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Landing Gear

The Bed That Rocks A $115,000 musical bed with five-star-hotel provenance to put you at the center of the action! A powerful mini–chain saw to help keep your backyard in check! And more …

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View With a Room

Water Works Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa, in Baden-Baden, has reopened after a loving renovation

Best in Show

The Mane Event Formerly the preserve of debs and toffs, Badminton Horse Trials has gotten a lot more egalitarian—but no less dangerous


The Royal Soap Opera

Oh, Brother! Queen Elizabeth always preferred the boorish Andrew to the sensitive Charles. Is the King finally getting revenge on his disgraced sibling by cutting him off financially?

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The Black Sheep of British Art An exhibition in London spotlights Richard Dadd, the Victorian artist who created most of his works while hospitalized after killing his father

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

With All Due Respect … Unfortunately, yes, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have forgotten their manners

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Comedy Classics

Fawlty Reasoning How has Fawlty Towers, one of the most offbeat, provincial, inappropriate, and heavily excoriated shows of all time, remained popular for 50 years? Nobody quite knows …

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Mystery

Murder, They Wrote This month’s best mystery books, podcasts, and TV series

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T.G.I.S.

The Attention-Whore Index Harry and Meghan are on display, Donald Trump is nodding off, and Elon Musk is always (far) right. Plus, the most peculiar news from around the world

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Film and Television

The Life Lessons of Shonda Rhimes The trailblazing creator of Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy, and Scandal is raising kids on her own, worrying about Donald Trump, and having trouble getting a date


Air Mail Diary

Spend It Like Beckham? The Soccer Star’s Money Scandal And other strange news about these curious days …

News of the World

The AIR MAIL Diary The British aren’t knocking! The Dutch aren’t braking! The Japanese are getting stranded! And other strange stories from around the globe …

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Royal Follies

The Princess Diaries Following their father’s arrest, their mother’s Middle Eastern exile, and their own appearance in the Epstein files, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie have been banned from Royal Ascot. Prince Harry to the rescue!

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Air Mail Diary

Mel Gibson Wants Your Forgiveness And other strange news about these curious days …

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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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THE ROYAL GRIEVANCE TOUR

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

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Great Lives

Dame Frances Campbell-Preston Harry Mount remembers his cousin, the Queen Mother’s oldest surviving lady-in-waiting

Air Mail Diary

Trump Admits He Is Depressing And other strange news about these curious days …


Greatest Escapes

Properly Knackered In which our reporter heads to Scotland and spas like the Queen (Elizabeth II)

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The Mean Girls Next Door How Tina Fey turned a self-help manual for anxious mothers into the quintessential teen movie of the early aughts

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