Grace Kelly tried to remove Carolina from Philippe Junot, a Parisian banker of intense nightlife who disturbed the royal family. The hidden side of the princess as a protective mother.
Before the stories of royalty they take holders on social networks and reality shows, Carolina de Monaco lived a romance that revealed her mother, Grace Kelly. The young princess, just 20 years old, had fallen in love in the 70s of Philippe Junot, a 36th Parisian banker with a reputation as a womanizer and a social record that did not convince the Principality.
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The Kelly-Grimaldi soon turned on the alarms. Junot, I used to Manhattan and Paris’s nightclubs, seemed more comfortable in the bohemian than in a palace. Faced with that concern, Grace Kelly He took action on the matter: first sent his daughter to a cultural tour of Ecuador, and then put together an even farther trip, nothing less than the Galapagos Islandshoping to stop romance.


The play, however, went halfway. Junot showed that the distance did not intimidate him and traveled more than 9,000 kilometers to the archipelago to reunite with Carolina. The romantic gesture fed history in the international press and reinforced the couple’s link, despite the family opposition.
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Grace Kelly, next to Carolina de Mónica, walking on the beach in “swimsuit”.
Carolina de Monaco’s first marriage
Princess Carolina met Philippe Junot In Régine’s, a New York club that congregated celebrities and aristocrats. From that first encounter, the French banker did not take off from her: It was seen in the real box in tennis tournamentsvisited the palace and accompanied the young woman in public events, an unusual privilege for someone outside the Grimaldi family.
June 29, 1978, Carolina He married Junot at a wedding that paralyzed Monaco. The outdoor ceremony in the Prince Palace He evoked the lavishness of his parents in 1956, when Grace Kelly had left Hollywood to become a princess. But the charm lasted little: two years later, in 1980, the marriage dissolved.
Carolina Refízo his life with Stefano Casiraghiwith whom he had three children before he died in a boat accident in 1990. Later, in 1999, He married Prince Ernesto Augusto de Hanóvereven more consolidating its ties with European royalty.
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Like the postcard with her mother, also on the beach, Carolina walks next to one of her children.
Grace Kelly’s tragic death
Grace Kelly’s life, who had tried to protect his daughter from an uncertain love destination, ended her life abruptly in September 1982. A car accident on a mountain route in Monaco cost his life at 52leaving a huge vacuum in the family and in the collective memory. Carolina was traveling with her that day, and although she survived, she never forgot the impact of losing her mother in such painful circumstances.
The story of that trip to Galapagos reflects not only the tension between youth love and real obligations, but also the attempt of a mother “Before movie star, then princess,” to protect her daughter. ” An intimate pulse that, despite the efforts, was recorded as part of the human portrait of the Grimaldi family.
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