What do you wake up one morning and discover your life is over? Most people get angry. Some cry. Babe Ruth did neither.…
July 23rd, 1986. Westminster Abbey, 1,800 guests, 500 million viewers worldwide. The Queen bestows one of the most prestigious titles in British periage…
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Every documentary about Princess Mary tells you she was the last surviving child of King George V. They’re wrong. The Duke of Windsor,…
On March 30th, 2002, more than 200,000 people filed past a coffin in Westminster Hall. They queued for hours, sometimes through the night,…
At precisely noon each day for nearly 50 years, a ritual began at Clarence House. William Talon, known to everyone as backsters Billy,…
Every documentary about Ethel Kennedy tells the same story. Devoted mother, human rights champion, a dynasty held together by one woman’s faith. But…
The autumn of 1946 was not kind to the Duke of Windsor. He was 52 years old, living in exile in Paris, watching…
On June 2nd, 1953, a man sat in a Paris apartment and watched television. This shouldn’t have been remarkable. Millions of people across…
Every documentary about Ethel Kennedy tells you she was a stoic widow who held her family together. But there’s a book that no…