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The photograph surfaced in 2019 at an estate sale in Providence, Rhode Island. Margaret Chen, a collector of antique images, was sorting through a box of uncatalogued photographs when she found it: a formal portrait from the early 1900s, sepia-toned, showing a woman in a dark Victorian dress seated in an ornate wooden chair. In … Read more

On a February afternoon in 1996, a videographer captured a couple arguing in Washington Square Park. The woman was Caroline Bessette, the man John F. Kennedy Jr. , and the footage showed him yanking an engagement ring from her finger while she screamed and cried. The images ran in the New York Daily News and … Read more

Princess Margaret spent 71 years as the second daughter of the British monarchy, forever one rung below her sister, Queen Elizabeth II. For the people who worked for her, that gap was felt every single day. Peter Russell served in the Royal Household for 14 years, from 1954 to 1968. At formal events, his job … Read more

At four in the morning in April 1996, Palm Beach police found Marla Maples under a lifeguard stand with her bodyguard, a man whose salary came from her husband’s company. No arrests were made. No charges were filed. Both denied a sexual relationship then, and both would keep denying it for decades. The tabloids called … Read more

Jag heter Mabel Jennings och är åttiofyra år gammal. Jag har levt ett långt, stillsamt liv i en liten stad utanför Topeka i Kansas. De flesta här känner mig som kvinnan som odlar hortensior, bakar alldeles för många pajer och alltid lämnar lampan på i farstun ifall någon behöver en trygg plats att landa på. … Read more

The collection opens with a curious mixture of glamour and gravity—Carrie Fisher and her stunt double relaxing between takes on the set of Return of the Jedi in the early 1980s, Mata Hari posing as an exotic dancer in 1906, and James Dean at a Los Angeles party with Ursula Andress in 1955. John Lennon … Read more

High in the Bavarian Alps, on the Obersalzberg, Adolf Hitler kept a private mountain retreat called the Berghof. Around it lay the homes of his top ministers—figures like Martin Bormann, Hermann Göring, and Albert Speer—along with guesthouses for visiting officers and dignitaries, sprawling SS barracks for his personal protection, and all the supporting infrastructure of … Read more

On August 18, 1994, a heavy-set man in his mid-forties climbed into a small black Renault outside his home on Swan Grove in Ranelagh, a quiet neighborhood on Dublin’s south side. His errand was ordinary to the point of banality: returning a rented video, an action movie called Delta Force 3. He never reached the … Read more

By late December 1944, the Allied campaign in Northwest Europe was not only fighting the German army but also a bitter internal crisis that threatened to tear the alliance apart. At the center of it stood three men: Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, American 12th Army Group commander Omar Bradley, and British 21st Army Group … Read more

In the fall of 1945, with World War II just ended, two of America’s most legendary generals met and shared a conversation that history would largely forget. George Patton, fresh from his triumphant campaign against Nazi Germany, and Douglas MacArthur, who had spent decades in Asia, represented two completely different worlds. Their exchange about China’s … Read more