Grace Kelly: Father 'furious' with Rainier demand says expert

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The legendary Grace Kelly is back on screens this afternoon when her 1952 western High Noon airs from 4.15pm on Film4. The Academy Award winner stars opposite Gary Cooper, who himself claimed an Oscar for his turn in the classic flick. It follows the story of marshal Will Kane, whose wedding festivities are halted when it emerges his nemesis is riding into town in a bid for revenge.

High Noon would become so well-loved that even US Presidents proudly screen the picture while in the White House, including the likes of Dwight Eisenhower and Bill Clinton.

Clinton was so enthralled by the film, that he reportedly hosted 17 screenings of it in Washington, once adding: “It’s no accident that politicians see themselves as Gary Cooper in High Noon.

“Not just politicians, but anyone who’s forced to go against the popular will.

“Any time you’re alone and you feel you’re not getting the support you need, Cooper’s Will Kane becomes the perfect metaphor.”

When released Kelly was one of the world’s most recognisable and sought-after film stars, though she would eventually give up her career in Hollywood to become a different kind of royalty.

Aged just 26, Kelly, who won an Oscar for 1954’s The Country Girl, quit the silver screen to marry Prince Rainer of Monaco in 1956.

And according to Jay Jorgensen, co-author of 2017’s Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl, her life was dramatically transformed immediately after joining the Monaco royal family.

He told Closer Weekly last year: “She enjoyed being around creative people, and creating things herself.

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“In that respect, I think [leaving Hollywood] was hard on her.

“She had to give up certain things, like her career, to get certain things.”

Jorgensen added that soon after joining the family Kelly “knew it was her duty to produce heirs to the throne”.

Kelly would give birth to three children, Princess Caroline, Prince Albert and Princess Stephanie, and their son would take on the throne in 2005.

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Decades before his succession, Kelly sadly passed away in a car crash, leaving a heartbroken family and nation to mourn.

Albert reflected on his mother in 2012, some 30 years after Kelly’s passing, when he talked to Piers Morgan about her role in his life.

He told Morgan: “I still think of her every day, and I hope that she would be proud of me and what I’ve tried to achieve in the last 30 years.”

When asked how he would describe Grace from his memory, he replied: “She was the most warm, gracious, engaging person.

“Of course, she was very close to all of us. She was an incredible mother. She was an incredibly generous person in heart and spite.

“She touched the lives of so many people in so many different ways all over the world.”

After Prince Rainier III died, he was buried next to Kelly, at the Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate, the traditional spot for royalty to be buried in Monaco.

Symbolically, it was also where the couple wed decades before.

The union between the pair became a worldwide sensation, with some outlets describing it as the “wedding of the century” and the “world’s most anticipated wedding”.

High Noon airs today from 4.15pm on Film4.

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