Robert Prentice

At school I always enjoyed a keen interest in British and European history. Over time, my focus centred on the Royal families of Europe and I vividly remember this was thanks to reading Dorothy Laird's excellent biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. On leaving school, I attended university and enjoyed a long business career, but always made time to read the latest royal biographies. I then wrote articles for 'Majesty' magazine and occasionally for Royalty Digest Quarterly. Indeed, it was after composing an article for this periodical, on the life of Princess Olga of Yugoslavia, that I made the decision to write a full-length biography of the Princess' life using her diaries, private correspondence and materials held at various Archives.