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Plus, Tatler magazine amends bitchy Kate profile, Meghan pays tribute to RBG, and Princess Anne shows mask chic.
Tom Sykes is a writer and journalist, and he edits The Royalist blog for The Daily Beast. Tom has worked for many publications, including a stint as a nightlife reporter and gossip columnist for the New York Post. He has written several books, most recently helping John Taylor of Duran Duran write and edit his autobiography, published by Dutton. Tom lives in London and Ireland.
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‘DOUBLE STANDARD’
Sources tell The Daily Beast that the royal family is “very annoyed” by Harry and Meghan's Netflix deal. “There is a feeling that their word cannot be trusted at the palace.”
TIP AND TAX
Exclusive venues around the world are trying to figure out what their business model looks like in a world seemingly set to be defined by reduced capacity.
LOOKING DOWN ON US
The indulgent life of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who lives in a luxury hotel in Germany with a harem of 20 concubines, is hard to swallow as Thailand plunges into recession.
FOR ART’S SAKE
The Colony Room, beloved by artists from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, was a byword for debauchery. But when it closed, a million dollars worth of art vanished off its walls.
‘COMPLETE PACKAGE’
Netflix chief bigs up Harry and Meghan, the royal Christmas may be canceled, Prince Andrew's “crisis talks” with the queen, and Princess Diana’s childhood tears for her absent mom.
CABIN FEVER
The summer of COVID has seen the busiest August for brokerage yacht sales in five years, with 32 superyachts changing hands on the secondhand market last month alone.
THAT’S RICH
The wife of media tycoon Conrad Black, who was jailed for financial misconduct and pardoned by Donald Trump, gives a frank survey of the gilded life in new memoir.
DISGUSTING
Rumors of a horrific competition among rich and entitled students at a top British university shine a light on deep-seated sexism at some elite institutions.
FREE RIDE
Britain’s Serious Fraud Office has obtained emails showing that the prime minister of Kazakhstan was taken on a luxury trip to Disneyland Paris by mining oligarchs.
