You probably know John F. Kennedy as America’s 35th president. But did you know he had to be reminded to eat dinner, donated his entire salary to charity while scraping by on a $75 monthly grocery budget, and credited a beef soup recipe with helping him win …
There are moments in life that arrive without warning. Moments that look like one thing on the surface but turn out to be something else entirely underneath. This is one of those stories. And if you have lived long enough to know that sometimes the people who seem the most powerful are actually the most…
They were photographed together constantly, smiling, walking hand in hand, the picture of the perfect American couple. But behind the doors of the White House, John and Jackie Kennedy slept in separate rooms. His bed was dressed in angels and cherubs on blue and white fabric chosen by a man who told his decorator he…
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,…
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