The tragic, untold story of the Duchess of Windsor
Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, appearing regularly on television. He has written biographies of the Queen Mother, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece; Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough (The Sphinx), Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh and others. He explored the Duchess of Windsor's house when writing The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (1995). He collaborated with HRH The Duke of Kent on A Royal Life. His book The Kiss won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for non-fiction. Hugo Vickers lives between London and Wiltshire and has two sons and a daughter.
With a lifetime's interest in the subject, Vickers knows everything
there is to know about the Windsors... hugely entertaining
*Telegraph*
A page turner... Vickers' compelling account makes one feel that
Wallis did the Queen a favour
*Literary Review*
A definitively brilliant history
*Evening Standard*
A devastating account of the last years of the Duchess of Windsor.
Behind Closed Doors is filled with many revelations
*Isabella Rossellini*
Fascinating … A beautifully written account of one of the 20th
century’s most remarkable lives
*The Lady*
The most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet
*Financial Times*
Hugo Vickers always brings history to life... the reader feels like
they are looking through the peephole and listening through the
door
*Joan Collins*
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