After decades of orchestrated press coverage, it was a first serious glimpse at the vulnerable side of the icon, and it led to more. In the summer of 1983, People magazine commissioned Linda Marx to research and write a major profile, Grace Kelly of Philadelphia, which was published on the first anniversary of Grace’s death. But Princess Caroline considered it offensive of her mother’s friend to publish the book so close to Grace’s death, and she wrote to tell the author as much.Ĭaroline was apparently unaware of all that could have been written about her mother. The author did not alter or restore the pages she had expurgated at Grace’s request. This commemorative edition was as warm and complimentary as the original. In the days following Grace’s death and funeral in 1982, Gwen Robyns added a final chapter to her biography of the princess, which was reissued within weeks as Princess Grace: 1929-1982. I was lucky to draw on the work and discoveries of a number of other writers when I started my own researches in 1991, and any list of acknowledgments must begin by expressing my thanks to them. I am by no means the first biographer to have written about Grace Kelly. Martyn Forrester has coordinated the re-publication with such panache – Anglo-French words seem particularly appropriate to the story of Princess Grace – and I would also like to thank Jamie and Louise Downham for their striking design and cover. I am very happy to welcome this new edition of my biography of Grace Kelly, and would like to thank my enterprising literary agent Jonathan Pegg for finding such a quick-moving and stylish publisher in Apostrophe. Publishing information 366 AUTHOR’S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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