• on Royalty with Hugo Vickers

  • Oct 24 2023
  • Length: 54 mins
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on Royalty with Hugo Vickers

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  • 1.  Royalty v Republic  2.  The 'Crown' tv show  3.  Princess Alice, the Duke of Edinburgh's mother  4.  Mad, bad and bonkers  5. Modernisation of the Royal Family.  6. Conclusion

    Tom talks with the UK's pre-eminent expert on royalty, Hugo Vickers.  He has written many biographies of 20th century figures, including Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Andrew of Greece, and the Queen Mother.  His book, The Quest for Queen Mary, sold 40,000 copies in various forms.  He has attacked the fifty episodes of the Netflix series of The Crown – in his book, The Crown Dissected (2019), all of which are available as an e-book.

    So It Goes

    Tom Assheton & James Jackson

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    Hugo Vickers

    See also:

    YouTube: BloodyViolentHistory

    https://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/

    https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.com

    https://www.tomtom.co.uk

     

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