Royals

The Daumier of La Dolce Vita Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp. But 79-year-old Rino Barillari isn’t slowing down

By Tom Kington

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Portfolio

The Downtown Set A list of the 50 young New Yorkers who are remaking Lower Manhattan in their own image

Lady in Motion After the unexpected success of Anne Glenconner’s juicy memoir Lady in Waiting, the 90-year-old decided to write a sequel

By Hilary Rose

Brush with the Devil

Lucian Freud’s “Slave” David Dawson was the artist’s fixer, confidant, and gofer—and he still lives in his master’s house

By Rachel Campbell-Johnston

School for Scoundrels Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling

By James Fox

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Assignment: Sinatra
Part III Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas

By Gay Talese

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Joining “the Firm” An aspiring journalist from New Delhi gets a private tour of Kensington Palace—his new girlfriend’s childhood home

By Aatish Taseer

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A Very British Scandal It was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history—but it took a TV show to get the government to act

By John Arlidge

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Across the Jillyverse Publishing her 18th novel at 86 years old, novelist Jilly Cooper is as prolific—and ready to talk about sex—as ever

By Josh Glancy

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Sloane Alone Turns out there’s no etiquette guide on how to behave when your wife leaves you to become the Queen of England

By Hilary Rose

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Devil Baby Cocaine killed my ex-husband. Now fentanyl—the worst drug the world has ever seen—has our daughter in its grip

By Lyndall Hobbs

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The King of Lies Separating fact from fiction in the latest, heavily fabricated season of The Crown

By Hugo Vickers