Grace Kelly’s Mother Confuses Monaco and Morocco in Royal Engagement Slip-Up

Le Point looked back on one of the nice anecdotes of the Cannes Film Festival to which Grace Kelly had been invited in the spring of 1955 after winning the Oscar for Best Actress for "A Country Girl". Not to mention the slip that the actress’s mother had made during the visit of Prince Rainier III of Monaco. The latter had gone to New York to propose to Grace, with a 10.47 carat emerald-cut diamond.

Delighted with this visit, Margaret Katherine Majer gets her wires crossed by announcing that her daughter "is going to marry the Prince of Morocco!". She had just confused Morocco and Monaco. Grace and Rainier were married in the Cathedral of Monaco on April 19, 1956, the day after the civil marriage celebration in the throne room of the palace. The couple had three children: Caroline Louise Marguerite, Albert II, the current sovereign of the principality and Stéphanie Marie-Élisabeth. On September 14, 1982, Grace of Monaco died from injuries sustained in a car accident the day before.