King Charles’s Lonely Childhood; a Jewelry-World Murder; the Tumultuous Rise and Fall of ‘Peyton Place’

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive View in your browser | Update your preferences     It's been a hectic news cycle as of late! Take a break and dive into the VF Archive with tales of King Charles, the rebellious housewife behind Peyton Place, and more.   The Lonely Heir Throughout his childhood, King Charles struggled to please his parents—a distant Queen Elizabeth and a domineering Prince Philip—and to fill a role that was against his nature. In an adaptation from her biography of the king, Sally Bedell Smith chronicles Charles's search for affection, the brutal bullying he endured at school, and the unlikely place where he found a sense of belonging. R E A D  M O R E »     Murder at Sutton Place When the surrogate son—and alleged lover—of New York's "jeweler to the stars" was involved in a brutal killing, some of the city's rich and powerful were entangled in a tabloid drama of sex, drugs, and betrayal that landed three men behind bars. But what really happened the night of Joey Comunale's murder? R E A D  M O R E »     Expats in Wonderland Whether hosting a Paris bash for Stravinsky's latest ballet, visiting the Cole Porters in Venice, or summering with Picasso on the Riviera, Gerald and Sara Murphy brought their incandescent American energy, passion for art, and substantial fortunes to the playgrounds of 1920s Europe. John Richardson explores the shadows of their gorgeous life, immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. R E A D  M O R E »     The Man in the Window Mike Rambousek never got any physical remains of his son Luke, who died in the north tower on 9/11. But, as David Friend recounts in an excerpt from Watching the World Change, Mike did find a single, shocking photograph, which let him reconstruct Luke's death—and memorialize its brutality. R E A D  M O R E »     Peyton Place's Real Victim The novel Peyton Place shocked America with its tale of secrets, sex, and hypocrisy in a small New Hampshire town, becoming one of the best-selling dirty books ever, a hit movie, and TV's first prime-time soap. It brought fame and misfortune to Grace Metalious, the bawdy, rebellious housewife who wrote it, and outraged the citizens of Gilmanton—"the real Peyton Place." Michael Callahan charts the tumultuous celebrity, emotional flameout, and sordid death, at 39, of an unlikely cultural trailblazer. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2022. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.