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Pedaling Bad Behavior

SoulCycle was always cultish. Now instructors are accused of having sex with clients, racism, and more

Diana’s Last Days

Divorced from Prince Charles and estranged from the royal family, the Princess of Wales finds romance and an adoring public

Three-Ways, U.K.-Style

It’s Netflix/Palace vs. No. 10 for this week’s biggest ratings

Mademoiselle’s Literary Glam Girl

Edie Locke encouraged Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan while publishing Truman Capote and John Updike

A Prince Is Born

While Diana upstaged Charles and gave birth to William, her marriage faltered, and Camilla’s visits to Highgrove, Charles’s family home, became more frequent

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news for these rather curious days

The King’s Gambit

Is Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, running out of moves?

Was Diana Duped?

Earl Spencer accuses the BBC of swindling his sister out of secrets in her infamous interview

Joe Biden’s Not-So-Secret Weapon

American-born and raised in France by a stepfather who had survived the Holocaust, Tony Blinken will shape the next president’s global relations

King of Queens

Is newly elected New York State representative Zohran Kwame Mamdani the next A.O.C.?

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A concession speech for a presidential loser who won’t admit he’s, well, a loser

Instagram’s Brave New World

Influencers who are computer-generated and who, like their followers, never sleep

When Charles Met Diana

As Netflix unveils The Crown’s Diana years, a closer look at the princess-to-be who sobbed her way through her wedding rehearsal

Shot in the Dark

I was a lab rat for the new coronavirus vaccine

“A Bit of a Clever Dick”

Scottish actor-comedian John Sessions voiced Laurence Olivier, acted with Meryl Streep, and channeled Keith Richards

Depp Goes Down Swinging

Once Hollywood’s fêted heartthrob, Johnny Depp may never work again after this week’s High Court verdict in the U.K.

Did You Hear About … ?

Quirky news for these rather curious days

No One Spikes These Stories

How Substack became home to big-name journalists who felt “the Youngs” in newsrooms were putting wokeness ahead of important ideas

Did She Marry a He-Devil?

Fay Weldon’s life eerily imitates her fiction

Xi Marks the Spot

The coronavirus accelerated China’s rise, but the country’s future isn’t as certain as its president insists

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Happy days are weird again

The Secret Histories

Collectors and voyeurs vie for other people’s diaries

Cruel Brittania

Why on earth does Boris Johnson want to tune out the BBC?