Royal London, International Capital of Regal Schadenfreude by Our Man in the Fog, somewhere between Heathrow’s perfume-drenched duty-free and the £18 pint zone The moment the plane drops below cloud cover, the city unfolds like a gilt-edged pop-up book: Big Ben’s scaffolding finally gone, the Shard pretending it’s Tokyo, and somewhere behind those red-brick chimneys…
The Duchess of Kent’s Quiet Rebellion: How a Royal Non-Entity Just Became the World’s Most Useful Monarch By the time you’ve finished your second espresso in whatever time zone you’re pretending to care about, Her Royal Highness Katharine, Duchess of Kent, has already done more for global soft diplomacy than most parliaments manage in a…
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, Is the Last Global Fairy Tale Standing—And That Should Terrify Us All By Our Correspondent in Self-Imposed Exile from Several Commonwealth Realms Somewhere between the collapse of the British pound and the collapse of British politics lies Catherine, Princess of Wales—still smiling that serene, orthodontically perfect smile while the rest…
