Description: For more than 700 years, the Grimaldis have ruled the tiny principality of Monaco. Perched like a glittering jewel on the lush Cote d'Azur between France and Italy, Monaco has long been the playground of the world's rich and beautiful. When Hollywood star Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier in the 1950s, she made Monaco and irs royal family icons of style and fashion. But with her tragic death in a car accident in 1982, the myth began to crumble. John Glatt offers an intimate look at the world's most glamorous royal family, including:
-- New details about Princess Grace's death from a nurse at the hospital where she died and the best friend she spoke to the night before the accident
-- The never-before-told story of Grace Kelly's secret abortion before she married Prince Rainier
-- An in-depth interview with Prince Albert in which he talks candidly about his love life and the false rumors of homosexuality that haunt him
-- A portrait of Monaco as a police state in which everyone is under constant surveillance. The first interview ever given by the former head of the Monaco secret police
-- The scandalous story behind Princess Stephanie's marriage and messy divorce from bodyguard David Ducruet

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