I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

In 1979 he joined Yorkshire Television where he wrote and presented three ITV network series - The Bomb (1979) The Eagle and The Bear (1980) and The Cold War Game (1981). For BBC Radio 4 he has presented Any Questions? since 1987 and Any Answers? from 1988 to 2012. In 1985 he joined TV-am as presenter of Jonathan Dimbleby on Sunday.

Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944 Aylesbury) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes a political commentator and a writer.