Hugo Vickers

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.