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The brave, iconoclastic Lee Miller was many things—model, muse, artist, and more. Yet the more she pushed herself, the higher the price she paid.

When Jackie Kennedy found out Aristotle Onassis was cheating on her, she hopped on a plane to confront him. She had one demand to make—and it was utterly bizarre.

In the 1930s, Wallis Simpson got a daily bouquet at her door—not from her husband, former King Edward VII, but her secret lover. And that was the least of it. Her lover’s identity could topple the kingdom.

In the 1970s, Lee Radziwill was due to walk down the aisle and marry businessman Newton Cope. Then, Lee’s sister Jackie Kennedy phoned up the groom—and her one call destroyed everything.

Abducted by the tribe that killed her family, Olive Oatman’s life was never the same. But when she finally returned home, a more terrifying nightmare awaited her.

As the eldest son and namesake of one of America’s best-loved presidents, John F. Kennedy, Jr. spent his entire life in the public eye. He was just three years old when his father was assassinated, and became a living symbol of the hope, optimism, and vitality of the Kennedy administration.

Consuelo Vanderbilt’s marriage to the Duke of Marlborough was horrific—and it all began with the deranged confession he made on their honeymoon.

Myrtle Corbin, an American sideshow performer with four legs, began feeling pain in her left side in 1887. Corbin was pregnant—and that’s when her doctors came up with a chilling realization.

Jane Seymour is seen as King Henry VIII’s “angelic” wife, but that’s a huge historical lie. Jane very much had a dark side—and it came out one day in a vicious way.

Though his older brother was destined to rule in their home of Austria, Maximilian had no guarantee to any throne—and it bothered him to no end. So, when Napoleon III offered him the position of Emperor of Mexico, he jumped at the opportunity.

In public, the Victorians were some of the stuffiest, snobbiest, most repressed people in history. Behind closed doors, it was a different story. In private, Victorian England was rife with drink, debauchery, and scandal—and no one did it better than Queen Victoria's infamous son, King Edward VII.

Strong, intelligent, and best known as Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta led an extraordinary life. Her experiences, however, were far from idyllic. Born an African princess and captured as a slave, she was later raised as the queen’s ward in English high society. But if her time in England revealed anything, it’s that any cage, no matter how gilded, is still just a cage.