True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess

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		True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess
		True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess

基本信息·出版社：Thomas Dunne Books
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2007年03月
·ISBN：0312342365
·International Standard Book Number：0312342365
·条形码：9780312342364
·EAN：9780312342364
·版本：1st
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语

内容简介    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.     
作者简介

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.

媒体推荐 “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  
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

Grace Kelly's public persona sounds glam: a Hollywood star marries royalty. But behind the cameras were decades of unhappiness and a lonely death. And in this well-researched biography, Leigh (Prince Charming: The John F. Kennedy, Jr., Story) presents Kelly as the daughter of a self-made millionaire known for his philandering and emotional indifference. Yet she was eager to impress him and longed for attention. She found it onscreen and in a series of affairs with older, married men: Ray Milland, Bing Crosby, Gary Cooper and the Shah of Iran. In fact, according to Leigh, she had affairs before and after her marriage. Kelly looked cool, but she was sexually aggressive—a subject that Leigh doesn't shy away from. The mystery is why the Oscar winner chose Prince Rainier, the ill-tempered, cash-strapped ruler of a tiny principality. It wasn't a love match: Rainier got a $2 million dowry, while Kelly's glamour turned a dissolute country into a playpen for the rich and famous. Kelly hoped to keep her career and was crushed when she realized marriage had trapped her. She could divorce—but she couldn't take her children. Leigh makes certain to note Rainier's infidelities—along with chronicling Kelly's history, acting career and charitable work in Monaco. (Apr.)
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From Booklist

Forever known as "America's Princess," Grace Kelly provided such a rich vein of material for so many biographers that Leigh confesses she was only granted a publishing contract for her project if she could promise not to do anything "warmed over." Accepting the challenge, Leigh discovered that ferreting out new information was not as difficult as she once feared, and her interviews with more than 100 people not previously tapped by Kelly biographers form the basis of this scintillating portrait of a woman best known for her ethereal beauty and incandescent charm. After divulging the salacious details of Kelly's off-screen romances with many of her presumably happily married costars, Leigh focuses on the farce behind Kelly's fairy-tale wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier in which the once-confident actress is depicted as a Rapunzel-like damsel trapped in the castle tower. Although the wealth of indelicate details may dismay loyal Kelly fans, Leigh's iconoclastic rendering strives to reveal the fragile woman behind the famous image. Carol Haggas
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