Here’s the thing nobody talks about. Not every Hapsburg child was deformed. Some were born perfectly healthy, strong, intelligent, physically normal. In a bloodline with an inbreeding coefficient that should...
For centuries, we only had portraits and autopsy reports. The portraits were flattering lies commissioned by the very people they depicted, painted by artists whose salaries depended on making the...
Everything Prince Harry complained about being the spare, being controlled, being told who to love, being punished for independence, happened to Princess Margaret 50 years earlier. The difference, Margaret didn’t...
This is Las Maninas. You’ve seen it. It’s the most famous painting in the Western world. There are 11 people in this painting. I’m going to tell you what happened...
On June 29th, 1994, Prince Charles appeared on national television and admitted to adultery. That same evening, Princess Diana walked into the Serpentine Gallery in a black off-the-shoulder Christina Stambolan...
He looked like a kicked chunk of dirty snow left against the wall. Then the snow blinked and I realized it was a white Labrador puppy. He was jammed behind...
While she was still Princess of Wales, still living in Kensington Palace, still attending state dinners with the Queen, Diana was secretly recording hours of testimony about her marriage, her...
Before the divorce, before the panorama interview, before there were three of us in this marriage became the most quoted sentence in royal history. Diana Spencer walked up to Camila...
It is the 14th of March 1943 and somewhere in the Bay of Bisque, a type 7 Ubot is running on the surface, charging its batteries in the gray Atlantic...
There is a particular kind of confidence that only comes from having been tested. Not the loud kind, not the kind that announces itself at a bar or brags at...