ROYALS EXTRA BY SALLY BEDELL SMITH

Part Two: The Candid Recollections of Princess Diana’s “Mother I Would Have Liked to Have Had”

Diana reminded Lucia Flecha de Lima of Marilyn Monroe, the princess was a “flirt” and had “a lot of sex appeal”

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August 2025

Part One: The Candid Recollections of Princess Diana’s “Mother I Would Have Liked to Have Had”

In a series of conversations, Lucia Flecha de Lima shared observations about Diana, her family, her marriage, her friends, and the press

Aug 31 • 

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EXCLUSIVE: The Missing Portrait of the Duke of Windsor in His Garter Robes

Private glimpses of the former King's opulent life in exile with the Duchess of Windsor

Aug 17 • 

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PART TWO: The Good Mitford and the Very Bad Mitford, Members of Britain's Most Remarkable Family

"Outrageous," this summer's hit television series about the aristocratic Mitfords, recalled my interview with Diana Mosley

Aug 3 • 

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July 2025

PART ONE: The Good Mitford and the Very Bad Mitford, Members of Britain's Most Remarkable Family

"Outrageous," this summer's hit television series about the aristocratic Mitfords, prompted memories of my conversations with the Duchess of Devonshire…

Jul 27 • 

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The Art of the Tour: King Charles's Traveling Painters

What's behind the new Buckingham Palace exhibition of artists who captured scenes from seventy royal tours over forty years

Jul 13 • 

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Princess Diana and Her Mother Confessor

In her mid-eighties, Lady Elsa Bowker bonded with the thirty-two-year-old princess during her turbulent love affair with Oliver Hoare, a magnetic and…

Jul 6 • 

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June 2025

Part Three: An Insider’s View of the Royal Family

With parties at Dudley House, quiet dinners with close friends, and celebrations for her 80th and 90th birthdays, everything was going happily for the…

Jun 29 • 

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Part Two: An Insider's View of the Royal Family

After grieving for Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, the Queen seemed like a new person at age seventy-five and took joy from the union of William…

Jun 22 • 

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A Royals Extra Brief: Leon Krier, RIP

Leon Krier, the New Urbanist architect who helped King Charles III create Poundbury, died this week at age seventy-nine

Jun 20 • 

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An Insider's View of the Royal Family

Part One of a three-part series: The late Lady Elizabeth Anson, Queen Elizabeth II's cousin and confidante, recounted the anguish of Charles and Diana's…

Jun 16 • 

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May 2025

When Princess Catherine Launched Her First Royal Navy Warship, She Followed a Proud Royal Tradition

Queen Elizabeth and her teenage daughter Princess Elizabeth christened ships both before and near the end of World War II

May 31 • 

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