THE writer and broadcaster Chris Hutchins is an established author of highly acclaimed biographies of the rich, the famous and the royals. His first, Fergie Confidential, was an intimate biography of the Duchess of York and chronicled her troubled marriage to the Queen's favourite son, Prince Andrew. He followed this with a revelatory biography of the late Princess of Wales, Diana's Nightmare: The Family, a book which soestablished him as an authority on the royals that he was invited to cover Prince Charles' subsequent marriage for American television. Books that followed include Elvis Meets the Beatles - a rendezvous he arranged during his close association with all five - ATHINA: The Last Onassis, which probed deeply into the world of the Onassis dynasty and GOLDSMITH: Money, Women and Power, the biography of the late billionaire entrepreneur, Sir James Goldsmith. More recently Hutchins turned his attention to matters Russian with fearless biographies of the country's leader, PUTIN, and best-known oligarch, ABRAMOVICH: The billionaire from nowhere. The author returned to the royal stage with a revealing book about Diana's son, HARRY: The People's Prince. As Prince Charles' former secretary Mark Bolland says of him: 'Chris Hutchins seems to have seen and done it all . . . ' Dominic Midgley is a British journalist and author who started his career on the Daily American in Rome. On his return to the UK he worked on a series of trade magazines before joining the Daily Mail as a feature writer. From there he moved to Today newspaper, where he was working as a lobby correspondent at the Houses of Parliament when the paper was closed in 1995. After a period as a freelance he became deputy editor of Punch magazine before joining first CityAM and then thelondonpaper as associate editor. He currently divides his time between working as a feature writer for the Daily Express and writing about business. He has written biographies of the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith and Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch who bought Chelsea FC. The latter title has been published in 14 countries including Germany, Russia and China.