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Fool’s Gold Still angling to have his royal status reinstated, Prince Andrew can’t take the hint

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The Jewel Is The Crown Even though Season Five of Netflix’s hit series is a laughable portrait of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, the show’s critics will keep watching

Wine

Terroir Incognita How a plucky couple from Chicago put England on the wine-making map


Riding the Royal Coattails Do you have questions about the coronation? Hugo Vickers has answers

Small Talk

The Clown Prince Post-Jubilee, Harry reports back to Netflix*

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Best

The Seated Queen Moisturize

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The Italian Coast

The Genoa Revival The port city on Italy’s northwest coast has a stunning, fresco-clad history, and big plans for the future

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Kim Kardashian is polluting, Elon Musk is brooding, and Donald Trump is feuding. (Surprise!) Plus, the strangest news from across the world

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Air Mail Diary

Controversy over The Crown (the Show, Not Charles) And other strange news about these curious days …

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The Queen’s Next Move In Salzburg’s The Tales of Hoffmann, Kathryn Lewek shows four faces of the Eternal Feminine

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Tempest in a Martini Glass

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?

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The Phantom of the Royal Opera There’s a reason J.R. Moehringer, who has ghosted memoirs for Andre Agassi and Phil Knight, was paid seven figures for the Prince Harry job

The Royal Soap Opera

The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince A convicted Libyan gun smuggler, a royal introduction to a pedophile, a $50 million lawsuit—it’s just another week for Andrew


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Pop Royalty Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown

Megxit Follies

Sweet Smell of Sussex Harry and Meghan’s production company, Archewell, is leaking employees. Their development deal with Netflix is a bust. Can they redeem their Hollywood dream?

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But First …

Behind the Palace Curtain A new season of The Crown, a scathing nonfiction account, the tell-all memoir from Prince Harry himself—there is no shortage of ways to take in the royal family, but none are flattering

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Travel

Let Them Eat Pudding! Until recently, only the friends and family of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire could experience their Yorkshire estate. Now just about anyone can come

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The Windsor Knot

Harry and Kate Go to a Coronation One smiles and dazzles, and the other grimaces and bolts. Who’s the new star of the Firm?

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Donald Trump is at a loss for words, Scarlett Johansson is losing her voice, and the Sussexes’ invitation got lost in the mail. Plus, the strangest news from around the world

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The Downton Effect

Living Large Peek inside the magnificent English estates that star in The Crown and Bridgerton

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Little Britain, Part I

Harry the Conquering Hero The prince comes to the rescue to “protect” his grandmother the Queen and ensure the “right people” are around her

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Open Book

Past and Presents Dollhouses, paper angels, fir trees … A new coffee-table book looks back at a century of holiday photographs from around the world

T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Marjorie Taylor Greene demands that a judge take it all off, Mrs. Kanye West comes dangerously close to losing her “shirt,” and Clarence Thomas courts a strange bedfellow


Royal Romance

A Blue-Blooded Highland Fling The 21-year-old niece of King Charles—Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor—has got the rumor mill churning at the same university where Prince William first met Kate Middleton

Nothing Sacred

Messing with Perfection In the latest affront to musical history, Cat Power is covering Bob Dylan’s 1966 concert at the Royal Albert Hall

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