Sarah Gristwood is a best-selling biographer, historian, and broadcaster, and a regular media commentator on royal and historical affairs. She is the author of four previous books of 15th and 16th-century history, including Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, and Blood Sisters: the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses. Arbella: England’s Lost Queen and Elizabeth and Leicester both featured on the bestseller lists; and Sarah also broadcasts regularly for the BBC, Sky, CNN and Channel 5, contributing to documentary series such as Royal House of Windsor and Secrets of the National Trust
