Grace Kelly’s Incredible Life from Old Hollywood Star to Princess

After their first meeting in Monaco, Grace and Prince Rainier began exchanging letters. Their relationship developed quietly through private correspondence, allowing them to learn about each other away from the photographers who had originally brought them together.

The long-distance courtship was very different from Grace’s highly public Hollywood romances. Rainier remained in Monaco while Grace continued working in America, yet the letters gradually turned a brief encounter into something much more serious. By the end of 1955, the prince was prepared to cross the Atlantic and meet the Kelly family himself, forcing Grace to make an important choice about another man already in her life.