![]() ![]() The infant was baptized Grace Patricia, in memory of an aunt who had died young, and (so Grace Kelly believed) “because I was Tuesday’s child”-who, according to Mother Goose, was “full of grace.” Bridget’s Roman Catholic Church, a three-minute, half-mile drive from their home in the upscale neighborhood of Philadelphia known as East Falls. On December 1, the Kellys took the baby to St. Kelly escorted his wife, Margaret Majer Kelly, to Hahnemann, where, after an unexceptional labor, she bore her third child and second daughter. Although Hahnemann accepted emergency cases from every socioeconomic class, it catered, unofficially but famously, to the demands of the rich from the counties of eastern Pennsylvania.Įarly in the morning of Tuesday, November 12, 1929, John B. Unusual luxuries characterized the private rooms: a telephone and radio were installed at every bedside nurses could be summoned and addressed by call-buttons and two-way speakers and high-speed elevators whisked visitors to the wards. In the late 1920s, the Hahnemann Medical College, at the corner of Broad and Vine Streets in Philadelphia, was one of the largest private hospitals in the United States. I never really felt pretty, bright or socially adept.-Grace ![]()
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