Annette Anderson

Contributor

Annette Anderson is the president of the MonacoUSA Association and a key figure behind the iconic Stars’N’Bars, now transformed into the Marius restaurant. A Forbes contributor and writer for The Monegasque, she’s known for her vibrant leadership, advocacy for inclusivity, and fostering U.S.-Monaco relations, notably through events honoring Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly’s legacy.

Music

A Different Tune

I WAS THOROUGHLY ENJOYING the Christmas Gala hosted by The Monegasque™ magazine when the evening’s emcee, resplendent and camp in top hat and tails, launched into that old chestnut My...

By Annette Anderson

Inner Circles

The Other Kelly Girl

KELLY POWERS - née Helen Jeanne Kelly - was the flame-haired, forever flirty and famously funny half of the “Kelly Girls”. The other half was Grace Patricia Kelly....

By Annette Anderson

Talk Of The Rock

A Stitch In Time

ACTRESS GRACE KELLY was not the first Yankee to become a princess of Monaco after marrying Prince Rainier in 1956. The heiress Alice Heine, born in Louisiana, had already married the...

By Annette Anderson

CINEMA & THEATRE

The Last Picture Show

CRIED AT THE END of Grace Kelly’s final film. Though it was not, as you might expect, at the close of some Hitchcock thriller or a sweeping John Ford epic. It was, in fact, a short li...

By Annette Anderson

MONACO

Ted’s Not So Excellent Adventure

ANYONE WAKING UP near Monaco's Carré d'Or in the early hours of December 3, 1999, will remember an eerie glow in the black sky as fire consumed the beautiful copper-plated dome of the...

By Annette Anderson

PERSON OF INTEREST

Grace The Musical

BEFORE HER DEATH more than a decade ago, “Kelly” Van Remoortel was well-known in Monaco as the wickedly-droll owner of Le Texan, the restaurant she founded not long after the loss of her long-time “be...

By Annette Anderson

Talk Of The Rock

Will The Funkiest Prince Please Stand Up

AT FIVE FEET, female and 110 pounds, I was an unlikely “bouncer” for a popular Monaco nightspot but, then again, it was Stars’N’Bars. Having opened the Principality’s first “all-sports bar” and live m...

By Annette Anderson