History remembers the Queen Mother as the woman who saved the monarchy. But what if her real talent was something a lot darker than that? Making power look like kindness....
At a Buckingham Palace dinner-dance in the summer of 1920, a 19-year-old debutante from Scotland was introduced to the man who would soon be the most photographed person on Earth....
In December of 1974, a king in exile made a promise to his nation. Not about democracy, not about the future of Greece, about his mother. He promised publicly, formally,...
In a bedroom overlooking Fifth Avenue, a woman is wrapping jewelry. Not for a party, for a funeral, her own. She is 62 years old. She is dying and she...
She was putting on her boots when her heart stopped. It was a Tuesday morning, spring, West Sussex. She was on her way to the horses. Her name was Lady...
She was 19 years old, and she had been chosen, not fallen in love with, chosen. In the careful, unsentimental arithmetic of the House of Windsor, the future king needed...
In the summer of 1940, the most dangerous document in Europe is not a battle plan. It is an intelligence report sitting on Hermann Göring’s desk, and almost everything in...
The dealership had been closed for 2 hours. The showroom lights were still on. Somebody had forgotten to cut them, or nobody had wanted to be the one to say...
Tonight, Gene Wilder is sitting across from Johnny Carson and the interview is going exactly the way everyone expected. Warm, witty, effortlessly charming. And then Johnny asks one question he...
They’ve been sitting in the waiting room at Mottown Records for four hours. The Jackson 5, Jackie, Tito, Germaine, Maron, and 10-year-old Michael dressed in their best clothes that weren’t...