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Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were married for 73 years, but they were far from affectionate, at least when they had an audience. The pair rarely held hands in public. They didn’t even kiss in public on their wedding day! Yet the love story between the late queen and her Prince Charming was a fairy-tale one, outlasting the marriages of three of their children. So what gives? Why didn’t they loosen up and show some public displays of affection? It turns out there’s a very valid reason, according to a new book by royal author Ian Lloyd. Ahead, I dig into the story and talk to Maria Coole, a Daily Mail reporter and the editor of The Royal List newsletter, about the couple’s enduring relationship . Get  Reader’s Digest ’s  Read Up newsletter for more royals, humor, travel, tech and fun facts all week long. Why didn’t Elizabeth and Philip ever hold hands? They simply would never have considered it. It was a very different time, and according to Lloyd’s new...

The book Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe hooked me right away. A college student unexpectedly getting pregnant, then creating an OnlyFans account to keep her mounting bills paid? That premise felt both relevant and realistic in our world today. And I wasn’t the only one who felt that way. The novel, released in 2024, won the relatively new but prestigious Clark Fiction Prize in 2026, an accolade shared by the likes of Pulitzer Prize –winners Colson Whitehead (for The Underground Railroad in 2018) and Percival Everett (for The Trees in 2023). Amazon reviewers loved it too—the book has racked up 17,000 reviews in just two years. So when I heard that the novel was being adapted into a television series by the ultra-hip A24, I was excited for even more people to experience a story I loved. I was also a bit skeptical. Would the show stay true to the book’s commentary on single parenthood? Would the Hollywood-ification of a good book dull the authentic character development?...

Is it just me, or does the weather seem like it keeps getting worse? “It wasn’t this bad when I was a kid” is a refrain I hear from locals, no matter where I am, and it’s a phrase I’ve been guilty of using myself when dealing with the melting summertime humidity of the small Appalachian town where I grew up. In my adopted home of Seattle , I’m told all the time that the rain didn’t come down so hard in the past; instead, it was a gentler mist that gradually abated over the course of most days. The thing is, it’s not just me, and it’s not just shared childhood nostalgia that makes the weather seem worse now. According to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) from the United States Global Change Research Program, “the severity, extent [and] frequency of multiple types of extreme events” really have increased. We’re seeing more rainfall and flooding , as well as worse heat waves, hurricanes, wildfires and drought risks. In other words, wet places are getting wetter, dry places ar...

It was another giant leap for mankind as NASA’s Artemis II became the first crewed mission to the moon in 54 years. The four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—blasted off aboard the Orion spacecraft on April 1 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completed a lunar flyby and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on the evening of April 10. The spacecraft flew 252,756 miles from Earth, breaking Apollo 13’s 1970 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled into space. The mission also marks the first time that humans have been able to see the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes. (Fortunately for us, the crew took plenty of photos .) It’s a stepping stone to an even greater lunar goal. “At NASA, we dare to reach higher, explore farther and achieve the impossible,” said Lori Glaze , PhD, NASA’s acting associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. “[The astro...