Of course, Vickers, 68, is an acknowledged authority on the British Royal Family. “I got so angry, and in the end I thought I ought to do a sort of Graham Greene J’Accuse! ” “Endless newspapers were asking me to do things like true and false, and they never would let me say all that I wanted to,” he explains by phone from London. The Crown Dissected grew out of the fact-checking Vickers has done since the wildly popular series began.
Setting the record straight, however, involves more than getting the outrageous feathered hats, curtsies and ceremonial tiaras right. And in his new book The Crown Dissected, the historian goes deep on the popular royal Netflix drama.
In the cottage industry of historians called upon by pop culture to separate fact from fiction when real-life events land on the big and small screens, The Financial Times has called Hugo Vickers the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet.
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