A princess view on 40

Back in the 1950s a beautiful and talented American 27 year-old actress married a European Royal Prince and became Her Highness The Princess of Monaco.

We all know the fairy-tale story of Grace Kelly and how her glamorous life had a tragic ending; but few know that apparently she lived ‘torture’ about 12 years before she died. That is, when she turned 40.

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.

This is what the famous princess apparently said at some point around the time she blew 40 candles on her birthday cake… and that was in 1969 … the year I was born … 40 years ago!

So I bump into this quote at a time when I have been writing my thoughts on turning 40, and when I have even created a website for forty-something women to pour all my energy on this subject into something positive.

But torture, believe me, is not a positive thought.