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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 …

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

Air Mail Diary

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

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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?

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The Royals

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

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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

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!


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

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

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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

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T.G.I.S.

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

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

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Style

John and Alexandra Brodie’s Holiday Gift Guide With the help of his middle-school daughter, the former editor of Maisonette and editor of Todd Snyder rounds up the most charming cadeaux for tots, tykes, tweens, and teens

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The Royal Soap Opera

The Sussex Circus Is Back Harry and Meghan’s mouthpiece has a book out. Spoiler alert: it’s grovelingly kind to them but brutal to everyone else

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Restaurant Life

Arrivederci, San Lorenzo Princess Diana played out her love life at the London institution, but after 40 years of being the center of the scene, it’s closing

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The Restaurant World

The New Swampland? Since 2020, branches of restaurants from New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and elsewhere have opened in Miami. But the bubble may be ready to pop

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?


The Writer at Work

The Bard of Berkshire Best-selling novelist Robert Harris—his books have sold more than 10 million copies—still writes 800 words a day. Just don’t expect any sex scenes

Not Your Father’s Ghostwriter Unfortunately for the royal family, J. R. Moehringer, Prince Harry’s ghostwriter, specializes in damaged father-son relationships

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