The construction foreman wasn’t supposed to go down there. The sub-basement wasn’t on any blueprint the development company had been given, wasn’t in any permit filing, wasn’t in any city record going back 30 years. But Ray Bustamante went down there anyway, flashlight in hand, boots crunching on 30-year-old concrete dust. And…
October 25th, 1957, 10:15 in the morning. The barber shop inside the Park Sheritan Hotel, 7th Avenue and 55th Street, Manhattan. Albert Anastasia sat in chair number four, a hot towel draped across his face, his eyes closed. He was getting a shave. He’d left his bodyguard parked in the garage. His…
January 18th, 1978, just after midnight, the Sunbright Bar on 46th Street and 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. A small time hood named Harold Whitehead, was leaning against the bar, drunk, running his mouth about Jimmy Kunan. He’d been warned twice. He didn’t listen. Eddie Kamusky, a 40-year-old former Singh inmate with…
42 Halfmoon Street, Piccadilly. The 11th of September, 1921. A 67-year-old man collapses in a rented flat. His wife is not in the room. She walked to the pharmacy on the corner to collect a prescription. When she returns, he is already dead. The man’s death certificate will record the cause as…
10 iconic jewelry moments of Princess Diana that shocked the royal world. There are jewels, and then there are Diana’s jewels, each whispering a story the palace never meant to tell. From emeralds once locked in royal vaults to diamonds worn like declarations of freedom, her choices stunned tradition itself. Some shimmerred with heartbreak, others…
The woman a king abdicated for a priceless jewel collection. The British Empire once ruled over 25% of the entire world. Its wealth was unimaginable. But there was one woman whose personal worth made the empire looks small. And today we’re looking at the jewelry she wore to prove it. This collection…
In the summer of 1999, William went back to Althorp, the house where his mother had grown up. He had been there before. For the funeral, for the burial. This time, something had changed. This time, in a room at the end of the east corridor, he found something his mother had…
As the story goes, at a high society party in New York, someone asked Princess Margaret how the Queen was doing. She replied, “Which one? My sister, my mother, or my husband?” That’s the Margaret they leave out of the documentaries. Sharp, wry, entirely at ease with the architecture of her own…
On June 13th, 2006, Christie’s King Street Sale Room in London opened its morning session with lot 4718180. The auctioneer’s description was precise. A diamond tiara fashioned in 11 separable elements, old cut and cushion-shaped diamond clusters alternating with scrolled cartouche motifs, set in silver and gold, made by the House of…
March 30th, 2002. Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park. 3:15 in the afternoon. Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was found dead in her bed at the age of 101, 7 weeks after her younger daughter, Princess Margaret, and almost exactly 50 years after her husband, King George VI. She had outlived him for half…
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