When they arrive at the Cannes Film Festival, all the paparazzi flip their lenses in direction of them. We aren’t speaking about the stars of the silver display however the royals who handle to steal the limelight as quickly as they step onto the well-known pink carpet at the Palais des Festivals. Some of their appearances are legendary. Think of Princess Diana in a splendid sky-blue chiffon robe in 1987, or the legendary assembly between Grace Kelly and Rainier of Monaco, which passed off in May 1955, at his princely palace, when Alfred Hitchcock’s muse was attending the pageant in France. Many outstanding members of Europe’s royal households are regulars at the pageant, although Monaco’s ruling dynasty is the greatest represented: Pierre Casiraghi, his spouse Beatrice Borromeo, and his sisters Charlotte Casiraghi and Alexandra of Hanover all frequently attend the pageant.
Here’s a glance at a few of the most well-known royal household appearances on the Croisette in Cannes over the years.
