HUGO VICKERS Biographer & Historian
'A breathtaking album of photographs … Hugo Vickers added a suitably elegant and sometimes highly acerbic text'

– Sheridan Morley - The Times
25 November 1995




'The pictures dominate the book but in his concise text Hugo Vickers tells the sad story with insight and as much compassion as he can muster'

– Michael Leapman - Country Life
November 1995




'[It] may look like a coffee table book but its level headed narrative is far superior to Mr [Gwynne] Thomas's fantasies [an author whose book was jointly reviewed] … genuinely new Windsor material'

– Andrew Roberts - Sunday Telegraph
December 1995




'A wealth of extraordinary photographs … and even their love and life together bears retelling'

– Annabel Freyberg - The World of Interiors
19 November 1995




'An absorbing text by Hugo Vickers, who charts the extraordinary story anew with sympathetic insight into the early lives of both Duke and Duchess. It is an competent a biography as any of the bulkier volumes to have appeared within recent years'

– Michael Pick - International
New Year 1996




'Now even the most refined among us can indulge: this lavishly produced book is awash in previously unpublished pictures'

– House & Garden
September 1996




'This album is exceptional'

– Madame Figaro
5 October 1996




'This fine book by Hugo Vickers, which is charged with so much nostalgia'

– Marie-Claire Maison
November 1996




'un trés seduisant livre'

– French magazine
16 December 1996



The Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (1995)
Hardback (UK) 1995
Hardback (US) 1996
French Hardback 1996