Anna Whitelock

Anna is Professor in the History of Modern Monarchy and Executive Dean of the School of Communication and Creativity at City St. Georges, University of London.  She is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history and heritage, and the Tudors and Stuarts and a regular contributor to television and radio programmes. Her lively, revisionist biography of Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen (Bloomsbury, 2009) was a bestseller in paperback and received brilliant reviews. Her second book, Elizabeth’s Bedfellows: An Intimate History of the Queen’s Court, was published to acclaim in 2013 by Bloomsbury and by Farrar, Straus US (2014) and won the American PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Her latest book – The Sun Rising: James and the Rise of a Global Britain – was published by Bloomsbury in April 2025.

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