Behind Closed Doors

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 *

Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. He is 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

In his book, The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (1995), he explored the Duchess of Windsor’s house. He also 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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