When I was young, I was always fascinated by and enamored with Grace Kelly. She was so elegant, eloquent and beautiful inside and out. As you will see, she still is.
Erik: Who’s next?
Me: Oh, okay. You’re eager!
Jamie: He’s our “go to boy.”
Me: I guess so! Well, let me give you a choice here, Sweetie. Grace Kelly, Ray Charles or Michael Landon.
Erik: Mom, don’t you think it’s kinda nice that we do similar people?
Me: Oh, yeah, we can do that. Sure!
Erik: So today, we have to stick to female.
Jamie: And he’s…gone.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: So, I guess he’s getting, um, you mentioned—
Me: Grace Kelly?
Jamie: Who were the other ones?
Me: Well, they were guys, so…
Jamie: Wasn’t she the actress who turned into the princess or something?
Me: Yes! The Princess of Monaco.
Jamie: She can—oh, she’s here.
Me: Okay.
Jamie (to Grace): Is it you? Grace Kelly?
(Pause)
Jamie: Does she have a proper name?
Me: I don’t know! I think that’s her birth name, but don’t hold me to it!
Erik: She says you don’t have to call her by her proper name like “Princess Grace” or anything. That’s what she means.
Me: Okay. Well, what would you like us to call you, Mrs. Kelly?
Princess Grace: I’m fine with that, although I was known as Princess Grace.
Me: Well, I’ll call you that. It seems more respectful! Is it all right if we begin our little interview?
Princess Grace: Yes. That would be lovely.
Jamie: She speaks English.
Me: Oh, yeah.
Jamie: She is English?
Me: Well, she’s American, but if I recall, she has just the tiniest hint of an accent that could make you wonder about whether she was British, yeah.
Jamie: No, I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about American English.
Me: Oh, okay. Well, the first question is this: What was your spiritual mission while you were here on the earthly plane?
(Long pause)
Jamie: Okay, okay. She’s really wordy so I’m just going to have her back up and talk me through.
Me: Okay.
Princess Grace: Are you with me?
Jamie (giggling): Yes, I’m on the same page!
Princess Grace: My spiritual mission in that life was to be a role to many, especially to woman of that era in time. This was important to me, even as a child I knew I was destined for some kind of greatness, and I knew I would never let it go to my head.
Me: Were you here to learn anything?
Princess Grace: Everything! To learn to say yes. A lot of examples that were around me in my life from my family to my career to my love life would have all pointed to no—to react with caution. Many people said I was blessed with luck, that whatever I was around was blessed, but truly it was just the awareness to say yes and not to be afraid—to live life in an awake state and to choose each day to be happy. Maybe this is why so many people found me so adoring or that I was a role model. By any means it was just an awake conscious state.
How ironic that this awake state, this throwing caution to the wind resulted in her death. A preordained exit point? Probably. I bet she accomplished all she set out to do. Let’s continue and find out.
Me: Were you here to teach anything?
Princess Grace: I don’t truly believe that I was placed on Earth for any one magnificent reason though—
(Pause)
Jamie (sheepishly): I got lost again.
I laugh.
Jamie to Mrs. Kelly): Please repeat.
Jamie (to me): She’s a really calm speaker, but then she kind of quickly goes through it. There are not a lot of pauses with her; she knows exactly what she wants to say.
(Pause)
Jamie (giggling): And now I’ve forgotten the question! I’m so sorry.
Me (laughing): What were you here to teach?
Princess Grace: I was here to meet my husband and to teach the story of my life—to be who you desire to be, and only accept what you want. This is what I would like to leave.
Me: Okay.
Princess Grace: The message for others: Only accept into your life what you want. Please do not—
Jamie (to Mrs. Kelly): Oh, that’s so wordy. Can you rephrase it? Do not accept people or things into your life that your feel will get you ahead.
(Long pause)
Jamie (frustrated): Ah, shit. I’m going rogue.
Me: Yeah, just go rogue if you have to.
Jamie (giggling): These are going to be my words of her. I know what she’s saying, and she says it well, but it’s really, really wordy.
Me: Just feel free to paraphrase everything then.
Jamie: I try to do everything word for word, but in her case it’s just too hard. Basically, she’s saying don’t say yes to everything. If you don’t want it, don’t accept it. Don’t accept it because later on it might get you where you think you want to be, you know, even though you don’t want it in that moment. Only allow what you want into your life at that time.
Me: Okay. Do you think you accomplished most of what you came here to do?
Princess Grace: Yes.
Me: Good! Did you gain any insights when you crossed over?
Princess Grace: My insight was—
Jamie (giggling): I swear she’s really a delightful woman, I promise you—
Me: Oh, yeah!
Jamie: But what is it? I’m gonna paraphrase again. She found that a lot of what she lived her life for, you know, for others, and kind of the bigger cause and smiling and enjoying life—she never took enough time just for herself.
Me: I can imagine.
Jamie: Just for her. It was a pleasure for her to be with other people and to include them in her journey, but in the end, when she looked back, she realized that she missed that opportunity.
Me: Yep. I know how she feels. Is there a life you can share that most influenced your one as Princess Grace?
Princess Grace: Oh, dear! Even when I was living, I would have this dream, this repetitive dream. It was—
Jamie (to Mrs. Kelly): Were you a boy?
(Pause)
Jamie: She’s a little boy in the dream, and he is watching his feet as he’s running down a cobblestoned street. His feet, they look like they’re wearing Mary Jane’s.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: So, I don’t know if little boys wore those Mary Jane style shoes.
Me: I think they did in the olden days.
Jamie: He looks like four years old maybe, and it’s the feet he, oops, I mean he hears running and running. Then all he sees is the horse.
Me: Okay. So what happened? Did he get killed by a horse? Trampled by a horse?
Princess Grace: I didn’t die, but yes, I did get run over by a horse. It was the same thought she was having by watching my feet that even though she was so little, she sounded like a horse. Ba dump, ba dump, ba dump. Those little shoes on the cobblestones. I came around a building on a sloping cobblestoned hill, and this horse came by and stepped on me. I was very, very sick for a long time. That one event made me believe, as that little boy, that what I thought would and must come true. I sounded like a horse; I got trampled by one. So I lived a life in fear of my own thoughts, my own little thoughts and how they could come true.
Me: And how did that influence your life as Princess Grace?
Princess Grace: I wanted to have a life where whatever I thought of or dreamed of or set a goal for would come true, and not to be afraid of the power of manifestation.
Jamie: Wow.
Me: Ditto. Erik, so you have any questions for Princess Grace?
Erik: Nope.
Jamie: He thought about it though!
Jamie and I laugh.
Jamie: He’s behaving!
Me: Wonders never cease. There’s always a first time! Well, thank you Princess Grace; we really appreciate it.
Princess Grace: Thank you.
Enjoy two of the six part interview series with Grace Kelly on 20/20 just prior to her death.
