Why the Royal Family Didn’t Want Elton John to Play at Princess Diana’s Funeral

The Royal Family tried to stop Princess Diana’s friend from performing at her funeral because they thought it would be “too sentimental.”

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The Best Chinese New Year Beauty Launches To Usher in the Year Of The Ox

These limited-edition beauty products came through dripping in red and gold for the upcoming Chinese New Year, and are sure to standout on your vanity shelf.

It’s time for a proper retelling of the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

According to Variety, Julius Onah is set to direct a biopic centering on the life and career of the late New York artist, with Cyrano star Kelvin Harrison Jr. set to star. The film marks the second time Harrison and Onah have wo

We’re already about a week into 2022, which means in addition to enjoying a few stocking stuffers and covetable holiday gifts, you probably also have some extra cash—and maybe a few gift cards—burning a hole in your wallet. Thankfully, some of the top beauty brands and retailers like and are making

The long-awaited second season of Emily in Paris finally arrived last month. By now, you’ve likely binged all 10 episodes. And with the newest chapter comes even more of Emily’s colorful, bold, and, at times, polarizing fashion looks. However, her makeup looks stay pretty true to classic French beau

In 2022, clean beauty is about to get a whole lot more luxe. Chanel just announced a brand-new skincare, makeup, and fragrance brand called , and it’s all about naturally derived formulas, sustainable packaging, and ingredient transparency. But that’s not all: For the first time, the nine new produc

Few animated films have inspired a cult following quite like Studio Ghibli’s 2001 Spirited Away. The Hayao Miyazaki-directed movie was released to universal acclaim more than two decades ago, and became the highest-grossing film in Japanese history and the first hand-drawn and non-English movie to w

Unlike ready-to-wear, jewelry, and shoes, bag trends tend to be a bit more transient. (Jacquemus’s SS18 mini bag was everywhere until it wasn’t, pillow bags nearly defined 2019, and 2020’s extreme logomania eventually gave way to restraint.) Of course, there are myriad classic exceptions to the rule

Though Kate Middleton never met her husband’s mother, the late Princess Diana, she has gracefully followed in her footsteps in more ways than one.

The Princess of Wales was famous for being friendly and approachable with everyone, and so is her daughter-in-law. Celebs like Billie Eilish and Emma Wa

Winter’s first snow is expected in Brooklyn this week, which means, at last, it’s Moonstruck season. Flurries falling on Cher’s dark curls is the defining image of the 1987 movie, which saw a fresh wave of attention in the pandemic’s early months. The scene is a romantic tug-of-war. Cher plays a boo

By its sixth season, This Is Us has mastered how to connect its characters’ adolescent experiences with their adult emotions. Everything from days at the local pool to a Thanksgiving spent watching Police Academy 3 have foreshadowed major storylines for the present-day Pearsons. The NBC drama’s fina

As it became clear he had lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump attempted to exploit a 135-year-old law to cling to power. The Electoral Count Act was put in place in 1887 to prevent constitutional crises like the one sparked by the controversial 1876 contest between Rutherford B. Hayes

To see the headlines tell it this week, it was as if Silicon Valley had been reformed once and for all—as if the tech world, which has led to so much societal chaos, which has been blamed for the rise in bullying and teen suicide, which has augmented fake news and and conspiracy theories and lured b

January 6 marks the first anniversary of the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol in which bands of pro-Trump insurgents tried and failed to halt the certification of the election of President Joe Biden. In December, MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, a sometime Vanity Fair contributor, along with producer Pr

We all have resolutions. Resolutions to stop doing this or start doing that. Resolutions to be somehow harder, better, faster, stronger. Resolutions to return to the resolution question around April. The modern world is set up so that even abstaining from resolutions on anti-personal-growth terms is

As the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol approaches, at least one American will not be commemorating the day in the manner in which he had hoped. That American is former president Donald Trump, who previously had big plans for the occasion involving a press conference at Mar-a-

In the months leading up to Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, Fox News host Sean Hannity used his massive media platform to openly help his “friend” defeat Hillary Clinton––an approach he justified by insisting that he is not a journalist and does not have to abide by journalistic ethics. “I’m n

Take Jon Stewart and J.K. Rowling off the bingo card of random 2022 celebrity feuds. In a lengthy video clip posted Wednesday on Twitter, Stewart clarified his viral remarks about the portrayal of goblins in Harry Potter, stating firmly that he does not think Rowling is anti-Semitic—nor does he thin

According to ProPublica, Wren told another rally organizer that she had “parked” funds with dark money groups supporting the event, and she routed approximately $150,000 from Fancelli to the Republican Attorneys General Association’s Rule of Law Defense Fund, which later purchased a robocall telling