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When Prince Philip was buried in April 2021, COVID restrictions had reduced the congregation at St. George's Chapel to just 30 mourners. Every seat became a statement. The Queen sat alone. There were children, grandchildren, and three German relatives flown in under quarantine exemptions. Near the back of that small gathering sat one person who … Read more

Sir Alan Lascelles, universally known as Tommy, spent a lifetime learning that royal people making up their own minds could be extremely dangerous. By the summer of 1946, Princess Elizabeth had made up her mind about Philip. Lascelles noticed both facts. He was not a romantic man by profession. He served as King George VI's … Read more

When Aristotle Onassis died in Paris on March 15, 1975, he had spent much of his final year trying to end his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as painfully as the law would allow. The wedding photographs from Scorpios told a different story. So did the public statements. The documentary record tells the truth. The … Read more

When Jacqueline Kennedy stepped onto the private Greek island of Skorpios on October 20, 1968, the world saw a fairy tale. The most photographed widow on earth was marrying Aristotle Onassis, a shipping magnate 23 years her senior. The wedding was treated as a cultural phenomenon, a merger of American political fame and Greek commercial … Read more

On the morning of November 8, 1965, Mark Sinclair, Dorothy Kilgallen's personal hairdresser, let himself into the five-story townhouse at 45 East 68th Street on Manhattan's Upper East Side using a key she had given him years earlier. He went to the third floor, where he had always done her hair. He found her sitting … Read more

On the afternoon of October 20, 1968, on a small island in the Ionian Sea, a Greek Orthodox priest prepared a candlelit chapel for a wedding. The most photographed woman in the world had told almost no one she would be there. The chapel was called Panagitsa, the little church of the Holy Virgin. Rain … Read more