Screen icon Grace Kelly gave up 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.
