She never wanted to be a fairy tale princess. As a member of the royal family, females were tended to be treated as honorary men. She loves driving the tanks and firing the guns. As the Princess Royal prepares for her 70th birthday, we’ve had unique access to her family and her…
Princess Diana affectionately known as The People’s princess captivated the world with her grace compassion and Relentless advocacy for the underprivileged indeed her warmth radiated beyond the stiff formalities of royalty touching the hearts of millions across the globe and her Legacy is one of profound impact and enduring Fascination transcending the…
There is a photograph taken in the summer of 1959 on the deck of a yacht called Christina. In it, Maria Callas is laughing. Really laughing. The kind that reaches the eyes, that makes a person look like they have no idea what’s coming. She looks free. She looks like a woman…
There is a photograph taken on the night of June 5th, 1968 inside the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. In it, Ethel Kennedy is crouched over her dying husband on the kitchen floor, three months pregnant, surrounded by chaos. She is looking at him. The world is falling apart around her. And…
Everyone thinks they know what Jackie Kennedy looked like. Almost nobody knows how she made herself look that way. The image is so fixed in the cultural memory that it reads as inevitable. The dark hair swept back, the pale shift dress, the pillbox hat placed precisely, the white gloves, the composure…
Charles loved Camila in 1971. He loved her in 1981 when he married someone else. He loved her in 1997 when that marriage ended in a death. And he loved her in 2005 when he finally married her. 34 years. And the reason it took 34 years has a name. The Queen…
December 5th, 1936. Before dawn, Wallis Simpson steps into a car outside Fort Belvedere, the gothic country house in Windsor Great Park where Edward had made his home, and begins the long drive south toward France. Lord Brownlow, the king’s own lord-in-waiting, sits beside her. The British press has just broken the…
Why is anybody surprised? The stories about Princess Margaret, the cruelty, the entitlement, they’re well-known. Staff called her Her Rude Highness. She demanded even her closest friends address her as “Ma’am Darling.” She once erupted in a brutal row with dinner guests that witnesses documented in detail. At parties, she was legendarily…
There is a moment, and if you know it, you feel it in your chest, when a woman who was never supposed to wear a crown walks into a room wearing one. She was a secretary, a shop assistant, a swimmer, a journalist, a marketing executive who went for a drink with…
What’s your name? Can I shake your hand? What’s your name? Lily Rose. Hello. Princess Kate might be the next people’s princess, given her preference for connecting with fans over adhering to royal protocol. Kate Middleton made news on a visit to South Wales when she halted her convoy, which is unusual…
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