Hollywood princess Grace Kelly dreamed of being invisible and living in Ireland
24.09.2022 - 23:51
/ msn.com
Hollywood to be a Princess in glitzy Monaco. . .
but held a secret yearning to live the quiet life in Ireland. The star of films like High Noon and Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder had a small cottage near Cork. Grace – or Princess Grace of Monaco as she became – was of Irish descent.
And one of her closest confidants, film director Robert Dornhelm, today reveals her wish to live in her ancestral home land. Speaking after the 40th anniversary of her death, Robert says Grace’s dream was to fade into obscurity. He reveals she longed to walk through Paris unrecognised and was, at heart, an ordinary woman who dreamed of a simpler life.
Robert, who worked with Grace in the five years before her death in a car crash, tells the Sunday People : “She wanted to be invisible and be with normal people, go to restaurants and pubs. “We did it occasionally when she was living in Paris, which was when I knew her, and she was always very proud that she was not recognised and she could be normal. “She thought she would end up a mad lady on the Paris Metro, with nobody noticing her.
That she could move freely with no one knowing her. It wasn’t her worry, it was her hope. “She dreamed a lot about Ireland, where she had a cottage near Cork.
It is where she wanted to end up. She was a total romantic and dreamer. I think Ireland would have suited her quite well.
“But at the same time, the way her life developed was like a fairytale. It couldn’t have ended in some grey way, with her disappearing, not being noticed. It wouldn’t have fitted her whole life story.
She was born to be special and to not have a normal life. ”Austrian Robert, 74, was the last film director to work with Grace and was with her just two days before her fatal car crash. They
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