[ad_1] “We smile while our faces burn, we love it so. Because we know magic is happening, just like in a fairy tale.” By the time Mirabelle Nour—the narrator of Mona Awad’s latest novel, Rouge (Marysue Rucci Books)—speaks this gauzy ode to exfoliation into the mirror, she is already in […]
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Queen Camilla Announces a Star-Studded Lineup for Her Inaugural Literary Festival
[ad_1] In February, Queen Camilla carried her passion for promoting literature onto the throne when she relaunched the book club she founded in 2021 as a charity called The Queen’s Reading Room and set a date for the organization’s first annual in-person literary festival. Now, the Queen’s Reading Room has […]
Lupita Nyong’o on the First-Ever Sulwe Day and the Power of Fantasy—From Storybooks to ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
[ad_1] Where in the world is Lupita Nyong’o? This time next month, at least in fictional terms, she will find herself in high-tech paradise, reprising her role as Nakia in the anticipated Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. (The Marvel sequel, directed by Ryan Coogler, arrives in theaters November 11.) But for […]
How Prince Charles Sought Revenge Against Princess Diana and the Palace
[ad_1] The fall release of Prince Harry’s yet-to-be-titled autobiography is allegedly making Buckingham Palace very nervous. Even Prince Harry’s statement about the book, set to be published by Penguin Random House, could be seen as a shot against the palace. “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born,” […]
Princess Diana Revamped Her Life—And Her Style—After Her Divorce
[ad_1] In December 1992, after years of living very separate lives in private, Princess Diana and Prince Charles finally announced their separation to the world. From this moment, something shifted in Diana. The conservative dresses from her formal duties were replaced with professional trouser suits, while shoulder bags that hung […]
Inside Traitor King and the Case That Edward VIII Was a Nazi Sympathizer
[ad_1] In April 1945, less than a month before the end of World War II in Europe, an American army captain found an abandoned vehicle with a trove of German government documents, one of which was signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Nazi foreign minister who would later be executed […]