The British gent Lauren Bacall told me had covered up Prince Philip's philandering.

FOR 40 years journalist and literary critic Graham Lord interviewed the world's most famous stars. On Saturday, in the first extract from his sparkling new book, he exposed the truth about Jackie Collins' schoolgirl affair with Marlon Brando. Now he recalls his encounters with Hollywood's most difficult woman — and a riotously tipsy Poet Laureate... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]