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Hugo Vickers | |
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| Born | Hugo Ralph Vickers (1951-11-12)12 November 1951 (age 73) Lambeth, London, England |
| Education | Eton College |
| Alma mater | Strasbourg University |
| Occupation(s) | Author, broadcaster, biographer |
Hugo Ralph VickersDL (born 12 November 1951) is an English writer and broadcaster.
The son of Ralph Cecil Vickers,M.C.,[1] a stockbroker, senior partner in the firm ofVickers, da Costa, by his marriage in 1950 to Dulcie Metcalf,[2] Vickers was born inLambeth and educated atEton in the late 1960s and then atStrasbourg University.[3] He has a younger sister, Imogen. His aunt was the politicianBaroness Vickers.[4]
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Vickers has written many royal biographies, including ones ofQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother,Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark—which was approved by her son,Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh—andGladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough. Over the course of his career, he has regularly participated in royal occasions, being a studio guest for both thewedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 andDiana's funeral in 1997. He commentated onITN withJohn Suchet in 1999 for thewedding of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and Sophie Rhys-Jones, for the Queen Mother's centenary celebrations in 2000, and forher funeral two years later. He frequently appeared onCNN's former programme,Larry King Live, and has also appeared onFox News Channel,MSNBC, and television programmes in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In September 2001, Vickers wrote a Victorian Evening where he performed alongsidePrunella Scales, in the presence ofthe Earl andCountess of Wessex. A year later in 2002, he compiled an evening of poetry, prose and music—calledThe Queen Mother's Century; in 2005 he devised a programme ofDesert Island Discs, interviewingRobert Hardy who portrayedSir Winston Churchill; he wrote an anthology of readings and music calledThe Queen's Childhood in September 2006. Once again, Vickers appeared onDesert Island Discs in 2007. In September of that year, he wrote (and designed the set and selected the music on its first showing) his first one-man show, entitledA Lonely Poet, which featured Charles Duff. This show was later renamedThe Immortal Dropout.
He is a liveryman of theWorshipful Company of Musicians.[3]
Vickers was appointed chairman of theJubilee Walkway Trust in October 2002, which had been founded in 1977 as a lasting memory ofthe Queen's Silver Jubilee, and later refurbished and updated to commemorateher Golden Jubilee. Being in this role, he welcomedQueen Elizabeth II and her consort,Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to the Mall to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary ofthe Queen's coronation in 2003, and again on 19 November 2007, when the royal couple unveiled the Diamond Wedding panoramic panel inParliament Square. He is also the Chairman of the Outdoor Trust which puts Walkways into Commonwealth countries.
Vickers is one of theDeputy Lieutenants ofBerkshire.
In September 1995, Vickers married Elizabeth Vickers.[5][6][7][8] They have two sons and a daughter.
Many of the guests at Wyeford in Hampshire were puzzled that the author Hugo Vickers and his bride (and second cousin) Elizabeth Vickers were giving a wedding reception without a wedding. 'It's far too difficult to compete with the Crown Princes and Imrans of 1995 in marriage stakes,' they joked, and later slipped off to a pretty church in a hillside village in France for the ceremony. In the meantime, they entertained 180 of their closest friends with an Arcadian lunch in the garden, after which the guests crossed the moat to watch a medieval joust staged in the couple's honour by Hugo's American godfather, Mr William M. Weaver.
...Correspondence address: Wyeford, Ramsdell, Tadley, Hampshire...
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