Royals

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 …

By Jonathan Margolis

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Mystery

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

By Lisa Henricksson

Books

Eligible Bachelors

By James Kirchick

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Books

The Deformative Years

By Pico Iyer

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

By George Kalogerakis

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Best

Self-Portrait

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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

By Decca Aitkenhead

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Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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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!

By Kevin Maher

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Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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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

By Stuart Heritage

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

By James Marriott

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Great Lives

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

By Harry Mount

Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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Excerpt

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

By Bruce Handy

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Queen’s Gambit

Sloane Alone Turns out there’s no etiquette guide on how to behave when your wife leaves you to become the Queen of England

By Hilary Rose

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The Harry Diaries

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

By Stuart Heritage

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The Fall Guy

A Gold-Medal Stunt The Paris Olympics was one for the ages. Then, attention-seeking Tom Cruise jumped through the roof of the Stade de France

By Helen Rumbelow

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Books

Virginia Giuffre’s Last Words An explosive account of alleged abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew is seeing the light of day six months after Giuffre’s suicide

By Josie Ensor

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Little Britain

Female Trouble What happens when a prodigal son falls under the influence of his older, American wife? The Beckhams are experiencing their own version of Megxit

By Stuart Heritage

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Style

The Spy Who Dressed Me During World War II, one of London’s most prominent fashion designers led a secret life as head of an espionage unit operating behind German lines

By Henry R. Schlesinger

Little Britain

Who Will Follow BoJo the Clown? The fight to become the U.K.’s next P.M.—and the Queen’s 15th—is down to two very different candidates

By Patrick Kidd

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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

By George Kalogerakis

Megxit Follies

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

By Hilary Rose

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