The kid was 9 years old, bare knees, scraped elbows, getting his face pushed into the cracked pavement of the old harbor housing projects in South Boston. It was 1949, summer, the kind of humid afternoon where the laundry hung limp on the lines between buildings, and the smell of boiled cabbage…
It’s late 1988 in Philadelphia. Inside a federal courtroom, Nicodemo Little Nikki Scaro sits at the defendant’s table alongside 16 of his closest associates. The jury has been deliberating for days on charges that include 10 murders, five attempted murders, extortion, gambling, and drug trafficking. Two of Scaro’s own men, Tommy Deljorno…
We often feel that we know the jewelry collection of Diana, Princess of Wales, by heart. We see the Sapphire engagement ring on the Princess of Wales today, or the butterfly earrings on the Duchess of Sussex, and assume the legacy has been neatly divided. However, there is a shadow archive—a collection of…
The Queen’s jewels that vanished the day she died, no one knows where they are. She wore them for 70 years, then she was gone, and so were they. Queen Elizabeth II owned one of the most documented jewelry collections in history. Every brooch, every tiara, every necklace cataloged, photographed, studied….
Picture a small woman in a bouffant hairdo standing in the receiving line at Claridge’s in London, 1963. On her head, a soaring diamond tiara that once belonged to a Prussian princess who had tea with Queen Victoria. Around her neck, an emerald kokoshnik that started its life in the Russian Imperial…
There is a photograph taken in the early 1960s. Joan Kennedy standing beside her husband at some glittering Washington event draped in pearls, luminous, smiling. And yet, if you study it long enough, something unsettling surfaces. Because that smile never quite reaches her eyes. Everyone knows the Kennedy name, the tragedies, the…
Every family has its heirlooms, but the royal family has over 1 million of them. Known as the royal collection, this artistic treasure trove holds everything from the crown jewels to royal portraits, precious ornaments, and priceless sculptures. The Royal Collection is the biggest private art collection in the world. It really…
in the crisp autumn of 1968 the shimmering Waters of the ionian sea bore witness to an extraordinary Union on the secluded island of scorpios Greek shipping Tycoon Aristotle Onasis and America’s widowed first lady jacqulyn Kennedy vowed to intertwine their Destinies but the event was far from the enchanting scenes one…
so you finally found a video that will peel back the curtains of the world’s most exclusive schools in a brutally honest manner you want to peer into hallowed Halls brimming with the children of old money families that have been Rich for centuries from the tudor-styled charm of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts…
She was 97 years old. She walked with a cane, and on the morning of September 6th, 1997, as an estimated audience approaching 2 billion watched one of the most pivotal funerals of the modern era, television cameras kept returning to her face. For many viewers, one question seemed unavoidable. Why doesn’t…
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