In true royal fashion, Queen Elizabeth II has a home for just about every occasion (Balmoral for the summer, Sandringham for Christmas...). Some of these properties come with the title, while others came from inheritance. Here, take a look at the Queen's six royal and private dwellings. 1 The Headquarters: Buckingham Palace...

Like most British families, the royal family has its time-honored Christmas traditions: The holidays are usually spent at Queen Elizabeth’s country estate, Sandringham. There, before and after a hearty Christmas dinner, it is said dinner guests are invited to step on to a set of scales to assess their weight gain, a scene re-created in the 2021 movie “Spencer,” which imagines events at a royal...

Old-school service is alive and well at the Plaza: High tea treats are served in brass birdcages, tuxedo-clad bellman whisk away luggage to gilded suites, and chefs bear toques that tower above their heads. But in the age of Amazon Prime—when we all want everything now—what is it really like blending vestigial aristocratic assistance with light-speed wish fulfillment? In order to properly find out, I...

A selection of Andy Warhol’s earliest paintings that have been kept in his family for more than 70 years will hit the auction block later this year, according to Warhol’s nephew, artist James Warhola. The 10 paintings were created by Warhol (1928-87) when he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. “They really do show my uncle’s earlier years of...

Actor Brad Pitt has paid $40 million for a roughly century-old home on a bluff in the Carmel Highlands along California’s central coast, according to public records and people familiar with the deal. Local agents said the sale is one of the priciest ever closed in the Carmel area. Known as the D.L. James House, the property dates to around 1918 and was designed by Charles Sumner Greene, a...

An apartment at The Eldorado, one of the iconic buildings on Manhattan’s Central Park West, that was the longtime home to the late screenwriter David Shaber has come to the market for $2.295 million. The five-room residence has its own private elevator landing, which opens to the grand entry foyer and a large living room with a decorative fireplace, herringbone floors and soaring ceilings. “Both...

A four-bedroom home once owned by New York Yankees legendary first baseman Lou Gehrig came on the market last week asking $1.459 million. Located in New Rochelle, New York—just 14 miles north of Yankee Stadium, according to marketing materials—the 1895 home has been fully renovated since it last sold for $582,000 in 2019. “We completely restored the home, especially the wood components,” seller...

Built in 1930, the 6,248-square-foot home has undergone renovations and is completely modernized, according to the Airbnb listing. It has five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a large saltwater pool, a pub in the basement, a game room and a gym, among other luxurious amenities. Photograph: Marc McAndrews, courtesy of Airbnb Photograph: Marc McAndrews, courtesy of Airbnb Photograph: Marc McAndrews, courtesy...

Few seemed to notice when an unassuming four-story townhouse on charming cobblestoned street in the bohemian heart New York’s West Village changed hands earlier this year at $8.8 million. Perhaps that almost no one noticed shouldn’t be so surprising given a nearly $9 million townhouse in lower Manhattan has become, well, commonplace. However, the townhouse in question, which dates to the early 1900s,...

If you want to live like Hugh Jackman, you better earn like a triple-threat A-lister. The stage and screen veteran’s recently listed triplex condo in New York’s West Village not only carries an elephantine price tag of almost $40 million, a few clicks and clacks on the abacus shows monthly taxes and common charges pile up to a heart-stopping $734,000 annually. Currently starring opposite Broadway...