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Authors: Christopher Andersen
Information for these chapters was based in part on conversations with Richard Kay, Mark Shand, Philip Higgs, Ezra Zilkha, Mimi Massy-Birch, Peter Archer, Lord Mishcon, Alan Hamilton, Guy Pelly, Lady Elsa Bowker, Grigori Rassinier, Richard Greene, Emma Sayle, Geoffrey Bignell, Aileen Mehle, Joan Rivers, Muriel Hartwick, Alex Shirley-Smith, Sioned Compton, Gared Mankowitz, Cecile Zilkha, Natalie Symonds, Janet Lizop, and Hugh Massy-Birch. Among the published sources consulted: Josh Tyrangiel, “The Prince Proposes,”
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