They looked perfect together. That was the thing everyone agreed on. From the moment they appeared in public as a couple in the early 1950s to the last photographs taken in Dallas on the morning of November 22nd, 1963, the dark-haired senator and his elegant young wife, the wit and the composure, the energy…
Millions of women across the country spent the 1960s trying to copy what she wore. Designers sold out within days of her being photographed in their work. A single appearance at a state dinner could shift the entire direction of American fashion for the following year. And yet, almost none of them knew the…
He read six newspapers every morning before his breakfast was finished. Then he swam before lunch, took a bath, took a nap for up to two hours, took another bath, changed into a fresh suit, and went back to the Oval Office as though the day had only just started. He smoked four to…
She once told a close friend that the only thing worth having in life was something the world couldn’t take a photograph of. Jackie Kennedy [music] spent 30 years proving she meant it. She burned her diary. [music] She fought a paparazzo in court for years. She sealed her most honest recordings for 50 years…
There were two women in the life of Aristotle Onasses. One he chose, one he loved. They were never the same woman. For 9 years, Maria Callus, the greatest soprano who ever lived, was the soul of Aristotle Onases. She gave up her career for him. She gave up her marriage for him. She gave…
On the 11th of November 2018 at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Senate in Whiteall, London, a small gold watch caught the gray afternoon light on Megan, Duchess of Sussex’s left wrist, cool, compact, its rectangular dial in the collar of winter sun against [music] black wool. It was identified by press observers as…
In the autumn of 1917, a well-dressed Englishman arrived at a shuttered palace in Petrorad, carrying two Gladstone bags and wearing the clothes of a working man. The city was dissolving around him. Boleviks in the streets, soldiers abandoning their posts, the Ramanov dynasty finished after 300 years. Albert Henry Stopford had no business being…
Martha’s Vineyard, Fourth of July weekend, 1995. John F. Kennedy Jr. is on a fishing boat and he has just asked Carolyn bet to marry him. She said no. Not a theatrical refusal, not a scene. She told him they still had to talk about how their lives would fit together. Then she went home….
Every year, on the very same winter day, Queen Elizabeth II addressed millions around the globe with her Christmas message. The camera always framed her in the same way—poised, calm, and composed. But for those with a keen eye, there was always another detail to notice. Pinned to her shoulder, or sitting close to her…
We often wonder how the British monarchy might have looked today if Charles and Camilla had simply been allowed to marry in the 1970s. But history followed a much longer, more difficult path. While Queen Elizabeth II was a master of keeping her true thoughts concealed, she possessed a remarkably precise language of her own:…
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