An exhibition dedicated the belongings of the late Princess Grace of Monaco opened at the Yekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow today. 
The ”Epoch of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco” exhibit was opened by Grace’s youngest daughter, Princess Stephanie. The belongings on display include gowns, films, letters and photographs of the movie-star-turned-European-princess.
This is not the first time such an exhibit of the glamorous princess has been put on show. Last year, to mark the 25th anniversary of her death, an exhibit was opened in Monaco, where Grace served as princess to the late Prince Rainier. That exhibition has since toured the world, and is now in Russia.
“People in Russia don’t really know her as an icon of Hollywood,” said Russian construction tycoon Vladimir Seminikhin in a telephone interview from his residence in Monaco.
“They know her as royalty but that is usually it.”
Grace Kelly was an Academy-award winning actress before becoming a princess. She was well known for her roles in Alfred Hitchcock’s films, including “Dial M For Murder”. In 1955, she was introduced to Prince Rainier of Monaco. A year later, she married her prince, and retired from acting.
But that didn’t stop her from working the film camera. Part of the exhibition shows the homemade films Grace made showing her children Caroline, Albert and Stephanie.
Princess Grace was renowned for her style. Tragically, that was cut short in 1982 when she died from injuries sustained in a car accident.
After her death, her grieving husband treasured every object that belonged to Grace.
“After she died Prince Rainer treated objects that she touched, forks she ate with, as if they were religious relics. He wouldn’t let anyone else look at them,” Seminikhin said. “But Prince Albert thought it was important to show his mother in a personal light, and was always interested in showing these items off.”
This exhibition will run in Moscow until December 3rd.
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