November 18th, 1978. 5:30 in the afternoon. The Sun Bright Bar, 736 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Mickey Spillane was walking to his car in Woodside, Queens, when a man stepped out from behind a parked sedan and opened fire. Four rounds, point-blank range. Spillane dropped on the sidewalk outside his apartment…
There is a peculiar paradox at the heart of Princess Margaret’s existence that only fully reveals itself when you look at a deed of sale for a house on a Caribbean speck of land called Mystique. the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, a woman who spent her entire life in palaces,…
I have never understood the worship of the Kennedys. Not the grief of November 1963, that is entirely human. And the footage of a 3-year-old boy saluting a coffin will break your heart every time, regardless of what you think about the man inside it. Not the nostalgia for a moment in…
At this point, it’s very well known. Princess Margaret wasn’t a good person. She was entitled, rude, and belittled anyone she felt was beneath her. And if that sounds familiar, it should. Because before there was Prince Andrew, there was Margaret. That isn’t a casual comparison. It’s a structural one. Two second-born…
Those who wish to make the trip to Parkland Hospital find a floral circlet marking that space which the hospital chillingly calls trauma room number one. It was here that the stricken president was rushed and here that he was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m. that day, despite the best efforts of…
April 23rd, 1996. Sotheby’s York Avenue sales rooms, New York. The first session begins at 7:30 in the evening. Outside the building, people have been lining up since before noon. Inside, more than 1,500 registered bidders hold catalog numbers. They have come from 19 countries. Sotheby’s issued 104,611 copies of the sale…
the Prince of Wales says the past year has been the hardest of his life speaking to the media in South Africa he said he was proud of both of them Prince William has just revealed a royal secret that no one saw coming the existence of a sister kept hidden from…
New documentary. Prince Harry not only blamed the paparazzi for the crash that killed his mom. >> On an August evening in 1997, just weeks before the world would lose her. >> 10 months before that, the princess had written me a letter. And in that letter, she said, “The next few…
did you know that the key woman who played one of the biggest roles in the life of the most popular woman in the world had just revealed something that will shock you all we are talking about Lady Sarah mccorquodale who was Princess Diana’s older sister and played a part in…
72 hours. That is how long Canadian soldiers had been holding the most contested piece of ground in southern Afghanistan before the NATO assessment arrived. 72 hours of sustained contact, temperatures at 43° C, ammunition running low, casualties mounting, and a Taliban force estimated at between 200 and 500 fighters pressing from three directions across…
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