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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was born on a dining room table in a villa on the Greek island of Corfu in June 1921, into a royal family that was about to lose everything. On paper he was a prince of Greece and a prince of Denmark, titles that sounded magnificent and meant almost … Read more

When Tisa Farrow died in her sleep in Rutland, Vermont, on the morning of January 10, 2024, she was 72 years old. The funeral home obituary described her not by the films she once made but by the 25 years she spent in an operating room. It also carried a single line from her family: … Read more

On 1 October 1913, inside the family chapel at Knole, a young woman in a white wedding dress married the son of a diplomat in front of just 26 guests. The ceremony was deliberately small for a house of such scale. The bride was 21 years old. Her name was Vita Sackville-West. The house she … Read more

For more than two decades, Andrew Parker Bowles lived inside a marriage that the whole country eventually felt free to gossip about. He was a decorated cavalry officer, a brigadier, and in the shorthand the public settled on, simply Camilla's first husband. On the evening of June 29, 1994, the Prince of Wales sat beneath … Read more

On the morning of October 10, 1918, the RMS Leinster left Kingstown Harbour on its regular mail run to Holyhead. Among the passengers were three women from the same household: Lady Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton, the family cook Martha Bridge, and a servant, Eleanor Strachan. Somewhere east of the Kish Bank, a German torpedo from UB-123 … Read more

On the afternoon of February 6, 1952, at Sagana Lodge in the foothills of Mount Kenya, a 30-year-old man in khaki walked into a room where his wife was resting and told her that her father was dead. The room was simple, with white walls and wooden shutters. Outside, the equatorial light was still bright. … Read more