Police baffled by shooting of Hélène Pastor, wealthy landowner in the tax haven, whose chauffeur was also killed in the attack A wealthy Monaco heiress shot two weeks ago in a mysterious attack on the French Riviera has died of her injuries in hospital. Hélène Pastor, 77, said to be close to Monaco's royal family, and nicknamed the "vice princess", had been visiting her son...
Naomi Watts set the bar high with last year's Princess-Di disaster. But Nicole Kidman has outdone her: this Grace Kelly film, which kicks off Cannes 2014, is a breathtaking catastrophe Why the Grace Kelly biopic isn't fit for a fashion princess Five other dreadful films that premiered at the festival It's traditional for Cannes to start with something spectacular. This is certainly no exception. It...
The opening night of the Cannes film festival has unfolded, with jury members including Jane Campion and Willem Dafoe trooping to the cinema to see Grace of Monaco. The film - which stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly - is not in competition, and has been greeted with almost universally hostile reviews Continue reading... ...
Kelly's life was one of glamour, privilege and ultimately tragedy. Now, as Grace of Monaco, the biopic starring Nicole Kidman, opens the Cannes film festival, fresh controversy has stirred A blind date, you could call it, if a rather high-flown one. She was Grace Kelly, Oscar-winning Hollywood star, in Cannes to join the US delegation at the film festival of 1955, and he was Prince Rainier III, of...
When Caroline, Princess of Hanover, gave Jean-Christophe Maillot a free hand and ample funding to run a fledgling ballet company he couldn't believe his luck. His personal drive has made it an exceptional home for dancers "It sounds like a stupid fairytale. It's unreal, the situation I have here." When I meet the artistic director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo , one thing is very clear. Jean-Christophe...
Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight in the last seven days End of the world ...
Kate Middleton has impressed the public on her first foreign tour, but in Monaco Princess Charlene's 'fairytale' marriage has got off to a tricky start Any hopes that "princess mania" might die down have now been dashed by Kate's first royal trip to Canada. If anything, England's new princess looks set to attract ever more attention as the tour moves to California. But this week, as images...
Prince Albert keen on bringing greater financial compliance and transparency to millionaire's playground As this tiny kingdom population 35,000, of which only 7,000 are Monegasque attempts to kick-start the dream machine with its royal wedding , the principality's real asset, private banking, is in crisis. Outwardly nothing has changed: the diamond-clad women, the Rolls Royces and Maseratis in front...
Welsh singer recovering after suffering from 'severe dehydration' The singer Tom Jones was recovering in hospital on Sunday after being forced to pull out of a concert in Monaco. The 71-year-old had been due to perform on Saturday night at the Salle des Etoiles, as part of Monte Carlo's Sporting Summer Festival, but withdrew, suffering "severe dehydration". He was reported to be in a stable...
s ongoing row with Harvey Weinstein • Harvey Weinstein cancels release of Nicole Kidman's Grace Kelly biopic The Cannes film festival has announced that Grace of Monaco will be the opening film for its 2014 edition. As a biopic of the intensely glamorous princess of the nearby principality who was also a legendary movie star, the film has obvious appeal to the Cannes organisers; it also stars Cannes...
The Monaco Yacht Show is the most prestigious luxury boat show in the world, showing hundreds of yachts for the super-rich ...
s assertion that the rising tide of economic fortune used to lift all boats, but now only seems to lift yachts, would certainly seem to be borne out by the Monaco Yacht Show. The show, which has just begun, boasts Europe's largest collection of superyachts. At the show the Labour leader would find that demand is once again surging for the ultimate billionaire's plaything, ranging from an entry-level...
s victorious revolution in Cuba, the assassination of President Kennedy, the subsequent shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the murder of Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy's Chappaquiddick misadventure. He also covered US affairs from his New York base on behalf of Press Gazette for more than 40 years, as it notes in its excellent tribute (almost all of which follows). Blyth often found himself at the centre...
s former president deposited more than £127m at a bank in Monaco while his father was in office, it has emerged. Authorities in Monaco said Karim Wade placed the money in accounts at the Julius Baer bank between 2002 and 2013. They are co-operating with Senegalese officials who are prosecuting Wade on charges of illicit enrichment following a months-long investigation into how he amassed a fortune...
t expect fairytales or happy endings in the forthcoming biopics of Princess Diana and Princess Grace of Monaco Why does anyone dream about being a princess? Traditionally, they make the dullest of movie heroines: skipping around being sweet and innocent, falling victim to wicked stepmothers, waiting to be transformed by the magnificent attention of a handsome prince. In a sensible world,...
s an unlikely item. The 1972 up-close-and-personal documentary by motor-racing fan Roman Polanski about Jackie Stewart, and his performance in the Monaco grand prix over one rainy weekend, has been restored for this Cannes film festival, with a new 10-minute coda added in which the present-day Polanski and Stewart sit in the same Monte Carlo hotel suite where Stewart stayed at the time and chew the...
s first years in Monaco as 'pure fiction and pointlessly glamorised' Prince Albert of Monaco and his two sisters have labelled a new biopic starring Nicole Kidman as their mother Grace Kelly "pure fiction". Albert, the current ruling monarch of the Mediterranean principality, issued a joint statement with Princess Caroline and Princess Stephanie denouncing the project, which is titled Grace of Monaco...
s legal costs. Rupert Earle, a lawyer representing the Sunday Times, said the paper offered "its sincere apologies to the claimants for the damage, as well as the distress caused". In a statement read out in court, it also agreed that the paper had falsely alleged that Prince Albert had "turned a blind eye to corrupt activity by his courtiers and had done nothing effective to curb the activities of...
s Panorama will surely enrage the notoriously touchy Barclay boys. Sirs David and Frederick Barclay are media tycoons who like to stay out of the media spotlight. Often described as reclusive, the proprietors of the Telegraph Media Group dislike the term. They prefer to regard themselves as people who merely wish to be private. Semantics aside, the point is that they have a history of complaining whenever...
s former flat in Monaco [where he lived for 17 years] there is no other British tribute to the author, who died in 1993. At the foundation, which opened last year, a vast body of previously unseen work was unveiled that proved how important Burgess was beyond A Clockwork Orange. The foundation is a creative hub in a listed former mill building, with an archive of thousands of Burgess's books, personal...