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Friday 9:30–10:15 am

Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory Two’s Company A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria,
Suzanne Somers Albert, and the Death That
Friday 9:30–10:15 am Changed the British Monarchy
Spy vs. Spy Jack London Room Dr. Helen Rappaport
Ben McIntyre, Jason Matthews and Suzanne Somers will share how to shape a healthy, Friday 9:30–10:15 am
Suzanne Matthews lasting relationship through the lens of her fifty-year Walt Disney Room
Friday 9:30–10:15 am love affair with her husband, Alan Hamel. She will After the untimely death of Prince Albert at the age of
John Steinbeck Room expose the inner workings of her marriage: a winning 42, Queen Victoria and her nation were plunged into
combination of love, business, and family. Through a state of grief so profound that this one event would
Ben Macintyre, journalist and author, and Suzanne and fame, fortune, sickness and blended families, Suzanne
Jason Matthews, former CIA operatives, will discuss and Alan have kept the vitality of their marriage alive— dramatically alter the shape of the British monarchy.
some famous spies and covert operations. Kim Philby every day. They have not spent a night apart in 37 Historian and author Dr. Helen Rappaport offers
was considered the greatest spy in history. He was a years. They combine business savvy in their constantly a new perspective on the crucial final months of the
brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s evolving relationship. Suzanne reveals hard-won advice Prince’s life and the first long, dark ten years of the
counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the on how you can rely on another person without Queen’s retreat from public view.
height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working sacrificing your individual strengths.
for the enemy. The Double Cross System, which
specialized in turning German spies into double agents,
was the most sophisticated and successful deception
operation ever carried out, ensuring Allied victory at the
most pivotal point in the WWII.

Kim Philby at a press conference, 1955

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