Gwen Robyns

New-Zealand born writer and journalist. She became Assistant Editor of the Daily Mirror, and as Woman's Editor of the London Evening News in 1953 traveled for four months with the newly-crowned Queen and Duke of Edinburgh on a tour of the Commonwealth nations. Her observations were felt too obtrusive and she almost had her accreditation withdrawn. In 1972 she helped her friend Dame Margaret Rutherford complete her autobiography shortly before the actress's death. Her 1976 biography "Princess Grace" lead to a close friendship with the former film-star, and in 1980 they collaborated on "My Book of Flowers". Her biography was updated and republished in 1982 following the death of the Princess. On television she is best known for contributions about Agatha Christie having written the first full biography of the writer. She also wrote biographies of Vivien Leigh (1968), Barbara Cartland (1984) and Queen Geraldine of the Albanians (1987), as well as several cookery books before her death in 2013.