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 Hugo Vickers is a writer and broadcaster, who has written biographies of many twentieth
century figures, including the Queen Mother, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, a study
of Greta Garbo, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece, and his book, The Private World of The Duke and Duchess of
Windsor was illustrated with pictures from their own collection. Mr Vickers’s book, The Kiss - The Story of an
Obsession won the 1996 Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction.
His latest work is Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, the first major biography since her death, was published in October
2005 and is now in paperback.
Amongst the books that Hugo Vickers has written are:
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| We Want The Queen |
1977 |
| Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough |
1979 |
| Debrett’s Book of the Royal Wedding |
1981 |
| Cocktails & Laughter |
1983 |
| Cecil Beaton |
1985 |
| Vivien Leigh |
1988 |
| Royal Orders |
1994 |
| Loving Garbo |
1994 |
| The Private World of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor |
1995 |
| The Kiss |
1996 |
| Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece |
2000 |
| The Unexpurgated Beaton |
2002 |
| Beaton in the Sixties |
2003 |
| Alexis – The Memoirs of the Baron de Redé |
2005 |
| Elizabeth, The Queen Mother |
2005 |
| Horses and Husbands |
2007 |
| St George’s Chapel |
2008 |
 The biography of Princess Andrew of Greece was authorised by the Duke of Edinburgh, and for
this book he interviewed many members of the Royal Family.
He has served as Literary Executor to Sir Cecil Beaton from 1987, and also to Sir Charles Johnston from 1986.
25th February
2008 Hugo Vickers ‘The Queen Mother – A Personal View’ Clacton & North East
Essex Arts & Literary Society
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
An illustrated talk on The Queen Mother, one of the best-loved figures of the
Twentieth Century, by Hugo Vickers, whose 2005 life was hailed by A.N. Wilson as 'the
best royal biography I ever read'.
Hugo Vickers tells the story of the Queen Mother, throwing new light on her early
years, her courtship by the Duke of York, her reactions and involvement with the
Abdication, the war years, the later years of the King's reign, and, drawing on
considerable personal observation, he illuminates the fifty years she spent as a
working Queen Mother.
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Hugo Vickers is a frequent broadcaster, and is much in demand for royal occasions. He was an ITN studio guest for the
Royal Wedding of 1981, and for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
He commentated with John Suchet at ITN for the wedding of Prince Edward (1999), for the Queen Mother’s 100th Birthday
(2000) and for the Queen Mother’s funeral (2002).
He appears regularly on CNN’s Larry King Live, and has also appeared on Fox TV, NSNBC, a great number of programmes
in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. He was a guest of Jane Pauley (talking about the Royal Wedding) on the Today
show in New York in July 1981. He has done commentaries on ceremonial and state occasions for Sky TV, and for BBC
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