Princess Caroline and Charlotte Casiraghi Discuss Similarities with Grace Kelly
With a lineage of strong women, the royal family of Monaco has a legacy that marks history. Among the names that stand out is Grace Kelly, who after a powerful career in Hollywood—she starred in Alfred Hitchcock films like Rear Window and Dial M to Kill—became a very own princess, and was known for her grace and refinement. It is no wonder that her daughter and granddaughter, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Charlotte Casiraghi, respectively, have endless stories to share about her to this day.
“Although I haven't met her, I see a lot of your mother's things in you. The relationship between mother and daughter is a complex thing, the mother occupies an all-powerful place, even when she is loving and caring,” Casiraghi recently revealed in an interview about the similarities between her mother and Kelly to Madame Figaro. "When I see my grandmother's films, I see her grace, her demand, her discipline and also her mystery."
However, Princess Caroline of Monaco had a different impression: “But I don't look like her," she said. "Physically I look like my paternal grandmother. She was a very free and original woman. She was a nurse during the war, then director [of a rehabilitation center for ex-convicts]."
When the subject turned to feminism, the contrast became even greater: "I belong to a generation in which the issue was alive. However, I remember my mother saying to me in good faith: 'You don't have to go to school,'" Caroline revealed. She went on to recount a university professor who told her "with incredible cruelty: 'You are taking the place of a deserving student.'"
"But I always wanted to face obstacles," she said. "I always felt like I was in competition with the boys, I wanted to do better than them, at school or in sports."
