VINCENT MEYLAN is a journalist and royalty connoisseur who has studied the lives of monarchs for the past fifteen years. A feature writer at Point de Vue in Paris. Meylan is also a regular contributor to Estampille and Gazette de L'Hotel Drouet. He has written more than a hundred articles on jewelry and royal families, and is the author of two royal biographies, one on Queen Elizabeth II and one on Empress Farah of Iran.