The Bridesmaids: Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, and Six Intimate Friends

A rivetingly open and honest biography of Princess Grace Kelly and six of her best friends, as related by one of those friends and confidant, Judith Balaban Quine. This is the tell-all story of Grace Kelly, and the story of those six friends who would be her bridesmaids on her weding day in 1956 to Prince Rainier of Monaco. It is also the story of the glittering glamour years of Hollywood, the legendary sophisticated era of Broadway in New York, and the fantasy of exotic Monaco. And it's an intriguing portrayal of the women who lived, loved and worked in that time. Ms. Quine's book is illustrated with 87 marvelous photographs from private collections and public archives, and peppered with startling memoirs of movie stars, the rich, and famous, to numerous too mention here. This is "the" definitive work on Grace Kelly, her life and her era.