A Wedding in Monaco

Grace Kelly y el príncipe Rainiero se casan en una ceremonia católica. Reciben presentes de todas partes del mundo y la boda es presenciada por grandes estrellas de Hollywood. Para saber: el interés de Alfred Hitchcock por invitar a Grace a trabajar en Marnie. En vocabulario: blare, epaulett, quash

An open Rolls Royce waits to carry them on a tour through the streets of Monte Carlo…

Director Herbert Ross tried to interest her in a part in his film The Turning Point…

A Royal Wedding

Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier wedding ceremony – guests from all over the world – great publicity – Catholic ceremony –

After all the fever of publicity, the acres of news prints, the fashion notes and the jewel robberies, the great day approaches at last when Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, USA, will become the bride of Rainier, Prince of Monaco.

Wedding gifts have come from all over the world: gifts in gold and silver, jewelry and fine porcelain; presents from kings and queens, presidents and commoners, movie magnets and millionaires. A pile of riches which looks as though Aladin has rubbed his lamp to furnish this fairy tale wedding.

At the Opera House Monegasque See Grace at her first public event as Rainier´s wife. But she is still only half a princess. The civil marriage has been held privately but the solemn cathedral ceremony is still to come.

On the wedding day the Mediterranean sun shines as brilliantly as anyone could wish. When Grace arrives on her father´s arms past guards of honor from the visiting British, French, Italian and American warships. A few minutes later the bridegroom arrives.

Now, almost for the first time in months, the blare of publicity is silenced in the beauty and dignity of the natural mass.

The bride waits at the altar and the bridegroom comes forward to join.

A quick smile from the prince and the ceremony is due to begin.

The bishop of Monaco conducts the marriage service.

Now comes the moment for the exchanging of rings. The bishop hands one to the bridegroom who is a little nervous. Grace helps him in putting on.

Mr. and Mrs. Kelly watch as the young couple kneel to pray before receiving Holy Communion.

The wedding is over and Prince Rainier´s bride is no longer Grace Kelly but her serene highness Princess Grace of Monaco.

The nervous tension of the last few days begins to relax as the prince and princess leave the cathedral to greet the cheering people.

An open Rolls Royce waits to carry them on a tour through the streets of Monte Carlo. As handsome a couple as any tellers of fairy tales could have described the prince in his dark uniform with the shining epauletts and the princess in his ivory gown with 300 yards of lace and 150 yard of silk. So a Hollywood star becomes a princess, in a setting even Hollywood could scarcely have surpassed.

Para saber

Alfred Hitchcock offered Princess Grace the lead in his film Marnie in 1962. She was eager, but public outcry in Monaco against her involvement in a film where she would play a kleptomaniac made her reconsider and ultimately reject the project. Director Herbert Ross tried to interest her in a part in his film The Turning Point (1977), but Rainier quashed the idea. Later that year, she returned to the arts in a series of poetry readings on stage and narration of the documentary The Children of Theater Street. She also narrated ABC's made-for-television film The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966).

Alfred Hitchcock, 1975

Vocabulario

blare: a loud, harsh sound.

epaulett: an ornamental shoulder piece on an item of clothing, especially on the coat or jacket of a military uniform.

"an army greatcoat with fancy epaulettes and brass buttons"

quash: reject, cancel, repeal.

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