It’s the summer of 1989 in Brooklyn. A federal jury has just convicted a Jamaican drug lord named Delroy Edwards on 42 counts, including 10 murders, 13 assaults, and running one of the most violent crack operations the borough had ever seen. The jurors were so terrified that after delivering their verdict,…
In 2001, a group of Albanian gangsters sat across from 20 armed members of the Gambino crime family at a New Jersey gas station. The Gambinos had bats, they had guns, they outnumbered the Albanians more than three to one. The Albanians pointed a shotgun at a gas pump and told everyone…
On December 14th, 1930, a photographers’s flashbulb lit up the inside of a Chicago church as a young woman walks down the aisle in a white satin gown with a 25 ft train carrying a bouquet of 400 flowers. She is 18 years old. Newspaper photographers have waited outside for hours. The…
There is a photograph taken at Hickory Hill, the Kennedy estate in Mlan, Virginia, sometime in the early 1960s. Ethel Kennedy is standing on the lawn surrounded by children, some hers, some neighbor kids, some cousins who wandered over from another part of the property. She is laughing. The house behind her…
Before the modern royal collection existed, one woman built it. Queen Mary didn’t just inherit jewels. She actively collected them. And many of the pieces we see today exist because of her decisions. So why was she so obsessed with these royal treasures? Number 10, the Cullinin diamonds. In 1905, the Transval government…
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…
Winter 1903. Inside the grand halls of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, a party is underway. But this isn’t just any party. This is the final dazzling spectacle of Imperial Russia. As the nobility dances in 17th century costumes dripping with priceless jewels, a storm is gathering just …
What do you get when you mix a violeteyed movie goddess, more diamonds than the crown jewels, and a life where scandal was just part of breakfast? You get Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood’s most glamorous troublemaker. Did she really find a 500year-old royal pearl in her dog’s mouth? Was her necklace worth more…
Have you ever heard the story of Princess Anne’s diamond brooches, a gunshot, and a kidnapping attempt that shook the monarchy? And behind that steely composure, did you know Princess Anne harbored a famously icy rivalry with none other than Princess Diana? When most people hear British royal jewels, their minds jump…
The Queen Mother was often described as priceless, which was a convenient word because it meant nobody had to talk about what she actually cost. Priceless smile, priceless service, priceless link to the war, priceless grandmother of the nation. The word did everything. It honored her. It elevated her. And it quietly…
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