The writer and critic A. N. Wilson, who observed in 2008 that Eden was "easily the best-looking individual, of either sex, to occupy office [of Prime Minister in the twentieth century", noted also that he was "the only male Prime Minister known to have varnished his fingernails". However, there is little objective evidence that Eden was unduly vain about his clothes; he merely dressed well. As for his Homburg, which Deedes noted that he wore at an angle, his official biographer Sir Robert Rhodes James, wrote that "to him it was just a hat".