Hugo Vickers

Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer, and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the British Royal Family. He has written biographies of the Queen Mother, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, Prince Andrew of Greece, and the Duchess of Windsor. His book The Kiss won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen Award for nonfiction. His polemic, The Crown—Truth & Fiction, attracted international publicity in 2018.