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.infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Alison Weir</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Alison Matthews<br />London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Author, historian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Language</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/City_of_London_School_for_Girls" title="City of London School for Girls">City of London School for Girls</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/University_of_North_London" title="University of North London">University of North London</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/History" title="History">History</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">Historical fiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Primarily English royalty</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Rankin Weir</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1972)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alisonweir.org.uk">alisonweir<wbr />.org<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alison Weir</b> (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span> Matthews) is a British author and <a href="/wiki/Public_history" title="Public history">public historian</a>. She primarily writes about the history of English royal women and families, in the form of biographies that explore their historical setting. She has also written numerous works of <a href="/wiki/Historical_fiction" title="Historical fiction">historical fiction</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lrc_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lrc-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her first work, <i>Britain's Royal Families</i> (published in 1989), was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. She subsequently wrote biographies of <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Isabella of France</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Swynford" title="Katherine Swynford">Katherine Swynford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" title="Elizabeth of York">Elizabeth of York</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower" title="Princes in the Tower">Princes in the Tower</a>. Other focuses have included <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a> and his family and England's Medieval Queens. Weir has published historical overviews of the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a> and royal weddings, as well as historical fiction novels on English queens, including each wife of Henry VIII. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2></div> <p>Weir was brought up in Westminster, London. She has been married to Rankin Weir since 1972,<sup id="cite_ref-marriage_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marriage-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and now lives in Surrey.<sup id="cite_ref-bio_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bio-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She described her mother as "a genuinely good person with heaps of integrity, strength of character, humour and wisdom, and has overcome life’s trials with commendable fortitude."<sup id="cite_ref-birth_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-birth-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Weir recalls how, at the age of fourteen, she read <a href="/wiki/Lozania_Prole" class="mw-redirect" title="Lozania Prole">Lozania Prole</a>'s <i>Henry's Golden Queen</i>, a "really trashy" novel about the life of <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a>. She then became interested in the field of history.<sup id="cite_ref-chat_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chat-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was educated at <a href="/wiki/City_of_London_School_for_Girls" title="City of London School for Girls">City of London School for Girls</a> and <a href="/wiki/North_Western_Polytechnic" class="mw-redirect" title="North Western Polytechnic">North Western Polytechnic</a>, becoming a history teacher. She opted to abandon teaching as a career after a disillusion with "trendy teaching methods", so she worked as a civil servant, and later as a housewife and mother. Between 1991 and 1997, she ran a school for children with learning difficulties.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-fiction">Non-fiction</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>It has made me more confident in some ways. It has benefited me financially, of course, and enabled me to enrich the lives of others, but most important of all, it has made me feel fulfilled in a creative sense.<sup id="cite_ref-glowmag_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glowmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">—Alison Weir on her writing career</cite></p> </div> <p>In the 1970s, Weir spent four years researching and writing a biography of the six wives of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>. Her work was deemed too long by publishers, and was consequently rejected. A revised version would be published in 1991 as her second book, <i>The Six Wives of Henry VIII</i>. In 1981, she wrote a book on <a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a>, which was again rejected by publishers, this time because it was too short. Weir finally became a published author in 1989 with <i>Britain's Royal Families</i>, a compilation of genealogical information about the <a href="/wiki/British_Royal_Family" class="mw-redirect" title="British Royal Family">British Royal Family</a>. She had revised the work eight times over a twenty-two-year period, and decided that it might be "of interest to others". After organising it into chronological order, <a href="/wiki/The_Bodley_Head" title="The Bodley Head">The Bodley Head</a> agreed to publish it. </p><p>Weir would not start writing full-time until the late 1990s. While running the school for children with learning difficulties, she published the non-fiction works <i>The Princes in the Tower</i> (1992), <i>Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses</i> (1995), and <i>Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII</i> (1996). Now writing books full-time, she produced <i>Elizabeth the Queen</i> (1998) (published in America as <i>The Life of Elizabeth I</i>), <i><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a>: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England</i> (1999), <i>Henry VIII: The King and His Court</i> (2001), <i><a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Mary, Queen of Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a> and the Murder of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley" title="Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley">Lord Darnley</a></i> (2003), and <i><a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Isabella</a>: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England</i> (2005). <i><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Swynford:_The_Story_of_John_of_Gaunt_and_his_Scandalous_Duchess" title="Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess">Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess</a></i> followed in 2007, and <i>The Lady in The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn</i> in 2009. <i>Traitors of the Tower</i> came out in 2010. The following year, she completed <i>The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings</i> and <i>Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings</i>, the first full non-fiction biography of <a href="/wiki/Mary_Boleyn" title="Mary Boleyn">Mary Boleyn</a>, sister of Anne Boleyn.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013 she published <i>Elizabeth of York – A Tudor Queen and Her World</i>, a biography on <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_of_York" title="Elizabeth of York">Elizabeth of York</a>, mother of Henry VIII. Weir has written two books on England's Medieval Queens: <i>Queens of Conquest</i> published in 2017<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Queens of the Crusades</i>, published 5 November 2020 by <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of Weir's works deal with the <a href="/wiki/Tudor_period" title="Tudor period">Tudor period</a>, which she considers "the most dramatic period in our history, with vivid, strong personalities... The Tudor period is the first one for which we have a rich visual record, with the growth of portraiture, and detailed sources on the private lives of kings and queens. This was an age that witnessed a growth in diplomacy and the spread of the printed word."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction">Fiction</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg/180px-SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg/270px-SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg/360px-SaintRadegondeMural_cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Alison Weir has written two works on <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a> (<i>pictured</i>) - a non-fiction biography and a historical fiction novel.</figcaption></figure> <p>Weir wrote historical novels while a teenager,<sup id="cite_ref-libraryjournal_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libraryjournal-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her novel in the genre of historical fiction, <i><a href="/wiki/Innocent_Traitor" title="Innocent Traitor">Innocent Traitor</a></i>, based on the life of <a href="/wiki/Lady_Jane_Grey" title="Lady Jane Grey">Lady Jane Grey</a>, was published in 2006. When researching <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine" title="Eleanor of Aquitaine">Eleanor of Aquitaine</a>, Weir realised that it would "be very liberating to write a novel in which I could write what I wanted while keeping to the facts". She decided to make Jane Grey her focus because she "didn't have a very long life and there wasn't a great deal of material".<sup id="cite_ref-libraryjournal_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libraryjournal-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She found the transition to fiction easy, explaining, "Every book is a learning curve, and you have to keep an open mind. I am sometimes asked to cut back on the historical facts in my novels, and there have been disagreements over whether they obstruct the narrative, but I do hold out for the history whenever I can."<sup id="cite_ref-glowmag_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glowmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her second novel is <i>The Lady Elizabeth</i>, which deals with the life of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Queen Elizabeth I</a> before her ascent to the throne. It was published in 2008 in the United Kingdom and United States. Her next novel, <i>The Captive Queen</i>, was released in the summer of 2010. Its subject, Eleanor of Aquitaine, had been the subject of a non-fiction biography by Weir in 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-cbcbooks_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbcbooks-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Traitors of the Tower</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Novella" title="Novella">novella</a> written by Weir and published on <a href="/wiki/World_Book_Day" title="World Book Day">World Book Day</a> 2010. Working with <a href="/wiki/Quick_Reads" class="mw-redirect" title="Quick Reads">Quick Reads</a> and <a href="/wiki/Skills_for_Life" title="Skills for Life">Skillswise</a>, Weir has recorded the first chapter as a taster and introduction to get people back into the habit of reading.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weir published <i>The Marriage Game</i>, a historical novel featuring Elizabeth I and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Dudley,_1st_Earl_of_Leicester" title="Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester">Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester</a>, in June 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2016 her novel <i>Katherine of Aragon, The True Queen</i> was published,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the first of a six-book series on the theme of <i>Six Tudor Queens</i>, each covering one of Henry VIII's six wives. The final novel in the series, <i>Katharine Parr, The Sixth Wife</i> was published in May 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_style">Writing style</h2></div> <p>Weir's writings have been described as being in the genre of <a href="/wiki/Popular_history" title="Popular history">popular history</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-libraryjournal_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-libraryjournal-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an area that sometimes attracts criticism from academia;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> according to one source, popular history "seeks to inform and entertain a large general audience... Dramatic storytelling often prevails over analysis, style over substance, simplicity over complexity, and grand generalization over careful qualification."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Weir argues that "history is not the sole preserve of academics, although I have the utmost respect for those historians who undertake new research and contribute something new to our knowledge. History belongs to us all, and it can be accessed by us all. And if writing it in a way that is accessible and entertaining, as well as conscientiously researched, can be described as popular, then, yes, I am a popular historian, and am proud and happy to be one."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Hughes" title="Kathryn Hughes">Kathryn Hughes</a>, writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, said of Weir's popular historian label, "To describe her as a popular historian would be to state a literal truth – her chunky explorations of Britain's early modern past sell in the kind of multiples that others can only dream of."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reviews of Weir's works have been mixed. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i> said of <i>The Lady in the Tower</i> that "it is testament to Weir's artfulness and elegance as a writer that The Lady in the Tower remains fresh and suspenseful, even though the reader knows what's coming."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, <a href="/wiki/Diarmaid_MacCulloch" title="Diarmaid MacCulloch">Diarmaid MacCulloch</a>, in a review of <i>Henry VIII: King and Court</i>, called it "a great pudding of a book, which will do no harm to those who choose to read it. Detail is here in plenty, but Tudor England is more than royal wardrobe lists, palaces and sexual intrigue."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail">The Globe and Mail</a></i>, reviewing the novel, <i>The Captive Queen</i>, said that she had "skillfully imagined royal lives" in previous works, "but her style here is marred by less than subtle characterizations and some seriously cheesy writing",<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> said of the same book, "12th-century France could be the dark side of the moon for all we learn about it by the end of this book."<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <p>Weir lives in <a href="/wiki/Surrey" title="Surrey">Surrey</a> with her husband, son and daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-glowmag_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-glowmag-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has called "Mrs Ellen", a fictional character from her novel about Jane Grey, most like her own personality, commenting that, "As I was writing the book, my maternal side was projected into this character."<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Weir is a supporter of the renovation of <a href="/wiki/Northampton_Castle" title="Northampton Castle">Northampton Castle</a>, explaining that the estate is a "historic site of prime importance; it would be tragic if it were to be lost forever. I applaud the work of the Friends of Northampton Castle in lobbying for its excavation and for the regeneration of the area that would surely follow."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non_fiction">Non fiction</h3></div> <ul><li><i>Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy</i> (1989)<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Six_Wives_of_Henry_VIII_(book)" title="The Six Wives of Henry VIII (book)">The Six Wives of Henry VIII</a></i> (1991)<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Princes in the Tower</i> (1992), republished in 2014 as <i>Richard III and the Princes in the Tower</i><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Lancaster and York – The Wars of the Roses</i> (1995), published in the US as <i>The Wars of the Roses</i><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII</i> (1996), published in the US as <i>The Children of Henry VIII</i><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Elizabeth the Queen</i> (1998), published in the US as <i>The Life of Elizabeth I</i><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England</i> (1999), published in the US as <i>Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life</i></li> <li><i>Henry VIII: King and Court</i> (2001), published in the US as <i>Henry VIII: The King and His Court</i><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley</i> (2003)<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England</i> (2005), published in the US as <i>Queen Isabella</i><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Swynford:_The_Story_of_John_of_Gaunt_and_his_Scandalous_Duchess" title="Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess">Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and his Scandalous Duchess</a></i> (2007), published in the US as <i>Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster</i><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn</i> (2009)<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Traitors of the Tower</i> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings</i> (2011), co-authored with Kate Williams, Sarah Gristwood and Tracy Borman<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Mary Boleyn: The Great and Infamous Whore</i> (2011), published in the US as <i>Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings</i><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen</i> (2013), published in the US as <i>Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World</i><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox</i> (2015)<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Queens of the Conquest</i> (2017)<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>A Tudor Christmas</i> (2018)<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Queens of the Crusades</i> (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Queens of the Age of Chivalry</i> (2022)<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fiction_2">Fiction</h3></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Innocent_Traitor" title="Innocent Traitor">Innocent Traitor</a></i> (2006)<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Lady Elizabeth</i> (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Captive Queen</i> (2010)<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Dangerous Inheritance</i> (2012), published in the US as <i>Dangerous Inheritance: A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower</i><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Marriage Game: A Novel of Elizabeth I</i> (2014)<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen</i> (2016)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession</i> (2017)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen</i> (2018)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Anna of Kleve: Queen of Secrets</i> (2019)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Katheryn Howard: The Tainted Queen</i> (2020)<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Katherine Parr: The Sixth Wife</i> (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court</i> (2021)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose</i> (May 2022)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown</i> (May 2023), to be published in the US as <i>The King's Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII</i><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Mary I; Queen of Sorrows</i> (May 2024), to be published in the US as <i>The Passionate Tudor; A Novel of Queen Mary I</i> (May 2024)<sup id="cite_ref-weirbooks_56-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weirbooks-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alisonweir.org.uk/books/index.php">"Alison Weir – Books by author"</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 April</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Alison+Weir+%E2%80%93+Books+by+author&rft.pub=AlisonWeir.org.uk&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alisonweir.org.uk%2Fbooks%2Findex.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlison+Weir" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWeir2020" class="citation book cs1">Weir, Alison (2020). <i>Katheryn Howard, The Tainted Queen</i>. <a href="/wiki/Headline_Publishing_Group" title="Headline Publishing Group">Headline Publishing</a>, London. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1472227775" title="Special:BookSources/978-1472227775"><bdi>978-1472227775</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1101774665">1101774665</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Katheryn+Howard%2C+The+Tainted+Queen&rft.pub=Headline+Publishing%2C+London&rft.date=2020&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1101774665&rft.isbn=978-1472227775&rft.aulast=Weir&rft.aufirst=Alison&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlison+Weir" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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