A Royal Pain

Tom Bower is the only celebrity biographer who does his job properly. All his biographies are unauthorized, from his first essay in the form, the life of the Nazi sadist Klaus "Butcher of Lyon" Barbie, to his latest, Betrayal, on Meghan and Harry's campaign of self-enrichment and revenge. On the way, Bower has done the dirty on British politicians (Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown) and been sued by the media magnates Robert Maxwell, Richard Branson, Conrad Black, and also Richard Desmond, who made his money in pornography and then sank to newspaper publishing.