Portal:Philadelphia/Selected biography/July 2006
Grace, Princess of Monaco was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, as a result of marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco. She was the mother of the principality's current reigning Sovereign Prince, Albert II of Monaco. Princess Grace was required to renounce her American citizenship upon her marriage. Grace Kelly was born in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.