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So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?

By Judith Newman

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Television

Fifty Shades of Britain In England, Channel 4 has brought the dating show to uncharted territory by featuring naked contestants

By Flora Gill

The Biopic Woman

Good Material, Bad Girl A much-troubled film about Madonna is finally in the works—but can it survive its subject’s notorious perfectionism and boorish manners?

By Ed Power

Tech and Consequences

Call Me Maybe They’re in our beds, our meetings, and our meals, chipping away at intimacy and connection. Here, seven ways to break your worst phone habits

By Shane Watson

Great Scot! Americans, making up a growing share of St. Andrews’s student body, are transforming the quiet university once attended by William and Kate into a beer-pong-playing college campus

By Tilly Frain-Bell

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Mother Knows Best

By Joanne Kaufman

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There Goes the Neigh-borhood! In Florida, old-guard horse-lovers and new-money developers are duking it out for the soul of Wellington

By Nancy Jo Sales

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Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

By George Pendle

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Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

By Brennan Kilbane

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The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

By Andy Webb

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The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

By Andy Webb

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Elements of Style

Life After Lagerfeld Lady Amanda Harlech spent decades working alongside fashion’s most obsessive fixture. So what’s next?

By Vassi Chamberlain

Travel

Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

By Jonathan Margolis

Little Britain

Blood Feud of the Beckhams Legal notices! Blocked on Instagram! The family fight between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents has escalated dramatically

By Marianka Swain

Interview with a Dumpster Fire Prince Andrew’s hilariously awful Jeffrey Epstein interview is being retold in a documentary, a mini-series, and a film. Can there ever be too much of a good thing?

By Stuart Heritage

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The Fall of the House of Mango After the billionaire founder of the fast-fashion label plunged to his death on a Catalan mountain trail, his ineffectual heir became a prime suspect

By Katie Gatens

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The Rise and Rise of Ziggy Stardust Moonage Daydream is the far-out, maximalist documentary David Bowie would have wanted

By Jonathan Dean

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There’s Something About Harry Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?

By Will Hodgkinson

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The Deformative Years

By Pico Iyer

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The World According to Harry Written like an exceedingly long, drunken text message, and opening with a phrase from BrainyQuote, Spare is anything but the typical royal memoir

By James Marriott

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Master of None Amid his battle to take back the White House, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming towerless and losing the Manhattan building that made him a star

By Hugh Tomlinson

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The Hot Seat

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

By Michael Odell

Murder, They Wrote

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows

By Lisa Henricksson

A Very Spanish Scandal

To Blackmail a King The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state

By James Badcock

Royals

So You Want to Be a Guru? Fabulously wealthy women are rebranding themselves as lifestyle gurus. Who’s buying it?

Fifty Shades of Britain In England, Channel 4 has brought the dating show to uncharted territory by featuring naked contestants

Good Material, Bad Girl A much-troubled film about Madonna is finally in the works—but can it survive its subject’s notorious perfectionism and boorish manners?

Call Me Maybe They’re in our beds, our meetings, and our meals, chipping away at intimacy and connection. Here, seven ways to break your worst phone habits

Great Scot! Americans, making up a growing share of St. Andrews’s student body, are transforming the quiet university once attended by William and Kate into a beer-pong-playing college campus

Mother Knows Best

There Goes the Neigh-borhood! In Florida, old-guard horse-lovers and new-money developers are duking it out for the soul of Wellington

Owning the Lits Fringe scholars have long argued that Shakespeare wasn’t really Shakespeare. So why has it suddenly become an article of faith among young conservatives?

Touch and Glow Is the humble safflower the next big miracle worker in skin care? We go to Japan with a hope and a prayer

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

The Princess Deception Program Thirty years on, the journalist who first broke the story of Diana’s betrayal by the BBC’s Martin Bashir reveals the true extent of the cover-up—and why her brother believes its consequences were lethal

Life After Lagerfeld Lady Amanda Harlech spent decades working alongside fashion’s most obsessive fixture. So what’s next?

Malta’s Day in the Sun With Italy and Greece overrun by tourists, the English-speaking Mediterranean island that Queen Elizabeth once called home is a suitably low-key—and culture-packed—alternative

Blood Feud of the Beckhams Legal notices! Blocked on Instagram! The family fight between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents has escalated dramatically

Interview with a Dumpster Fire Prince Andrew’s hilariously awful Jeffrey Epstein interview is being retold in a documentary, a mini-series, and a film. Can there ever be too much of a good thing?

The Fall of the House of Mango After the billionaire founder of the fast-fashion label plunged to his death on a Catalan mountain trail, his ineffectual heir became a prime suspect

The Rise and Rise of Ziggy Stardust Moonage Daydream is the far-out, maximalist documentary David Bowie would have wanted

There’s Something About Harry Harry Styles is at the top of his game as musician, actor, and icon. And what’s not to love?

The Deformative Years

The World According to Harry Written like an exceedingly long, drunken text message, and opening with a phrase from BrainyQuote, Spare is anything but the typical royal memoir

Master of None Amid his battle to take back the White House, Donald Trump is in danger of becoming towerless and losing the Manhattan building that made him a star

A Very British Scandal-Maker Sam McAlister, the longtime BBC producer who persuaded Prince Andrew to do that car-crash interview, tells all

Deadly Pleasures to Read and Watch This month’s best crime-fiction book and TV shows

To Blackmail a King The former mistress of Spain’s exiled monarch, Juan Carlos, forced her 13-year-old son to photograph and video her royal romps in order to extort millions of dollars in hush money from the Spanish state