“There is something so primal about being a woman. Women create life,” Vanessa Kirby says, speaking on a recent evening from her home in London. She zooms out, as if taking in the astronaut view: “It’s like, the earth is called Mother Earth.” Kirby certainly can relate on a cinematic […]
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Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s Tortured Relationship
The story of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, is not that of star-crossed lovers. Continuously recounted in film, television, tell-all books, and the gossip pages, it is a tale of a woefully mismatched married couple, lauded as the English monarchy’s future, whose divorce almost unraveled the British Crown. […]
“It Would Be Torturous”: Why King Charles Has No Plans to Watch Season 5 of The Crown
When I sat down with the queen’s late cousin Lady Elizabeth Anson several years ago as The Crown was enjoying the peak of its popularity, I asked her whether the queen had watched the Netflix series. Surrounded by her prized collection of ornamental eggs in the sitting room of her […]
The Crown: How to Dress Elizabeth Debicki’s Princess Diana in the Neflix Series
Netflix’s The Crown has spared no expense to recreate the royal family’s best known fashions over course of its four-year run. From the ornate details of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation dress in the series’ first season to replicating Princess Diana’s indelible 1981 wedding dress—complete with a record-breaking 25-foot taffeta train—in […]
“The Crown”: More Than $200,000 Worth of Jewels Reportedly Stolen From the Set of the Netflix Series
The Royal Family have been the victims of a robbery overnight: but it’s not Her Majesty the Queen et al who are affected, it is instead the cast and crew of The Crown, who are tasked with bringing the ins and outs of the Windsors’ lives to the small screen. […]