The Lord Chief Justice's court opened its doors at the unprecedented hour of 9.30am on that July day in 1932 to enable an earth-shakingly intimate and sensational libel action to be heard - in effect, in camera - before newspaper reporters even got to hear that it was happening This was an episode in the London High Court that astonished even experienced members of the Bar. The royal gigolo: Edwina Mountbatten sued over claims of an affair with black singer Paul Robeson.
