Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A matsayin jami'in diflomasiyya, Grandi ya kirkiro hanyar sadarwa wanda surukin Mussolini, Galeazzo Ciano, ya yi gasa da shi, kuma ya yi ƙoƙarin amfani da shi don amfanin kansa. Don haka, ya shawo kan Sarki Victor Emmanuel III don ba shi taken a 1937, kuma ya yi nasarar riƙe matsayi mai kyau har sai Mussolini ya aike shi zuwa Girka Front
tare da sauran "Gerarchi" a 1941. A matsayinsa na jakadan Mussolini a London, yana da alaƙa da wasu daga cikin manyan mata masu tasiri a lokacin - gami da Lady Alexandra Curzon, 'yar Mataimakin Sarkin Indiya, George Curzon.