The tragic, untold story of the Duchess of Windsor
Hugo 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.
A 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
*Evening Standard*
The story he tells is detailed, horrible and convincing
*Times Literary Supplement*
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