Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man.
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 *
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 |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2012-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
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