a symbolic individual gesture but from the French president today a universal message to the British people to you he was your queen to us she was the queen to us all she would be with us forever at NATO the flags of 30 Nations flew at half mast for a monarch with consummate diplomatic…
Sandringham, the winter of 2007. For 2 years, Camilla had been quietly making the estate feel like hers. Then she decided Diana’s bedroom should no longer look like Diana’s. William found out and went straight to the Queen. What the Queen did next, Camilla never forgot. Sandringham House sits in Norfolk, roughly 100 miles north…
Have you ever wondered what each member of the royal family actually likes to eat? The answers range from surprisingly simple to genuinely weird. Let’s go through every member of the royal family and find out what they really eat. Starting with King Charles. King Charles’s favorite dish is pheasant crumble pie, which features poached…
February 29th, 1996. Sarajevo. The longest siege in modern European history had ended 3 days earlier. The streets were quiet for the first time in nearly 4 years. And the British soldiers rolling into the city under the new IFOR mandate had a problem nobody in Whitehall had properly solved. The ground beneath them was…
1938 A Hungarian weapons testing ground on Haros Island south of Budapest. Military officials from seven nations have now seen the same demonstration. A light tank bolted to oversized pontoons lumbers into the Danube. It floats, barely. It paddles across at walking pace, wallowing and unstable, then clanks ashore trailing water. Every delegation reaches the…
March 24th, 1945. Just before 11:00 in the morning, 10:50 hours, over the east bank of the Rhine, eight General Aircraft Hamilcar gliders cast off from their Halifax tugs at 3,000 ft and began the silent descent into Germany. Inside each one sat an American light tank with its engine already running. Exhaust fumes vented…
Southern Iraq, the spring of 2003. The sun is barely clear of the horizon, and already the heat is coming up off the ground in slow waves. At a forward base near the border, an American sergeant stands at the edge of the vehicle park with a cup of coffee going cold in his hand….
What did Queen Elizabeth really think of Meghan Markle? You might assume you already know the answer. The tabloid headlines wrote themselves [music] for years. Endless stories about tension, drama, and disapproval behind palace walls. But the truth is far more complicated than a simple thumbs up or thumbs down. Because the Queen’s [music] opinion…
At a supper at Windsor in November of 2003, the Queen noticed something at Camilla’s throat that made her set down her fork and look twice. It was a small necklace, almost modest, the kind of piece that would escape most eyes in a crowded room. But the Queen did not have most eyes. She…
From dictators to democrats, from presidents to prime ministers, Queen Elizabeth met countless world leaders over her 70-year reign. All of them passing through Buckingham Palace, shaking the same hand, receiving the same polite smile. But behind that smile, Queen Elizabeth was keeping score. She never shared her opinions publicly. She knew better than that….
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