Annette Anderson

Contributor

Annette Anderson is the president of the MonacoUSA Association and a key figure behind the iconic Stars’N’Bars, now transformed into the Marius restaurant. A contributor for The Monegasque™, she’s known for her vibrant leadership, advocacy for inclusivity, and fostering U.S.-Monaco relations, notably through events honoring Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly’s legacy.

Talk Of The Rock

Cue Princess

IN APRIL 1956, the American actress Grace Kelly married the prince of a faraway country in a fairy-tale wedding - not just once but twice. It’s public knowledge that Grace wed Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a traditional civil ceremony on one day and then in an epic, highly-publici...

By Annette Anderson

Talk Of The Rock

A Yacht By Any Other Name

For nearly a century, the Deo Juvante has sailed through oceans and eras, glamour and romance, and adventure and survival. Nine owners charted the iconic yacht in fresh waters, but her identity remains unsinkable. A WEEK BEFORE her wedding in 1956, Grace Kelly arrived in Mediterran...

By Annette Anderson

Music

A Different Tune

I WAS THOROUGHLY ENJOYING the Christmas Gala hosted by The Monegasque™ magazine when the evening’s emcee, resplendent and camp in top hat and tails, launched into that old chestnut My Way. To be fair, the iconic song made famous by Frank Sinatra is the No. 1 tune requested...

By Annette Anderson

Inner Circles

The Other Kelly Girl

KELLY POWERS - née Helen Jeanne Kelly - was the flame-haired, forever flirty and famously funny half of the “Kelly Girls”. The other half was Grace Patricia Kelly. Not sisters, not cousins, not even remotely related by blood, the two women were like chalk a...

By Annette Anderson

Talk Of The Rock

A Stitch In Time

ACTRESS GRACE KELLY was not the first Yankee to become a princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier in 1956. The heiress Alice Heine, born in Louisiana, had already married the Explorer Prince Albert I nearly 60 years earlier. Both women played important roles in boosting Mona...

By Annette Anderson

CINEMA & THEATRE

The Last Picture Show

CRIED AT THE END of Grace Kelly’s final film. Though it was not, as you might expect, at the close of some Hitchcock thriller or a sweeping John Ford epic. It was, in fact, a short light comedy that Princess Grace starred in and produced herself, not long before her death in 1982. T...

By Annette Anderson

MONACO

Ted’s Not So Excellent Adventure

ANYONE WAKING UP near Monaco's Carré d'Or in the early hours of December 3, 1999, will remember an eerie glow in the black sky as fire consumed the beautiful copper-plated dome of the historic La Belle Epoque residence on Avenue d’Ostende. At 6 a.m., I was on my way to work at the S...

By Annette Anderson

PERSON OF INTEREST

Grace The Musical

BEFORE HER DEATH more than a decade ago, “Kelly” Van Remoortel was well-known in Monaco as the wickedly-droll owner of Le Texan, the restaurant she founded not long after the loss of her long-time “bestie,” Princess Grace, in 1982. She and the princess had met in New York when Grace Kelly was an asp...

By Annette Anderson

Talk Of The Rock

Will The Funkiest Prince Please Stand Up

AT FIVE FEET, female and 110 pounds, I was an unlikely “bouncer” for a popular Monaco nightspot but, then again, it was Stars’N’Bars. Having opened the Principality’s first “all-sports bar” and live music venue only nine months before, Stars’N’Bars co-founders Kate Powers and Didier Rubiolo and I we...

By Annette Anderson