Description
Book SynopsisHugo Vickers was born in 1951 and educated at Eton and Strasbourg University. His books include
Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece;
Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough;
Cecil Beaton;
Vivien Leigh;
Loving Garbo;
Royal Orders;
The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and
The Kiss, which won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen for non-fiction. He is an acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, appears regularly on television and has lectured all over the world. Hugo Vickers is married and has two sons and a daughter.
Trade ReviewA page turner... Hugo Vickers' compelling account makes one feel that Wallis did the Queen a favour * Literary Review *
With a lifetime's interest in the subject, Vickers knows everything there is to know about the Windsors . . . The first half of
Behind Closed Doors, as well as being an accumulation of evidence against Blum, is the story of a personal journey into the world of the Windsors in which Vickers quotes from nearly 40 years of his own diary entries. It is also a hugely entertaining account of the battle between biographers for ownership of their subject . . . The book's second half is a biography of Wallis Simpson, nee Warfield. Vickers delves into her family tree with his accustomed detail and gives a realistic account of the end of her marriage to Ernest Simpson. * Telegraph *
A definitively brilliant history of the whole story -- A.N. Wilson * Evening Standard *
