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Be it ever so palatial, there’s no place like home — If you’re a billionairess like this lady
House• January 24, 2022.The 54-room, three-story penthouse on Fifth Avenue, built for a legendary American heiress on land replacing the mansion she owned and now divided into nine separate and spacious residences...

American Friends of Versailles Study Marie Antoinette’s Hapsburg Legacy in Prague, Part II
Social History• January 19, 2022.Part II of Sharon Hoge’s coverage of the American Friends of Versailles visiting Prague and its historical relationship to Marie Antoinette whose Hapsburg mother was Queen of the empire...

Palm Beach Confidential: The Windsors and The FBI (1940-1942)
Palm Beach• December 16, 2021.Augustus Mayhew recounts the time the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were courted in Palm Beach where the FBI files were thick with confidential letters and telegrams claiming the Windsors were suspected Nazi spies, making for a delicious, if not illusory, chapter of Palm Beach’s social history...