Royals

View With a Room

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

By Rachel Johnson

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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

By Eleanore Kelly

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?

By Will Lloyd

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The Kids Aren’t Alright

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

By Stuart Heritage

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

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Books

Eligible Bachelors

By James Kirchick

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Books

The Deformative Years

By Pico Iyer

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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

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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

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 …

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

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

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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

By James Marriott

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Books

Mother Knows Best

By Joanne Kaufman

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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

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Air Mail Diary

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

By George Kalogerakis

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Greatest Escapes

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

By Ashley Baker

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

The Harry Diaries

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

By Stuart Heritage

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