Anna Whitelock gained her PhD in History from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2004 with a thesis on the court of Mary I. Her articles and book reviews on various aspects of Tudor history have appeared in publications including the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and BBC History. She has taught at Cambridge University and is now a lecturer in Early Modern History at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Books in order of publication:
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen – 2009
Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth – 2010
The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court – 2012
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court – 2014
The Sun Rising: King James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain, 1603-1625 – 2025
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