Grace Kelly's men

Grace Kelly’s men is a biography of Grace Kelly by Jane Ellen Wayne, first published in 1991, with Random House Value Publishing as publisher. Open Library files it under the subject “Relations with men,” alongside “Biography,” “Princesses” and “Motion picture actors and actresses.” The title and that heading point to readers who want Kelly’s relations with men as the subject of a book.

The catalog listing names 15 other books about Kelly, and Wayne’s is the only title among them that refers to her men. Jeffrey Robinson’s Rainier & Grace (1989) is the one other title that sets a man’s name beside hers. Like 14 of those 15 books, Wayne’s is classed as a biography. The listing classes James Spada’s Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess (1987) as a memoir.

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The library record

The Open Library record gives 1991 as the first publication date and April 5, 1993, as the date of an edition from Random House Value Publishing. Its subject headings name “Grace, princess of monaco, 1929-1982” and add “Motion picture actors and actresses, united states.” Those headings place Kelly among both princesses and film actors.

Beside the other Kelly books

By date, eight of the listed books came before Wayne’s, beginning with Marjorie P. K. Weiser’s Grace Kelly (1970). The two closest before it are Robinson’s book and Judy Quine’s The bridesmaids, both from 1989. Seven came after it, starting with Howell Conant’s Grace and Elizabeth Gillen Surcouf’s Grace Kelly, American princess in 1992, then Robert Lacey’s Grace in 1994. The latest are Donald Spoto’s High society (2009) and Jennifer O’Callaghan’s Rear Window (2025).

Six of the other titles or subtitles use the word princess, among them Gwen Robyns’s Princess Grace (1976) and Wendy Leigh’s True Grace: The Life and Times of an American Princess (2007). Wayne’s title uses Kelly’s own name without it. The bibliography of Wikipedia’s article on Kelly lists the books by Lacey, Leigh and Spoto and does not list Wayne’s.