"I am very happy to have saved my old family home from certain death. We are still pondering what we are going to do with it. We may think of hosting exhibitions, and maybe use some parts as offices for our foundation, "said Prince Albert II of Monaco on October 21th to People Magazine.  It is again to this American tabloid that the sovereign Monegasque entrusted in this beginning of year 2017 with respect to the becoming of his mother Princess Grace Kelly's childhood home in Philadelphia, which he purchase last year on September 28th 2016.

The three-storey colonial-style brick mansion, built in 1935 by John B. Kelly, the father to Princess Grace Kelly, will house the regional offices of the Princess Grace Foundation and an American extension of the Princess Grace Irish Library  (Princess Grace Irish Library) in Monaco once its renovation is complete, they will also be open to visitors. "There will be various public events, it will not be only a museum," announced to "People" the sovereign Prince of the Principality of Monaco. And to specify among these future appointments: "We will organize an exchange program with the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco".


"Discussions concerning this program, the first extension abroad of the library, are already underway with the University of Villanova. As part of its current activities, the Irish Library (founded in 1984 as a tribute to Grace's love of literature) sponsors lectures and readings by contemporary authors, concerts and children's activities, ".

Regarding the date of the opening of the house to the public, Prince Albert II of Monaco said: "To give us enough time, I would say a year, but that could be less than that. To give you an answer, 2018, or maybe earlier. " So to follow ...