Elizabeth Taylor: Ugly Duckling?

Actress Elizabeth Taylor had stunning beauty. She was such a gorgeous little girl that, when people would see her for the first time, they would gasp in astonishment, staring at her sapphire eyes wreathed in thick black lashes and the shiny black hair framing her porcelain face.  ”What a pretty child !” they would exclaim, prompting [...]

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Natalie Wood: Screams in the Night

According to a witness whose account has never been disclosed, Hollywood star Natalie Wood  was screaming for help as she drowned. Retired stockbroker Marilyn Wayne said she tried to report the star’s ‘last desperate cries for help’ but was ignored. Los Angeles police last week said ‘substantial new evidence’ has led them to reopen their [...]

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Is Kate Middleton Pregnant?

Tabloids are abuzz with speculation that Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is expecting her first child with Prince William. Buckingham Palace refuses to deny or confirm such a statement but there are hints that there may be some truth to the rumor. It is all started with Kate refused to sample some peanut paste [...]

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Natalie Wood: Death Case Reopened

How did actress Natalie Wood, famous for her star turn in Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, end up drowning off Santa Catalina Island, California, in 1981 while boating with actor husband Robert Wagner and costar Christopher Walker? Though officially ruled an accident at the time, the circumstances that led to her death and the [...]

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Elizabeth Taylor Was a Mutant

Just after actress Elizabeth Taylor was born, her parents were ushered into the doctor’s office and told that their newborn daughter had a mutation.   ”Well, that sounded just awful,” her mother Sara Taylor said later,”a mutation.” The mutation was not a deformity, however. It meant that little Elizabeth was born with double rows of eyelashes. Sara breathed a little easier to [...]

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Elizabeth Taylor & the Cobra Watch

Christie’s auction house is selling screen sensation Elizabeth Taylor’s complete jewelry collection in New York City on Dec. 13-16, 2011. Among the pieces to be sold is the diamond, emerald, and gold ”snake” brackelet watch by Bulgari, ca. 1961, shown below: Readers: For more on The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor Auction by Christie’s, click here and here. Readers: For more [...]

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Prince Charles Likes His Shoelaces Ironed

Not in Front of the Corgis,  a new book to be released in June 2012 by biographer Brian Hoey, gives us a “behind closed doors” look at the British Royal Family.  Here’s a preview of a section on Prince Charles and Camilla: Prince Charles employs 133 staff to look after him and Camilla, more than 60 of [...]

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The Queen Mum: One Tough Cookie

“The Queen Mum,” born Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900-2002), was the beloved British Royal Family matriarch from 1953 until her death at age 101. Of Scottish birth, she served as Queen consort to her husband King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, when their daughter Princess Elizabeth took the throne as Elizabeth II. During the [...]

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