Bloomsbury Press are delaying publication of 'Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV' by Veronica Buckley as they deal with the fallout from a recent revelation about a diary she used heavily during the writing: it’s not real. Buckley believed she had discovered a previously untapped source in the form of 'Le Journal secret de Louis XIV', Louis XIV of France’s diary, supposedly discovered in 1997 after lying forgotten for over 280 years. If real this could have provided a major insight into the life (and in this case loves) of the ‘Sun King’. Unfortunately for all concerned, but especially Buckley - who is said to have quoted the text throughout her book - the diary was actually written in 1998 by a French expert on Louis called François Bluche as an experiment in constructing what such a diary would have been like. Critics of Buckley have not held back in their comments, and Bloomsbury is believed to be making changes to thousands of copies.