You could spot him most days if you knew where to look. An angular figure pedalling his bicycle from one palace, where he lived, to another, where he worked. Unassuming and anonymous in his cycle clips he may have been, but for 22 years Robert Fellowes knew more secrets about the Royal Family than perhaps anyone else in Britain. As the late Queen Elizabeth's private secretary, he was at the epicentre of every crisis that engulfed her during the most perilous period of her reign, from the marital and domestic upheavals of her children, to the disasters and tragedies of the Windsor Castle fire and the death of Princess Diana. ...read
The ultimate insider who knew the royals' darkest secrets: Accused of masterminding a plot to murder Diana, Robert Fellowes was at the centre of the family's most private controversies, writes RICHARD KAY
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