In her journey to uncover her mother's past Nyna relives a story as classic, familiar, dark and dangerous as any fairy tale. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up – the mother who told her she was too ill to go to school and kept her isolated at home? Nyna is currently working on the film adaptation of her book. She is the co-author of the mother-daughter memoir, The Bridesmaid's Daughter published by St. Nyna had seen the photos of her mother at Grace's wedding, wearing the bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. NYNA GILES is the youngest daughter of Carolyn Scott Reybold, a Ford model best known as one of Grace Kelly's bridesmaids. She knew Carolyn had been a model – arriving in New York in 1947, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly, and that the two had become fast friends. The truth was, she barely knew who her mother had been before marriage. Nyna was stunned her family's private ordeal was front page news. Nyna Giles, twenty-nine, was in the queue at the supermarket when she looked down and saw the headline: 'Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter'. 'The heart-rending story of two beautiful and glamorous women, and the spirals of disaster into which one of their lives tumbled.' Robert Lacey, author of Grace and The CrownĪ powerful memoir of friendship and marriage, childhood and motherhood.
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