Queen for twenty-six years from 1910 and queen mother for another seventeen after George V’s death in 1936, Mary was to her contemporaries a marmoreal figure, the same upright jewel-laden person, ...

More than five months after Texas real estate agent Suzanne Simpson vanished in a wealthy area of San Antonio, attorneys are still sorting out evidence as her husband faces a murder case and her ...

The devastating wildfires across the Los Angeles area have put additional pressure on California’s already-strained insurance market, as well as the FAIR Plan - the “provider of last resort.” ...

Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism from LGBTQ+ advocates and Democratic lawmakers after seeming to say he doesn’t support transgender athletes participating in women's sports on his new ...

I suppose there are still two opinions of Wallis Simpson, the woman whose relationship with Edward VIII precipitated the king’s abdication in December 1936. Was she the woman who ‘pinched our king’, ...

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