Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers

Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers

The tragic true story behind the forthcoming film My Duchess starring Joan Collins and Isabella Rossellini

'Hugely entertaining' - Telegraph
'A page turner' - Times Literary Supplement
'Definitively brilliant' - Evening Standard

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, died in Paris on 24 April 1986, just weeks short of her ninetieth birthday.

Many assumed she had died years earlier, having vanished from public life for over a decade. Yet her death made headlines around the world, prompting a fresh retelling of Edward VIII’s abdication and reigniting the long-smouldering feud between the exiled Windsors and the British Royal Family.

Hugo Vickers has followed the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. In this book, drawing on previously unpublished papers and personal testimony, he offers a striking new perspective on one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating and ill-fated couples.

Behind Closed Doors is part detective story, part gripping royal history. With meticulous research and a deep understanding of his subjects, Vickers uncovers a drama whose power has only grown with time.

'The most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet'
Financial Times

'Behind Closed Doors is filled with revelations'
Isabella Rossellini

‘Hugo Vickers always brings history to life... the reader feels like they are looking through the peephole and listening through the door’
Joan Collins

‘Fascinating … A beautifully written account of one of the 20^th century’s most remarkable lives’
The Lady

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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 -- A.N. Wilson * Evening Standard *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780099547228
ISBN 10	0099547228
Title	Behind Closed Doors
Author	Hugo Vickers
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2012-04-05
Number of pages	480
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.