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Handfasting: The Real History Behind Scotland's Year-and-a-Day Marriages

Handfasting wasn't quite the year-and-a-day trial marriage you've heard about. Here's the real history, from riverside fairs to Jim Morrison's blood vows.

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Mandy Rice-Davies: The Teenage Showgirl Who Laughed Her Way Through the Profumo Affair

Mandy Rice-Davies was 18 when one cheeky line made her famous. The real story of the Profumo showgirl, from Rachman and Holloway to Tel Aviv nightclubs.

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Vali Myers: The Witch of Positano Who Tattooed Patti Smith and Lived With 100 Animals

Vali Myers left home in Melbourne at 14, slept rough in post-war Paris, got thrown out of France for vagrancy and spent the best part of 50 years in a crumbling domed cottage in a ravine above Positano, with no electricity, no plumbing and somewhere north of 100 animals. Along the way she inspired a Tennessee Williams character, tattooed Patti Smith's knee, asked Donovan to pay her in goats and got told by Salvador Dalí to put on a show. The locals called her a witch. She was

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