On April 9, 1937, a man in Bucharest received an official notice that contained no sentence, no accusation, and no explanation. It simply stated that from that date forward, he was no longer a prince of Romania, no longer a member of the royal family, and no longer entitled to use the name he had … Read more
For nearly four years, Prince Philip lived almost entirely alone at Wood Farm, a five-bedroom farmhouse on the edge of the Sandringham estate. The property sat just two miles from the main house, where the Norfolk wind carries salt in from the wash and the trees seem to bend under the weight of old royal … Read more
Juleaften sagde min eneste søn til mig, at den bedste gave, jeg kunne give dem, var mit fravær. Jeg argumenterede ikke. Jeg betalte stille og roligt huset ud, solgte det i hemmelighed og tog en enkeltbillet til Florida. Michigan var 18 grader den nat. Men kulden udenfor var ingenting mod atmosfæren inde i min søns … Read more
On the morning of November 8th, 1965, Mark Sinclair, Dorothy Kilgallen’s personal hairdresser, let himself into her five-story townhouse on East 68th Street in Manhattan. He went to the third floor, where he had always done her hair. He found her sitting upright in bed. She was in the wrong bedroom. She was wearing the … Read more
On the damp morning of August 20, 1992, the royal family gathered for breakfast in the private dining room of Balmoral Castle. Silver trays held eggs, meat, and fish beside neatly ironed newspapers. When Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, and Prince Philip picked up that morning’s edition of the Daily Mirror, the room turned to … Read more
In 2005, federal agents arrested Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, the co-founder of the Black Mafia Family, bringing an end to one of the most sophisticated drug trafficking organizations in American history. The empire he built over more than a decade collapsed almost immediately. But long before the indictments and the 30-year prison sentence, a lesser-known … Read more
Můj svatební dort za osm tisíc pět set dolarů byl úplně zničený. Přesto to byly nejlépe utracené peníze v mém životě. Protože uprostřed té zářivě rudé spouště ležela moje vlastní sestra, která se zrovna chystala upadnout do hlubokého spánku. Předtím mě na mé vlastní svatbě schválně zdrogovala, aby ze mě před mými bohatými příbuznými udělala … Read more
On September 19, 1934, a man known in the streets as Ferdinando “The Shadow” Boccia entered a Brooklyn coffeehouse near 533 Metropolitan Avenue. According to a later investigator’s statement, shots were fired and Boccia was killed in or near that establishment in Brooklyn. Some court records suggest the date was a few days earlier, around … Read more
Paris, 1944 – Eine Kugelgarbe aus Maschinenpistolen zerfetzt die Stille der normannischen Landstraße, ein Citroën Traction Avant schleudert in den Graben, und mit ihm stirbt eine Frau, deren Name in Frankreich noch heute Schaudern auslöst. Violette Morris, einst gefeierte Sportikone, später als „Hyäne der Gestapo“ gefürchtet, ist tot – erschossen von Partisanen des Widerstands. Ihr … Read more
The story begins in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the spring of 1865. As the nation was healing from the Civil War, a widow named Margaret Holloway began behaving in ways that unsettled her small Ozark community. Margaret lived with her husband, Thomas, a respected merchant, in a modest two-story house east of the main springs. … Read more