British Royal Family
Letter from the U.K.
The Moral Plea Behind Kate Middleton’s Cancer Disclosure
After weeks of conspiracy theories and online calls for her private medical information, the Princess of Wales offered an appeal for basic public decency.
Letter from the U.K.
King Charles’s Cancer Diagnosis Has Put a Nation on Edge
Other royals are stepping up to shake hands and cut ribbons. Prince Harry flew in from California. Visitors to Buckingham Palace wonder what comes next.
Cultural Comment
“The Crown” Presents the Last Days of Princess Diana
The people’s princess remains irresistible in both fiction and memory.
Letter from the U.K.
The Uneventful Success of King Charles’s Coronation
The careful preparation with which every detail had been mapped out in advance is a prerequisite for military maneuvers. A comparable precision had been applied to the minutiae of peace.
Shouts & Murmurs
What I Would Have Done Differently as Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
I know we can’t go back and unpublish “Spare,” but maybe my ideas will help Harry when he “writes” the sequel.
Daily Comment
Is Prince Harry’s “Spare” a Political Manifesto?
His own feelings about the value of the monarchy, he writes, are “complicated.”
Books
The Haunting of Prince Harry
Electrified by outrage—and elevated by a gifted ghostwriter—the blockbuster memoir “Spare” exposes more than Harry’s enemies.
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
King Charles III: A Modern Cinderella Story
The new monarch tries the crown on for size.
Daily Comment
Charles III and Climate Change in the U.K.
Not only is the new king supposed to stop pushing for green political policies; he faces a new Prime Minister who plans to reverse them.
Letter from the U.K.
Britain Wakes Up Without Queen Elizabeth II
There was a palpable shift of pressure, in a country now under the reign of a king.
Shouts & Murmurs
Racism Outshines Platinum Jubilee
Despite the palace’s best efforts to pretend it wasn’t there, people couldn’t stop marvelling at Racism’s stunning choices over the course of the weekend.
Postscript
Prince Philip’s Death and the Last Embers of British Stoicism
Embattled but unlamenting throughout his life, Philip would have argued that a shield is required, whatever one’s situation, to fend off any sudden blows and to steel us for the slough of boredom.
Double Take
The Wedding of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, in The New Yorker
A report from 1947 brims with details that didn’t make it into “The Crown.”
Daily Comment
The Passing of Prince Philip
What must he have thought when he reflected upon the accomplishments and the travails of the family and institution of which he was long the patriarch, if not ever the head?
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Torrey Peters on the Taboo of Detransitioning, and Britain Faces Its Meghan-and-Harry Crisis
The writer discusses how she wrote a best-selling novel about a subject most trans authors have tried to avoid. Plus, Simon Schama and Doreen St. Félix on race and the royals.
Q. & A.
Harry, Meghan, and the Pact Between the Royals and the Press
The British writer and campaigner Anthony Barnett says the royal controversy is evidence of a country in crisis.
Daily Comment
What Meghan and Harry’s Oprah Interview Clarifies for Americans—and Maybe the British, Too
Why did we ever find all of this so amusing?
Culture Desk
Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles?
Against a backdrop of Brexit turmoil and the Royal Family’s recent travails involving Prince Andrew, Charles has officially replaced Philip as the historically reënacted heartthrob royal of the moment.
Letter from the U.K.
The Royal Family Gets Drawn Deeper Into the Brexit Maelstrom
The goings on of the royals can almost always be relied upon to provide a piquant counterpoint to current events in Britain, even as the country prepares for an act of national self-harm.
Deep Cuts
Tom Murray’s Mad Day Out Photographing the Beatles
Rare photographs of the Fab Four, taken on a freewheeling day in London in 1968, are on display at Soho Contemporary Art.