Sarah Gristwood is the author of several 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. Her ARBELLA: England’s Lost Queen and ELIZABETH AND LEICESTER both featured on the bestseller lists, and Sarah has also written a number of books on 20th-century figures from Winston Churchill to Elizabeth II.

A former film journalist contributing to the Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph, she now broadcasts regularly for Sky News, CNN and the BBC on royal and historical affairs, besides contributing to a number of documentary series such as "Royal House of Windsor" and "Secrets of the National Trust." A graduate of Oxford University, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the RSA, who has been shortlisted for both the Marsh Biography Award and the Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing.

Books by Sarah Gristwood

The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

by Sarah Gristwood - History, Nonfiction

Why did Henry VIII marry six times? Why did Anne Boleyn have to die? Why did Elizabeth I's courtiers hail her as a goddess come to earth? The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet too often they're dismissed as something existing only in books and song --- those old legends of King Arthur and chivalric fantasy. Not so. In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty. From Henry VIII declaring himself as the “loyal and most assured servant” of Anne Boleyn to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors, the Tudors re-enacted the roles of the devoted lovers and capricious mistresses first laid out in the romances of medieval literature.

Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, and Politics

by Sarah Gristwood