It was a story worthy of any script floating around Hollywood when the blonde, blue-eyed, all-American girl next door went on to become the silver screen’s biggest star before abandoning it all to be whisked away to a far-off land and live happily ever after. But that’s where any resemblance between Grace Kelly’s life and a romantic fairytale ends. In the years following her 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Kelly would suffer from loneliness and frustration as she struggled to be accepted by the people of her husband’s principality. “The idea of my life as a fairytale is a fairytale itself,” she once confessed.
There is, however, one tale from her life that reads as if straight out of a storybook, albeit more of a tale of horror from the Brothers Grimm than our modern adaptations of . During its 700-year reign, the Grimaldi family has suffered from short-lived marriages and untimely deaths. Legend has it that in the 13th century the
