Lord Fellowes has made a dearly held wish come true for his old friend Princess Michael of Kent.
Almost three years after she told me that she was hoping the creator of Downton Abbey would work his magic on The Serpent and the Moon, her historical novel about royal love in Renaissance France, he has agreed to turn it into a television series.
The question apparently was never whether Fellowes would adapt it, but when. “He has been working his way through a long list of commitments,” a friend of the writer tells me. “He has one more American television job to complete and then it’s the next up.”
Early in 2011, the princess’s novel was picked up by a producer and optioned as an eight-part television series with an outline that Marie-Christine, the wife of Prince Michael, a cousin of the Queen, wrote herself.
“The agents are talking. If Julian can, I know he will,” she told me at the time. She added with a sly smile: “His wife
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