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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

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

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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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But First …

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 …

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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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Small Talk

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

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Small Talk

Henry Alford’s “This or That” A pop quiz of cultural phenomena

Fergie Follies

The Royal #WeToo The Duchess of York—hardly a shrinking violet—has announced that she is not going to hide her true self anymore. God help us all

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Food and Wine

Five Hundred Years of Fusion At Patua, the best restaurant in Lisbon, the secret ingredient is history

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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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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Pete Hegseth looks for leaks, George Santos begs for a pardon, and Jack Schlossberg won’t go to any party he wasn’t invited to

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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?

Icons of Style

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


Books

The Princess Diaries

The Harry Diaries

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

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