Hollywood princess Grace Kelly dreamed of being invisible and living in Ireland
msn.comHollywood 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.
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