There are women in American history whose names are remembered mostly in relation to someone else’s story. Pat Nixon is one of them. Decades of coverage, thousands of photographs, and she is still most often described as the woman who stood beside Richard Nixon, composed, loyal, smiling through things that would…
On February 6th, 1952, King George V 6th died and Elizabeth became queen. She was 25 years old. Her first crisis wasn’t the Cold War or the Commonwealth or Churchill. It was her mother who refused to leave the house. The king had spent February 5th at Sandringham without incident. Accounts gathered…
At this point, it’s very well known that Princess Margaret wasn’t a good person. That comment appeared under a YouTube documentary about Princess Margaret and earned hundreds of up votes. The thread below it filled quickly. People calling her entitled, rude, and nasty, using the exact vocabulary they felt the video itself had…
Ingrid Bergman abandoned her daughter. Bogart and Casablanca told you who she was. 1942, Casablanca, Hollywood’s most beloved love story and the most celebrated performance of its era. Ingrid Bergman played Ilsa Lund, a woman pure enough to break your heart, noble enough that audiences across America believed the face and the…
depression. And it was pretty rough, but they were they I’ve read and been told of or rather asked questions Those words came from a man the world believed it had completely figured out. Light. The world watched Frank Sinatra for decades and saw confidence, saw control, saw a man who moved…
Las Vegas, August 1976. A spotlight hit Elvis Presley as he walked slowly to the piano, dressed in black instead of his usual sequined jumpsuit. 2,000 people fell silent, sensing something was different tonight. Elvis sat down heavily, adjusted the microphone with trembling hands, and spoke in a voice already thick with…
August 4th, 1977. Midnight. The phone rang in Linda Thompson’s Los Angeles apartment. She’d been asleep, dreaming of nothing in particular, when the sound jolted her awake. She knew before she answered. Somehow, she just knew. Elvis’s voice on the other end was thick, slurred, barely recognizable. Linda, he said, and just…
She appeared from nowhere during Elvis’s most intimate song. And when the spotlight hit her face, Elvis stopped singing completely. The woman’s identity would explain mysteries about Elvis that fans had wondered about for years. It was August 16th, 1976, exactly one year before Elvis would leave this world, and he was…
Las Vegas, July 1973. The spotlight hit Elvis Presley as 2,500 fans erupted in applause at the Hilton International Hotel. But something was terribly wrong. His white jumpsuit, usually fitted perfectly, hung loosely on his frame in some places while straining at the seams in others. His movements were slow, almost mechanical,…
You know, when I tried to talk about my book in the hard cover, you said $18.95, you know, that’s a lot of money for a book. And I said it’s my whole life. >> You I didn’t know you were that sensitive. You actually remember that. >> I’m I’m so sensitive,…
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