{"id":3282,"date":"2026-06-11T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:03:00","slug":"wedding-of-the-century-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wedding-of-the-century-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding of the century \u2013 Exhibition from June 18 to September 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-711x1024.jpg 711w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-768x1106.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-1067x1536.jpg 1067w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-1422x2048.jpg 1422w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Affiche_expo_mariage56_GB_HD-scaled.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the junction of European monarchical tradition and American-style publicity, the \u201cwedding of the century\u201d\u2014to borrow the phrase used in *Le Figaro* as early as 4 April 1956 by journalist Pierre Macaigne\u2014undoubtedly left a lasting impression and shaped Monaco\u2019s contemporary history. Through photographs, moving images, audio recordings, jewellery, dresses, gifts, and previously unseen archives, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey to discover the key figures, locations, highlights, and behind-the-scenes moments of a week of festivities\u2014organised in just three months\u2014from the spectacular welcome of Grace Kelly on the morning of 12 April to the royal couple\u2019s departure on their honeymoon on the evening of the 19th. While the wedding ceremonies of Prince Rainier III and Grace Kelly do not appear in Roland Barthes\u2019 (1915\u20131980) *Mythologies of Contemporary News*, they could very well have been the subject of a study by the semiotician in the book he published in 1957, given the major impact the Monegasque event had, thanks to its exceptional media coverage for the time, a wide variety of souvenirs, and the abundance of different accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Concept and Production<br \/>\nPalace Archives and Audiovisual Institute of Monaco<\/p>\n<p>Curators<br \/>\nThomas Fouilleron, Vincent Vatrican<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"\u00abMarriage of the Century\u00bb exhibition\u00bb\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mlI9PLs669U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the intersection of European monarchical tradition and American-style publicity, the \u201cwedding of the century\u201d\u2014to borrow the phrase used in *Le Figaro* as early as April 4, 1956, by journalist Pierre Macaigne\u2014undoubtedly left a lasting impression and shaped Monaco\u2019s contemporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palais-de-monaco","category-visit-princes-palace-of-monaco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitepalaisdemonaco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}