“I don’t know if Tinsley Mortimer’s hair really has tiny blond roots in the middle. That’s what I’ve heard. Is that true? I’ve seen the pictures . . . but I don’t know.”
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What took Kuriskunal from Urbana to Manhattan–from speculating about Tinsley Mortimer to actual lip-to-cheek contact–was Park Avenue Peerage, a blog where he collects party pictures and recounts the comings and goings of that insular social set who get themselves photographed at New York parties in fancy dresses. He started writing it last March, but his interest in the rich and important goes back a lot farther than that.
“When I was younger I used to really love reading about kings and queens and castles, and, like, I am very schooled in European royalty. I can give you like Prince William’s ancestry until the 1400s. I really can. I can write down the British order of succession in less than a minute for you for like the first 30 names. That’s how much I love it. That’s how much I know about it. And I felt socialites were the closest thing to an American royalty, to an American peerage.”
(Just to see, I tried to replicate a few items from the early days of PAP. I was able to track down the photographs and pick up the necessary gossip from places like Page Six online.)
