How Grace Kelly's boyfriend discovered that she was cheating with a rich playboy

A recognizable emerald bracelet gave it.


Grace Kelly's The most famous relationship was undoubtedly the one she shared with the husband Prince Rainier III . After all, marriage transformed it from Grace Kelly , the actor, to the Princess Grace of Monaco. But, a new book is much closer to the Rear window Star's romantic life, which was dramatic and varied, even before it became a movie star. In Hitchcock blondes ,, Laurence Leamer Written about the time when Kelly's actor teacher discovered via a revealing jewel that he was not the only man she saw at the time. Read the rest to find out why a bracelet gave it and which had given it to Kelly.

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Kelly started to go out with one of her teachers when she was still a student.

Grace Kelly in 1947
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Hitchcock blondes explore the life of eight actors who worked with the director Alfred Hitchcock . In the Extract from the section on Kelly published by People , the author Leamer explains that she came out with a teacher named Don Richardson After leaving his hometown of Philadelphia in New York to frequent the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Richardson would have been 30 years old at the time; While Kelly attended school at the end of her adolescence. The professor then succeeded as a television director, displaying episodes of successful shows, especially Become intelligent And Lost in space . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

According to Leamer, Richardson met Kelly's parents during their relationship, but they did not approve because he was Jewish and still legally married to his wife. However, Kelly continued to see him.

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Richardson understood that Kelly saw other men.

Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan in London in 1949
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Leamer's book says Kelly saw other men in addition to Richardson, especially Claudius Charles Phillippe , who was the director of banquet of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, and "Millionaire Playboy", diplomat and third husband of Rita Hayworth ,, Aly Khan .

"One evening, Grace invited Richardson to the apartment Kellys rented for their daughter. As always, they made love," writes Leamer. "Subsequently, she pirouet in front of him in a magnificent dress after another. He did not know where she had acquired such outfits. Then, she paraded in front of him, with the exception of a bracelet of Now loaded with emeralds. "

The bracelet stood out in Richardson. "He remembered that he had already seen him on a woman who had slept with Aly Khan", writes Leamer, adding that Khan "was famous for his generosity as much as for his sexual prowess" and gave jewelry like " appreciation tokens ".

"With so many lovers, it was logical that, as often as not, he passed out the same gift," Hitchcock blondes Read.

Kelly was not embarrassed by the rupture.

Grace Kelly modeling in portrait session in 1949
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Leamer says that Richardson snatched the Kelly bracelet, threw him into an aquarium and stormed.

"Does the bracelet have something to do with that?" Asked Kelly, according to the book. "It has everything to do with that," said Richardson. The author writes that Richardson watched Kelly when I left. "Maybe Grace was crying or twisted his hands in despair. But it was nothing like it. Always naked, she stood in the water to fish the bracelet," he said.

But while Richardson was upset, Leamer notes that it was not really fair, because he also saw other people when they were together.

Richardson criticized Kelly later.

Grace Kelly modeling circa 1950s
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In 2012, the Daily Express reported that Richardson, who died in 1996, Once said of Kelly "She lowered everyone with whom she came into contact who was able to do something good for her." (This article notes that when they started their relationship, Richardson was 27 years old and Kelly was 18 years old.) Richardson added: "I had known several other girls who had the same bracelet. When Aly Khan had a rendering -You with a girl he used to give him a cigarette box with an emerald. When he [slept with her], he gave her the bracelet. "

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Kelly's life has taken major tricks from there.

Rainier III and Grace Kelly in Ireland in 1965
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When she separated from Richardson, Kelly was not yet the famous actor she would become and was even further from becoming a Monegasque royalty. In 1949, she graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Soon, she began to appear in television shows and in pieces, and in 1951, she was in her first film, Fourteen hours . From there, his career has taken off. She won the Academy Prize for best actress in 1955 for The campaign girl , and made three acclaimed films with Hitchcock: Dial m for murder (1954), Rear window (1954), and To catch a thief (1955).

The star retired to act in 1956 She married Prince Rainier III And became a princess of Monaco. Kelly's latest film was 1956 High society . The Royals welcomed three children together and remained married until his death in 1982.

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