Gene Kelly walked into rehearsal hall B at 2:14 in the afternoon and didn’t announce himself. He didn’t need to. The room adjusted the moment he appeared in the doorway,...
Helen Margaret Collins never thought she’d be the type of grandmother to spend her pension money on pop concerts. But at 62 years old, standing in the front row of...
She was 97 years old. She walked with a cane, and on the morning of September 6th, 1997, as an estimated audience approaching 2 billion watched one of the most...
Just after midnight on August 31st, 1997, a black Mercedes sped into Paris’s Pont de l’Alma tunnel and simply never came out the other side. Within seconds, Princess Diana, who...
In August of 1980, at Windsor Castle, the woman many believed would marry Prince Charles sat and watched as he spent the evening dancing with Camilla Parker Bowles repeatedly, openly,...
There is a photograph of Princess Margaret taken sometime in the mid-1950s that tells you almost everything the public was supposed to believe about her. She is standing on a...
If you look through the archives, you won’t find a single record of Lady Sarah Chatto speaking out against her mother. No dramatic press releases, no family rift splashed across...
Westminster Abbey, 20th November, 1947. The official wedding photographs went around the world. Philip in his naval uniform. Elizabeth in her Norman Hartnull gown with its 10,000 seed pearls and...
The problem with becoming the Queen Mother wasn’t that Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon lost the word Queen. It was that she found a way to keep it. In 1952, her daughter inherited...
When Princess Margaret and her entourage arrived at the Sunningdale Water Ski Club in Berkshire, the members expected a polite royal visit. What they got was a master class in...