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4 unusual facts about Hugo Vickers


Hugo Vickers

In September 2001, Vickers wrote a Victorian Evening where he performed alongside Prunella Scales, in presence of the Earl and Countess of Wessex.

Vickers was appointed Chairman of the Jubilee Walkway Trust in October 2002, which had been founded in 1977 as a lasting memory of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and later refurbished and updated to commemorate her Golden Jubilee.

Being in this role, he welcomed Queen Elizabeth II and her consort, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to the Mall to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Queen's coronation in 2003, and again on 19 November 2007, when the royal couple unveiled the Diamond Wedding panoramic panel in Parliament Square.

Educated at Eton College and Strasbourg University, Vickers has written many royal biographies, including ones of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Princess Andrew of Greece—which was approved by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh—and Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough.



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