More anchorite than athlete

A balletic counterpart to histories of royal women as whores or virgins

In her new book, Strictly’s head judge Shirley Ballas reveals how ballroom has helped to lift her out of some very dark places

Founded in the 18th century to launch the daughters of the aristocracy into Society, Queen Charlotte’s Ball has been revived and modernised for a new generation. Eleanor Doughty finds out what’s changed–and what hasn’t

Before the US–Russia summit in Alaska, as Vladimir ...

We are living through an interregnum of sorts, stranded between different waves of feminism. The movement’s fourth was followed by backlash and rapid upheaval: in the United States, the first election

“The only direction Britney gave me was that she wanted to die in the video,” said fashion photographer David LaChapelle of the instructions he received for his video of her 2003 single “Everytime”. R