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Shaken up in a spiritual blender

After lots of tears, Anna Pasternak and her teenage daughter Daisy resolve their generational conflict and establish a renewed bond on a women-only retreat…

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I was moved by Kate’s cancer video – but should she be controlling the narrative?

News that the Princess of Wales has completed her cancer treatment is a welcome relief, but is a glossy, Hollywood-style home movie the best way to reveal …

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The unseen letter that shows Harry may find it hard to escape a lifetime of unhappiness

As rumours swirl of Prince Harry’s ‘comeback campaign’, royal history and tradition tell us that there is only one path available to him – and poss…

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A Swiss sleep retreat working to cure insomnia

A spa has launched a new science-based sleep reset. Insomniac Anna Pasternak was a willing (and very tired) guinea pig

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The vital lesson William and Harry should learn from history

A new biography of George VI and Elizabeth draws inevitable similarities between the destructive influence of Wallis Simpson and Meghan Markle on monarchy …

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What happened to Princess Diana’s aunt – and why it’s now normal for the aristocracy

The late Mary Roche sounds like a cracking character, but the small will she left behind should not be surprising

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Fasting for Christmas? Tatler goes cold turkey with a 10-day therapeutic reset at a spa in Germany

Hungrey for change? Anna Pasternak celebrates her 'best Christmas ever' while staving off the festive pounds on an unconventional winter break w…

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Omid Scobie Endgame review: ‘The real royal villain is William’

It's the eagerly awaited inside story of royal rivalries at the heart of the House of Windsor, and Anna Pasternak is the first to review it…

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What Meghan and Harry could learn from Edward and Wallis Simpson

As rumours about their marriage swirl in the US press, it is to a fellow American and another royal couple in exile that the duke and duchess might turn to…

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Who is the real Camilla,The Reluctant Queen?

She’s been elevated from wicked stepmother to the newly crowned Queen. But who is the real Camilla? Anna Pasternak investigates…

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Harry is not alone. Being born a royal ‘spare’ has always fuelled rage and resentment

Outpourings of resentment from the Duke of Sussex are the latest examples of retaliation from history’s disgruntled royals

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Rise and fall of daddy's girl

Anna Pasternak knew the calculating Ghislaine Maxwell at Oxford. A new biography reveals the sadist streak she inherited from her father

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Prince Harry needs a history lesson from Edward VIII

Like his great-great uncle, the Duke of Sussex left his role in The Firm for a new life – and there are striking similarities

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"COMMENT… Meghan had everything Wallis Simpson was denied, but still it wasn’t enough

Despite her appalling treatment, the Duchess of Windsor tried to bring the royals back together

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The real reason Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend's love affair was doomed from the start

Despite The Crown's depiction of a reunion in the 1990s, it is too simplistic to blame the late Queen for her sister's failed romance

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‘It took a long time to realise I felt manipulated and used by Diana’

As controversy reigns over The Crown, the author of Princess in Love looks back at the frenzied furore that surrounded her book

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Queen Elizabeth’s willingness to forgive is an example to us all

Other royals can learn a great deal about healing family rifts from her exemplary actions and sensitivity

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How Camilla Parker-Bowles went from public enemy number one to national treasure

As she proved during an event with her Netflix alter ego, the bullet-proof future Queen Consort has a sense of humour

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Our ancestors were giants of Russian literature – what would they have made of Putin’s war?

Leo Tolstoy and Boris Pasternak are hugely important to Russia’s cultural history, but Ukraine’s struggle today would trouble them…

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Inside Royal Lodge: what Prince Andrew’s days in exile will look like

What once was the Duke of York’s sanctuary must now feel hollow – a haunting reminder of a gilded life once lived

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Royal rebel: Why it’s time to reconsider the enigmatic Princess Margaret

The perception is that she drank too much and partied too hard but, behind her façade, the Queen’s sister was devout, kind and insecure

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Prince Charles and Camilla – a story of love conquering all

Their turbulent fifty-year royal love story at times looked uncertain as to whether it would have a happy ending

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The Gilded Age shows it’s not just the British who have great historical stories

Julian Fellowes’s tale of 1880s New York channels hit period dramas like Bridgerton and Downton Abbey but with a fresh transatlantic spin

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Libidinous toffs on TV are a tonic for the rest of us

We couldn't get enough of Bridgerton and soon we can sate ourselves with A Very British Scandal…

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How Prince Andrew became the Queen’s impossible choice

In stripping her son of his titles, Her Majesty did what was necessary to protect the institution – a decision her grandmother also faced.

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Ghislaine Maxwell and the complicated love life of a she-devil

For her entire life, the former socialite has endeavoured to please and placate difficult men – and where has it got her? Alone in prison

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The fall of Ghislaine Maxwell: How the socialite I knew thought she was untouchable

Glamorous, cold and calculating, I saw her dazzle – but she was never a girls’ girl and it was always men who defined her

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Why we can't resist an aristocracy sex scandal

With A Very British Scandal beginning tonight, we can once again revel in the salacious affairs of the upper class

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The Eye of the Tiger

Former employee and close friend, Anna Pasternak, recalls her time working with the man so affectionately known to his many friends, simply as 'Tiger'.

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My daughter's made it onto Tatler’s list of eligible singletons – I'm not jealous, I'm thrilled

The list, though still pulsing with wealth and privilege, is no longer the preserve of the landed gentry – and shows Daisy has eclipsed me

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Is this Meghan's first political power move?

The Duchess's serious style during her New York visit has royal watchers asking: is she dressing for the job she has or the one she wants?

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The new old way to spa: Is a traditional Russian banya the secret to longer life?

Humidity, ice buckets, birch branches, felt hats and vodka – this ancient Russian ritual is growing in popularity in the UK

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The secret letters that reveal the hidden warmth of the Queen’s grandmother

She was said to have ice in her veins, but newly-discovered correspondence shows a side to Queen Mary that contrasts her steely reputation

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Prince Harry should take a leaf out of Edward VIII’s book

The Duke of Windsor published his book 15 years after his abdication, with no blame or bitterness within

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Could a 'grief retreat' help me get over the loss of a loved-one?

Her mother died nine years ago, but Anna Pasternak says the pain is as raw as it ever was – so she decided to try a residential course…

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Ghislaine Maxwell: out of the shadows and into the spotlight

A new documentary promises to shed light on the Manhattan socialite whose association with Jeffrey Epstein helped turn her into a pariah…

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I spoke up for the Queen at Oxford's debate… and was jeered

Could the ugly mood in student circles against the monarchy be a knock-on effect of Meghan and Harry’s ‘truth bombs’?

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When students are passing motions to abolish the monarchy, I fear for the future of the Royal family

After defending Her Majesty at the Oxford Union Debating Society, I worry there's now a genuine vulnerability to this venerable institution

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Prince Harry’s lonely return home without Meghan is royal history repeating itself

As Prince Harry arrives back in England for Prince Philip's funeral, there are echoes of the Duke of Windsor's journey 70 years earlier.

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What Meghan can learn from Mrs Simpson's 'tell-all' TV interview

Ahead of the Sussexes' Oprah grilling, Anna Pasternak looks back at another TV appearance by overseas royals that left the nation agog

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Naim Attallah, the Eighties literary 'It' girl set, and me

His approach may have been ‘gloriously’ non-PC, but Anna Pasternak adored working for the Quartet Books chairman

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Lord Mountbatten: Behind the myth of Uncle Dickie, 'fixer to the royals'

Lord Mountbatten was close to the royals, but his role was a complex one

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Diana, Hewitt and Me

Anna Pasternak on Diana and the secret letters which informed her explosive 1994 biography

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The Lost Note

The lost note I believe is touching proof love DID conquer all for the Windsors:

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What I learnt from checking in to The ‘immunity hotel’

After spending two weeks at a fasting clinic, which purports to boost immunity, our sceptical writer had a change of heart

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The Sussexes

Finding Freedom' suggests the Sussexes have not yet burned their bridges

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Catherine the Great

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge is crowned Catherine the Great on the July/August cover

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Mum loves our dogs more than me…

Lockdown has proved Mum loves our dogs more than me (as she's happy to admit)

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Does Meghan risk becoming more unpopular

Does Meghan risk becoming even more unpopular than Wallis Simpson?

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Life with Wallis Simpson

The Windsors' former private secretary, Johanna Schutz, shares her memories of working for the exiled couple for the first time

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To stop history repeating

To stop history repeating, Meghan must learn from Wallis Simpson

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Is Meghan Markle the new Wallis Simpson

In light of the recent ‘abdication’ – Tatler returns to a piece published last year that made comparisons between Meghan and a particular American di…

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The Sussexes should see the Windsors

The Sussexes should see the Windsors’ fate as a cautionary tale

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What life will be like for Prince Andrew

What life will be like for Prince Andrew as a royal outcast

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My husbands table manners

My husband's table manners almost broke our marriage’

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No amount of money can inure

No amount of money can inure against the pain of losing a child': the tragic death of Iris Goldsmith

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Camilla’s wink

Camilla's wink perfectly sums up her joyously refreshing approach to royal duty

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Inside Edward VIII

Inside Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson's French party house – now on sale for £5.6 million

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Buckingham Palace has away of dealing with

Buckingham Palace has a way of dealing with family feuds… and ‘emotional’ royals never fare well

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How Wallis Simpson reacted

How Wallis Simpson Reacted When King Edward VIII Revealed His Plans to Abdicate

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The real Wallis Simpson: Frogmore's other American duchess

A profoundly meaningful pilgrimage for Anna…

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Mother's Day: 'It was savage grief pushing through'

Still grieving the death of her mother, novelist Anna Pasternak had a 'childish' tantrum on Mothering Sunday over the flowers her daughter had given her

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