Some time ago, on the anniversary of Grace Kelly's death, an amiable-sounding clergyman called Monsignore Piero Pintus suggested that she ought to be made into a saint. 'She was an excellent actress who was 'never involved in any scandal. She gave up a lucrative career to become a wife, a mother and a sovereign'.

Some sacrifice, it was generally agreed. Monsignore Pintus spoke for us all. Instead of the usual, slightly uninspiring plaster statues still to be found in some Catholic churches, I began to look forward to the day when one could dart into the Oratory to light a candle to Princess Grace.

Literary Review

Dec 1983

Categories

A N Wilson

Freedom of the Press?

A Biographer In Love

Second Stout Volume

His Best Book Yet, But Written For Americans

Genius in Either Role

There Once Was a Man from San Remo

True Story of How He Finally Captured Her

His Country’s Saviour

Gray’s Elegy

He Dared to Tell Them their History, Now Forgotten

Enemy of Promise

Bogey Fogey

A Great Writer Revealed