In the spring of 1962, a photograph was taken aboard a yacht off the coast of Greece. In it, Lee Radzil sits at the edge of a group that includes her sister, her husband, and Aristotle Onasses. She is perfectly dressed. Her posture is correct. She is smiling and she is unmistakably at the edge…
In the spring of 2018, inside a temperature-cont controlled strong room at Windsor Castle, a conservator in white cotton gloves placed Queen Mary’s Bando tiara beneath an examination light. The piece, a flexible band of interlock diamonds in silver and gold, cataloged in the Royal Collection …
In the months following Diana’s death in August 1997, beneath the fluorescent lights of a Kensington Palace inventory room, a solicitor placed a sapphire ring into a velvet line tray. The ring, an oval salon sapphire surrounded by 14 diamonds set by Gard and Company, had…
That word almost made Kurt laugh. Respectable. As if all the years of broken homes and borrowed couches and half-empty stomachs and thrift-store shame had been leading toward this moment—a millionaire promoter in Argentina telling him he ought to be grateful somebody had finally cleaned him up enough to sell. Marcus snapped open the…
November the 22nd, 1963 started as an ordinary Friday morning. Breakfast in Fort Worth, a short flight to Dallas. Smiling crowds waving from the streets. But behind the scenes of that tragic day, lie bizarre details that most people have never heard. A president’s last meal of softboiled eggs, a package of curtain rods …
She stood composed on Air Force One while her husband’s blood was still on her dress. She planned a state funeral in 24 hours that the whole world watched. She moved herself and her children out of the White House in 2 weeks while simultaneously shaping what history would say about John F. Kennedy…
The world saw the perfectly composed couple, the state [music] dinners, the children playing on the Oval Office floor, the glamour, the culture, the promise of a new American era. What the world did not see was the doctor who came through the back door 34 times in 2 years carrying injections that contained methamphetamine….
Christmas morning, December 2025. The walk from Sandringham House to St. Mary Magdalene Church is one of the most photographed short distances in England. A few hundred yards of Norfolk gravel lined with well-wishers, press photographers, and the particular kind of frozen anticipation that comes from waiting for royals who will actually appear. Princess Beatatrice…
June 4th, 2024. Bishon Hall, Staffordshire. A handwritten manuscript goes up for auction at Rare Books Auctions with a pre-sale estimate of £3,000 to £5,000. Composed around 1978, discovered decades later in a box in Kennallorth, the kind of thing that surfaces when someone clears an…
In Vietnam, the jungle had no mercy, and the enemy had no fear, but neither did the Australians. They came from a land far from the war they were thrown into. Men who weren’t looking for glory, but found themselves standing in places where glory didn’t exist. The jungle didn’t care who you were. The…
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