This was Prince Albert of Monaco’s reunion with his mother’s family at Grace Kelly’s house, a colonial mansion the royal bought for $800,000 in 2016.

Prince Albert II of Monaco recently reunited with his mother’s family at the colonial-style mansion he bought in 2016 in Philadelphia, United States.

It was a trip to fulfill a certain program, but also with great significance for the monarch to return to the hometown of his mother, actress Grace Kelly, and to the house where she spent a good part of her childhood.

The summer house made of red brick, the premises of which are distributed over three floors, remains valid and intact after that Albert II of Monaco bought it for about 755 thousand eurosequivalent to approximately US$800,000, and he oversaw its restoration for two years to give it the same touch it had during his mother’s time there.

The prince made this trip after a charity ball he attended with his sister Estefania on the occasion of the centenary of their father, Prince Rainier III, and a few days after his first son Alexandre Grimaldi appeared on the cover of a British magazine.

No member of the Grimaldis accompanied him to Philadelphia; But in this city, he met his mother’s family again, as shown by the photos published on the Instagram account of the Principality of Monaco.

What is Grace Kelly’s mansion in Philadelphia that Albert of Monaco bought?

The property is located in the East Falls neighborhood, as Ok Diario writes, and has been renovated in such a way that it can preserve the style it had when Grace Kelly lived there and spent “her happiest years.”

“I think after talking to some of my relatives about the purchase, we were clear that we didn’t want it to disappear or for the future owners to transform it in any way. “It is a big part of our family’s history,” commented Charlene de Monaco’s husband in an interview quoted by Spanish media.

Then the family and the principality began to study the Kelly family photo album to give a touch of that time and recover the furniture that served as decoration at the time.

According to information collected by Vanity Fair, the house, built in 1928 by Olympic champion John Kelly, Grace’s father and Albert’s grandfather, is spread over two floors and a basement where the Kelly family spent Christmas and announced Grace’s engagement to Rainier III. in 1956.

It has six bedrooms, a private bar, a living room, and in addition to the wardrobe doors preserving the marks that John Kelly recorded about the height of his children as they grew up. It also has a carefully landscaped garden bordering the property.

The summer house would house the Albert de Monaco family when they travel to Philadelphia, along with offices for the Prince Albert II of Monaco Environmental Foundation and the Princess Grace Foundation. (AND)