared with the only neccesary makeup, minimal style and a french twist.

{Source: Cecil Beaton 1969/Vogue FR//Sheila Grace´sPlace}

{Interview with Grace Kelly as She Leaves for Wedding}

 

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The video taked place in New York Harbor, in early April 1956. Weeks before the wedding in Monaco. She was stunning in every moments of her life, but what a elegance outfit: the white hat and the short globes. Miss Kelly buyed all the appearel in Phoenix (TX), Los Angeles (CA) and in New York city. Some of her dresses were used in Hollywood and others were designed by her closed friend Helen Rose (who also designed her wedding gown) and Edith Head.

{Everything in its place}

       

                                     

{The Secret Garden}

{Eclectic}

{Bad Days, Neccesary Reflexion}

Today was a strange day. Because while I've been immersed in my inner sadness, and I have also been victim of the frailties of the idealistic human, sometimes, I have been aware of the Truth, millimeter part, very small.

        We expect a lot fromothers, and they usually suck the blood ourselves. We put our expectations in others, we envision our satisfaction at the approval of friends, or family, or partner. But it is a mistake it is fatal.

        Happiness, to the extent of ecstasy, gratitude to God, our nature is nearest to the pleasures that it gives selflessly. There is no question of receiving love, to find or not find it. The key is located in the method, on the way to go. Give love, give love day and night, to give love in summer or winter, to give love to a friend or your boyfriend, give love. Giving love. When you are giving, we see that even being selfish, we recover the investment in ourselves, not others.

"For having lived in Westminster - how many years now? over twenty, - one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, that said, by influenza) before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; the the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one lives it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June."

"Mrs Dalloway" by Virginia Wolf.

{They Called it "Love"}

{Rainier and Grace of Monaco enjoy of some days in Ocean City, NJ 1956}
 
 
{The marriage in Roc Angel, Switzerland, 1966}

"My darling,

This is to tell you in a very mild way how terribly much I love you, miss you, need you and want you near me always. Safe trip my love. Rest, relax and think of me burning myself out with this terrible longing of you, for you. I love you so."

— Prince Rainier III to Grace Kelly, April 1956


{Monte Carlo, Monaco. 1969}

{Paola of Belgium; An Album of Happiness by Henry Clarke}

I see some of last Princess Grace on her. The pictures were taked by the fashion photographer Henry Clarke to Paola Ruffo di Calabria, wife of Prince Albert of Belgium, Princess of Liege and current Queen of Belgium and her children in 1965

{Early Autumn Reflexion...}

{Creating a Bedroom}

Where to find it:
The bed, the wallpaper is avaiable in Antropology.
The lamp is from Robert Abbey.
The bedding from Restaoration Hardware.
The rug is from Madeleine Weinrib.