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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

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


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?

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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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

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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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The View from Here Liz Truss’s catastrophic 45 days as British prime minister have set the stage for a Tarantino-like face-off for her replacement. Brexit-stung Europeans look on in bemusement

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Small Talk

“Anyone Seen the Beefeater Gin Guy?” Queen Elizabeth headed one of the world’s biggest brands. It’s only right that advertising heads of state come to mourn her

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Air Mail Diary

Prince William’s Eyebrow-Raising News Peg And other strange news about these curious days …

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


Small Talk

What a Piece of Work Sure, I can write you a tell-all full of objective facts

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Nette Light

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Air Mail Diary

Russia’s Rich Hunt for New Homes Plus, are Swedes rude? And other strange news about these curious days …

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Into the Garden

For the Love of Roses Today’s rose fanatics—and there are a lot of them—join a fan club that stretches from Sappho to Shakespeare to Empress Joséphine

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Megxit Follies

Desperately Seeking Sympathy Can someone get Harry and Meghan a private jet to this Netflix “global event” pity party?

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Small Talk

Drawing a Blank Fergie guest-hosts the ill-fated British chat show This Morning, offering underwhelming relationship advice and struggling to read the teleprompter

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Megxit Follies

Keeping Up with the Sussexes In the parallel universe of the super-rich, can Prince Harry and Meghan Markle stand their ground?

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Icons of Style

The Last Empress How has Denise Hale managed to maintain her grip over San Francisco society?

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The Harry Diaries

The Heir and the Spare Britain’s royal soap opera continues …

The Perfect Ending

Bette Midler The entertainer and activist answers 53 of life’s most pressing questions


Online Special

The Barbie Girl Variations A Spanish cellist in Sweden who moonlights on piano gives Aqua’s golden oldie a half dozen makeovers

Air Mail Diary

Prince William’s Eyebrow-Raising News Peg And other strange news about these curious days …

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