The Girl in White Gloves is richly imagined and full of historical detail. Maher turns her extensive research into a compulsively readable portrait of a woman hungry to find her place in the world. The Girl in White Gloves goes back and forth between Kelley's struggle to make a life for herself, first in the theater and Hollywood and then in a palace in Monaco. The threat was that she could lose them all. Each step required that she risk her art, her family and her marriage.
Social expectations came with more twists and turns than Monaco's infamous winding roads and Grace was forced to find her own way. She was starved for affection and purpose.
Her fans and loyal subjects couldn't grasp the harsh reality that the most envied woman in the world was not happy. She traded Hollywood for a script-worthy crown and the loneliness of being a princess in a fairy tale kingdom. This was where the lines between fact and fairytale began to blur. Still, she was determined to have it all. Unfortunately, her family, and most importantly, her father, didn't approve of her ambition to be a Broadway star. Like any great piece of historical fiction, this was the perfect set up for a very simple story: The unappreciated girl from Philadelphia sacrifices everything close to her just to defy her family.Īs a young girl, Kelly spent her time chasing after dreams and the approval of those she cared about.
She had it all materialistically but, sadly, she was not happy and she was willing to leave it all behind to marry and live in a world of royalty. Growing up in a rich neighborhood, Grace Kelley had a lot of expectations from her family and the Hollywood screen crowd.
It was more like Megan Markle's, the duchess of Sussex, 2019 reality show. According to Kerri Maher's new novel, The Girl in White Gloves, Grace Kelly's life was anything but princess-like. Growing up in the 1950s, she was the princess all little girls wanted to be. Grace Kelly was the world's Cinderella story.
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