Today, we know the six wives of Henry VIII more by the phrase "divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived" than we do by their own names and legacies. But what would they look like today?
Ferrari infamously kept a secret love child, yet few know about his real secret. The one that would have truly destroyed his life.
Empress Charlotte’s exquisite beauty made jaws drop all around the globe—but her admirers didn’t realize that her alluring face hid an utterly deranged mind.
Although Henry tried to have all portraits of and references to Anne Boleyn destroyed after her execution, if you look up in the carved arches of Hampton’s Great Hall, you can still see the one thing left behind—and it’s utterly heartbreaking.
Patricia Highsmith was most famous for her sharp thrillers like The Talented Mr Ripley, but her personal life was ten times more disturbing than her fiction.
Carol Wayne was a beloved regular on the “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”—but she tragically passed at the young age of 42.
The death of Jeannette May Rothschild has been a mystery for decades—and in 2024, the Italian government reopened the case.
When American heiress Mary Curzon married the Viceroy of India, it was supposed to be a fairy tale—but it was really a horror story.
To prepare for his role as a tough cop in The French Connection, Gene Hackman rode around with police officers. He terrified even them.
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