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Small Talk

Elon Musk’s Pre-Election Thoughts The SpaceX billionaire lambastes the Dems’ crooked agenda and shares his plans to colonize Mars

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Country Pursuits

Luck, Be This Lady Carole Bamford has turned Daylesford into not only a posh grocery store but a signifier for a certain way of life

Great Lives

Dirck Halstead From Saigon’s fall to Reagan’s shooting to Monicagate, the photographer was at the center of history as it happened


Empire State of Mind

The Art of the Fake

The Princess Bribes Swindlers on TikTok are impersonating 19-year-old Princess Leonor, the much-beloved heir to the Spanish throne—and cheating her fans out of hundreds of dollars

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Sports

Perfecting Their Backhand As the U.S. Open approaches, WOTs—the wives of tennis stars—are giving soccer’s WAGs a run for their money

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Megxit Follies

The Sussex Survivors’ Club The trauma. The truths. The tears. The second installment of Harry & Meghan goes full-blown reality TV

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But First …

The View from Here Fifty years on, Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, “Napalm Girl,” still has the power to shock. But can a picture change the world?

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Air Mail Diary

Emmanuel Macron Gets Some Very Expensive Advice And other strange news about these curious days …

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Open Book

Meet You at Mortimer’s A new book revisits the mid-70s heyday of Mortimer’s restaurant, which played host to everyone from Jackie O and Nancy Reagan to Liz Smith and Mick Jagger

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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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Air Mail Diary

Has the Queen Buried Meghan? And other strange news about these curious days …

Seeing Red

Our Cups Runneth Over The popularity of Aperol, the alluringly colored aperitif, has exploded far beyond the cocktail bars of Venice. Who’s to blame?


The Royals

Sins of the Father What does Prince Andrew’s scandal mean for Britain’s hardest-working princesses, Beatrice and Eugenie?

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

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Air Mail Diary

Two More Prince Andrew Dramas And other strange news about these curious days …

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Country Pursuits

Horse Sense Little-known photos by Julian Lloyd hearken back to the Swinging 60s and the electric meeting point of British society, rock ‘n’ roll, and, of course, horses

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Online Special

Dinner Party From Hell It’s time for a second look at Thomas Adès’s loopy dance of death The Exterminating Angel

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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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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Can anyone stop Prince Harry’s run of victories? Kevin Spacey and others make their move. But the decision is up to you!

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Curses!

The C-Spot Nothing validates the dictum that the U.S. and the U.K. are “two nations divided by a common language” quite like this single, four-letter word

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Royals on Holiday

Sleeping Around A farmhouse in Romania, a monastery in Greece, a cottage in Cornwall—King Charles’s preferred getaways are surprisingly plebeian. And most are open to the public

The Prince of Wails Even though Andrew’s legacy has been marred by endless scandals, the coddled prince was shocked to the point of tears when he finally understood his title was gone forever


T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Elon Musk is failing, Donald Trump is flailing, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is whaling

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

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