THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PRINCESS GRACE OF MONACO AND FRENCH CINEMA DIRECTOR ROBERT HOSSEIN.
Princess Grace, who died in 1982, and the immense actor who has just left us have been very close since the mid-1970s. Here is the genesis of their beautiful story of friendship.
Hollywood could have made a movie of it. That of two great actors of the same generation who later discover a beautiful and great friendship. This is what happened between Princess Grace of Monaco and the talented director, actor, producer, Robert Hossein , who died shortly before the start of the year 2021 . To do this, let's go back in time.
Fan of Peyrac!
1974, Grace of Monaco is 45 years old, a loving husband, three lovely children, a principality to invest in and lots of memories from her life before. The one where she shone as an actress on Hollywood sets. No bitterness however because this life, she knowingly turned her back on him by marrying Prince Rainier . Nevertheless, there are always these films that she would have liked to shoot, these characters that she would have wanted to play. Like that of the sulphurous and magnetic, Angélique Marquise des Anges . A free soul, greedy for life and head over heels in love with her Joffrey, Count de Peyrac. A dark character that Robert Hossein has embodied seven times . And precisely the Monegasque princess adored Peyrac whose romantic and cinematographic adventures she had screened in the palace.
A story of jams
And in this year 1974, when she learns of the drama which has just touched Robert Hossein, she rushes to his bedside. The 47-year-old comedian was the victim of a terrible traffic accident. If he survived, his then-fiancée didn't. Grace de Monaco and Hossein do not know each other. But the princess insists on going to bring her comfort in the hospital, accompanied from time to time by the Princess Caroline and the Prince Albert, his elders. Sometimes even, here it comes with jars of homemade jam! From then on, links are created.
Unwavering. Robert Hossein becomes intimate with the princely couple, is regularly invited to the Principality, shares his artistic tastes with them and is very present when the princess tragically disappears in 1982 in a car accident.
Despite the tragedy, Robert Hossein continues to support and date the Grimaldi family. One day, Prince Albert will even confide to him that his mother, it is true, would have liked, a long time ago, to embody this Angelique who made French cinema dream so much ...
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