Grace and Diana

With the death of Anna Nicole Smith recently and the immediate comparisons to the tragic life of Marilyn Monroe are running rampant. One of the very striking things I found both bizzare and sad was what I learned about Marilyn Monroe while researching, Two Princesses.

The key interview I did on Grace was that of her best friend Judith Balaban Quine. In her book, The Bridesmaids, Judith tells of her friendship with Marilyn Monroe and how troubled she was. Married to Grace's agent Jay Kanter, Judith wrote of Marilyn not even being able to hold Judith and Jay's first child. While Grace's maternal insticts were impecable, Marilyn Monroe's anxiety and phobia made me feel so sad for something so extraordinary. Whatever happen to Norma Jean while she was a child, must have been absolutely tramatic. And as everyone knows this was just another astonishing sadness in the beautiful but so vulnerable star whose death will never be completely solved. However, I remember vividly walking with my day camp peers as the story of Marilyn's death bounced around our conversations. I was around ten years old.

Fast foward over forty years later to the tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith. With all the twists and turns zig zagging from her soap opera life, it is safe to say she will also become just as if not more notorious in death than she was in life in the weeks and months to come.

With mystery and tragedy selling like leamonaide during a summer heat wave, the stories of not only the two blonde bombshells and the, two princesses brings immortality to all four. But in the achives of history to be written, the two girls from Philadelphia and London left much more to our world than mere legend. Their legacies of service to mankind will never be forgotten. 

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