The Deadly Rock: The Final Secrets of Princess Grace of Monaco's Tragic Accident
data-modal-image-caption=What happened near La Turbie on September 13, 1982? Grace Kelly used to drive this road, where she played a scene driving a Sunbeam Alpine MK1 in the 1955 film To Catch a Thief. data-modal-image-credit=ChristopheL Collection via AFP> 
Every day, Le Figaro recounts the fatal car accident of a celebrity. Today, the story of the Monegasque sovereign whose Rover 3500 plunged into the void between La Turbie and Monte Carlo on September 13, 1982.
Around here, they call it "the Ranch." At an altitude of 760 meters, on the heights of Cap-d'Ail, a twenty-minute drive from the Principality of Monaco , just beyond La Turbie, Rocagel is a 56-hectare property in the heart of nature. A place that Prince Rainier and Princess Grace acquired in 1957, a year after their CinemaScope wedding, filmed in Technicolor by MGM cameras.
On the mountainside, the Monegasque sovereigns' private refuge is a paradise they designed themselves from scratch. Neither officials nor paparazzi enter here. Leaning against a barrier, Rainier and Grace pose one day. The peaceful image is one of their youngest daughter, Stéphanie's , favorites. The sovereigns are not performing, no ceremonial attire, no tiaras, no Dior dresses. Rainier and Grace respectively wore cowboy-style denim shirts. Wide open on the chest for the prince, who, tanned and relaxed, still looks good, with a mustache...
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