A new film starring Nicole Kidman about the life of Grace Kelly has enraged the Monaco royal family, which has denounced the work as being full of fiction.<\/p>\nA new film starring Nicole Kidman about the life of Grace Kelly has enraged the Monaco royal family, which has denounced the work as being full of fiction.<\/p>\n
When Kelly gave up her Hollywood career to marry Prince Rainier, she believed that she had found the perfect husband, but six years later – after bearing him an heir and an elder daughter – she was so disillusioned that she has decided she will flee back home to America, where she has been offered 1 million dollars to star in Marnie, a new Alfred Hitchcock thriller.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t the money the money that has attracted her, she confided to her husband\u2019s chaplain and closest adviser, Father Francis Tucker, that Rainier\u2019s tyrannical rules and explosive temper had worn her out, the beautiful 32-year-old tells the elderly priest.<\/p>\n
What will happen, she asks him, if she accepts the Hitchcock role and seeks a divorce? The Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour children will suffer most. They are heirs to a European throne. You\u2019ll be lucky to see them again. I suppose the world will also hang its head in disappointment,\u201d the Daily Mail quoted Tucker as telling her.<\/p>\n
The project, which also stars Tim Roth as Rainier and Frank Langella as Father Tucker, was recently denounced by Grace\u2019s son, Prince Albert, and his sisters Caroline and Stephanie, as \u2018needlessly glamourised\u2019 and riddled with \u2018major historical inaccuracies and a series of purely fictional scenes\u2019.<\/p>\n
\nBut the 106-page script is based on hundreds of interviews biographers have conducted over many years with palace insiders and other first-hand sources.<\/p>\n
The family\u2019s real fear, it seems, may be that the film has broken a long-standing Hollywood taboo about bringing the truth about the marriage to the big screen – and it may set the stage for more embarrassing projects.<\/p>\n
While Rainier sleeps in a separate room from Grace in the script, and is said to be constantly \u2018busy\u2019 during the daytime, the production glosses over accusations that he was unfaithful.<\/p>\n
According to her 2007 book, \u2018True Grace\u2019, the suave, cigar-smoking prince began cheating on Grace soon after she became pregnant during their honeymoon. Within months, he had taken at least three mistresses.<\/p>\n
The daughter of a socially ambitious Philadelphia brickworks owner, she became infatuated with several of her leading men.<\/p>\n
While shooting the Hitchcock thriller \u2018Dial M For Murder\u2019 in 1954, she scandalised Hollywood by conducting an affair with her married co-star, Ray Milland.<\/p>\n
She met Rainier during a photoshoot in 1955 at his palace. Six years her senior, he was seeking a wife with the help of a crony, the Greek shipping baron Aristotle Onassis, played in the film by Robert Lindsay.<\/p>\n
His quest was a matter of urgency. If he failed to conceive a legitimate heir, Monaco would become a French protectorate under the terms of a 1918 treaty.<\/p>\n
After she submitted to an examination to prove she was capable of bearing children, he presented her with a 12-carat diamond engagement ring.<\/p>\n
It isn\u2019t only Rainier\u2019s tantrums and constant absences that brought her marriage to the point of breakdown. As \u2018his\u2019 princess, she must submit totally to his rules which, according to the script, include smiling sweetly at his side and never voicing an opinion.<\/p>\n
Some biographers claim Rainier was violent as well as a control freak. During a tennis doubles match, he allegedly aimed a ball straight at Grace\u2019s face. When it hit her, the friend who was his doubles partner defended him, saying he was just \u2018desperate to win\u2019.<\/p>\n
When Grace finally plucks up the courage to tell Rainier that she would like to accept Hitchcock\u2019s million-dollar offer of the leading role in Marnie, he assures her \u201cI won\u2019t stand in your way.\u201d<\/p>\n
But his words \u2018don\u2019t ring true\u2019, and when her plans for the movie are leaked to the press – she suspects by palace plotters – the prince\u2019s 30,000 subjects are horrified.<\/p>\n
In the end, the role of Marnie went to another Hitchcock protegee, Tippi Hedren.
\nDespondent about life in a \u2018golden cage\u2019, she allegedly consulted an American divorce lawyer but, after being advised that she would lose her children, resigned herself to her fate in Monaco.<\/p>\n
The royals – who were shown the screenplay when Dahan applied for permission to shoot in Monaco – claim that to their \u2018astonishment\u2019, their \u2018numerous requests for changes\u2019 were ignored.<\/p>\n
Worn down by disappointment, she died in a 1982 car crash, apparently after suffering a stroke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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