I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I’ve got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex.
Worsley is Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television series on historical topics, including Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency (2011), Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls (2012), The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain (2014), A Very British Romance (2015), Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey (2016), and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley (2016).
Books in order of publication:
Hardwick Old Hall. English Heritage Guidebooks. – 1998
Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire. English Heritage Guidebooks. – 2001
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses. Faber & Faber. – 2007.
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court. Faber & Faber. – 2011
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home. Faber & Faber. – 2012
A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession. BBC Books. – 2014
Eliza Rose. Bloomsbury Childrens. – 2016
The Art of the English Murder (reprint ed.). Pegasus. – 2017
My Name is Victoria. Bloomsbury Childrens. – 2017
Maid of the King’s Court. Candlewick Press. – 2017
Jane Austen at Home. Hodder & Stoughton. – 2017
Lady Mary. Bloomsbury Childrens. – 2018
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow. Hodder & Stoughton. – 2018
Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life (U.S. ed.). St. Martin’s Press. – 2019
The Austen Girls. Bloomsbury Childrens. – 2020
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman. Hodder & Stoughton. – 2022
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