She wore pearls that cost less than $200 to every state dinner and every White House photo opportunity for three years straight, and nobody in the room ever knew they were fake. She had a dermatologist who prescribed her champagne as one of her daily dietary requirements …
Christian IIth’s most trusted adviser, his doctor, slept with his wife and tried to usurp his crown. When Christian finally caught on, the doctor faced one of history’s most gruesome punishments. While monarchs like Henry VIII or King George III get a lot of historical attention for…
The conservation light falls cold and precise across the honeycomb diamonds of the Grareville tiara sealed behind museum glass at Windsor Castle’s exhibition galleries. It is the spring of 2018 and somewhere inside Buckingham Palace, another room holds a velvet tray bearing this same tiara alongside a second piece, Queen Mary’s Bandeau, arranged for a…
$5. That’s all Bob Dylan had in his pocket on September 14th, 1962. Five crumpled dollar bills. His last $5. Rent was 3 months overdue. He hadn’t eaten a real meal in 2 days. He was 21 years old, and nobody knew his name. But when Dylan heard a homeless man butchering his song on…
Forgotten in the jewel box, the jewels of Queen Elizabeth never seen enough. There’s something haunting about a jewel that sparkles just once before disappearing into darkness. Queen Elizabeth II possessed hundreds of treasures, some worn constantly until they became part of her identity. Others that emerged for a single evening before vanishing for decades….
When Prince died in April 2016, his phone was found at Paisley Park. Inside the contacts, names you’d expect, collaborators, family, friends. But there was one name that surprised everyone who saw it. Bob Dylan with a phone number next to it. Prince had kept Bob Dylan’s personal number in his phone for 30 years…
Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. March 23rd, 2011. Morning. Elizabeth Taylor had been there for 6 weeks. Admitted on February 11th with congestive heart failure, a condition she’d been fighting since her diagnosis in 2004. She was 79 years old. The disease had narrowed her world down to that hospital, to that floor,…
August 31st, 1997. Diana makes a phone call from the back seat of a Mercedes in Paris. The person she calls is Richard K, the Daily Mail’s royal correspondent, a man she has trusted for years, met in back alleys in Bazewater to keep the palace’s surveillance from registering the relationship. They have been…
The photographer’s hands were shaking so badly he almost dropped his camera. Kurt Cobain had just climbed into a coffin and asked to be photographed like a corpse. Two months later, he would be dead and everyone in that Los Angeles studio would spend the rest of their lives wondering if they could have stopped…
It was August 30th, 1992, and Kirk Cobain was standing backstage at the Reading Festival in England, staring at a pregnancy test that would change everything. 50,000 people were screaming his name outside, but all he could hear was the sound of his own heartbeat. Courtney Love was 3 months pregnant, and nobody in the…
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