Grace by Robert Lacey

Grace by Robert Lacey is a 463-page hardcover published in 1994 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York.  The dust jacket and cover are in very good condition. Book Summary Long before she became a princess, Grace Kelly was a legend, a fabled movie star whose aloof and aristocratic bearing belied a deep sensuality within.  Grace the icon and Grace the woman were two very different creatures, and now celebrated biographer Robert Lacey has managed to unearth the secrets beneath her serene surface.  In Grace, he presents the first balanced portrait of a complex, deeply conflicted actress, wife, and mother who dared to make her dreams come true.  By the time Grace met her prince, she had flirted repeatedly with the altar, only to have her parents veto her choices.  Rainier, however, won over Grace and her family in a whirlwind courtship, cemented by a secret correspondence.  Lacey writers of Grace's joy at her wedding and her gradual disenchantment with her cloistered palace life.  He reveals that