About the authors
The following historians and authors helped to create the film and while they may disagree on some facts they all concur that this story, rich with gossip and hearsay, has fascinated the public for over 80 years and will continue to do so for years to come.
Hugo Vickers
Hugo Vickers, is a distinguished writer, broadcaster, biographer and journalist. An acknowledged expert on the Royal Family, Hugo has broadcast nationally and internationally on numerous royal occasions. He has written acclaimed biographies on both, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother - Elizabeth, The Queen Mother and Wallis, The Duchess of Windsor, - Behind Closed Doors.
Kate Auspitz
Kate Auspitz, is a distinguished political historian – an Oxford Fulbright fellow who was an Associate Professor at Harvard College and taught in the Political Science Department at Wellesley. Kate’s novel, Wallis: My War was released in 2011 to much acclaim.
John Julius Norwich
John Julius is a historian and writer. The son of the statesman and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount) and the Lady Diana Cooper, both of whom knew David, Edward VIII and Wallis. John Julius met the Windsors on numerous occasions and also knew Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. John Julius has written and edited many books including his mother’s diaries Darling Monster and those of his father The Duff Cooper Diaries, some of which charts the meetings and holidays with Edward and Wallis leading up to the abdication.
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a renowned biographer, lecturer and journalist. Anne has written nine books, including American Jennie about Lady Randolph Churchill and The Exiled Collector about William Bankes. She revealed new material about Wallis in her acclaimed biography That Woman: A Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor.
Lady Colin Campbell
Lady Colin Campbell is a Jamaican-born socialite and royal biographer and writer, best known for her book The Real Diana which was the first expose to be published about Diana, Princess of Wales. Her most recent book is on Elizabeth, The Queen Mother The Untold Life of Queen Elizabeth - The Queen Mother. Lady Colin Campbell knew both The Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton is one of the world’s best–known biographers and an authority on modern royalty and celebrity. Diana: Her True Story was an international bestseller.
His latest book, 17 Carnations, investigated the relationship between the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Hitler and the Nazi elite.
