article_snippet: William Tallon was more than just the Queen Mother’s favourite servant.
article_snippet: William Tallon rose from impoverished beginnings to become her confidant and close friend.
article_snippet: As the first part of a remarkable new biography revealed last week, William Tallon was also a predatory homosexual who breached Royal security by bringing young men back to Clarence House at night.
article_snippet: And William Tallon made powerful enemies.
article_snippet: Here, in the final extract of Backstairs Billy, we reveal that courtiers took courtiers revenge by banishing William Tallon from the Queen Mother’s side, shamefully disregarding the Queen Mother’s
article_snippet: And whatever became of William Tallon meticulous diary, the ‘black book’ of life with the Royals?
article_snippet: William Tallon cuts a lonely figure in 2003 (left), a year after the Queen Mother death .
article_snippet: Within days of the Queen Mother’s death in November 2007, a small group of men were seen entering William Tallon flat in Kennington, South London.
article_snippet: We Billy Tallon would tell anyone who listened that the Queen Mother had promised Billy Tallon that Billy Tallon little gatehouse cottage at Clarence House would be Billy Tallon home for life.
article_snippet: Billy Tallon would tell anyone who listened that the Queen Mother had promised Billy Tallon  Billy Tallon little gatehouse cottage at Clarence House (pictured) would be Billy Tallon home for life .
article_snippet: Billy: The Life Of William Tallon, the Queen Mother’s Most Devoted Servant, by Tom Quinn, is published by Robson Press priced £20.
highlights_snippet: William Tallon was known as Backstairs Billy .
  
highlights_snippet: Rose from impoverished beginnings to become Queen Mother's confidant and friend .
  
highlights_snippet: But William Tallon also breached protocol and brought young men to Clarence House .
  