New documentary shows how Grace Kelly never forgot her Irish links 

Grace Kelly – Banphríonsa Mhaigh Eo on TG4 over Christmas includes an interview with her son, Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Grace Kelly – Banphríonsa Mhaigh Eo airs on TG4 on CHristmas Day. 

In May 1961, Princess Grace Kelly and her husband, Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, were invited to the White House for a luncheon with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie. All eyes were on the princess. She wore a lush green wool ensemble, lined in matching silk, designed by the French couturier Hubert de Givenchy. The princess wore the Givenchy ensemble again the following month when she visited Ireland, being greeted on the tarmac at Dublin airport by Taoiseach Seán Lemass and his lieutenant, Frank Aiken.

“The more I looked into her life, the more I realised how Irish she was, and how deep her connections with Ireland were and so celebrated by her and her family,” says Brian Reddin, director of Grace Kelly – Banphríonsa Mhaigh Eo, broadcast on TG4 on Christmas Day.