May the 10th, 1942, 11:23 in the morning. A black staff car turns off the Cockfosters’s road in Middle Sex and passes through a pair of iron gates framed by...
August the 8th, 1944. Just after the first light, a sunken lane somewhere in the Normandy Boage. Hedros rising 10 ft on either side, thick as castle walls and twice...
In 1982, a young British paratrooper was dug into a freezing observation post on the hills above Goose Green in the Faulland Islands. He had been watching Argentine positions for...
The Queen Mother owned over 450 raceh horses across her lifetime. She attended every major race meeting. She bet heavily, and when she lost, which was often, the bills went...
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...