David Starkey

David Starkey is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and one of our leading historians. He is the author of many books, including Elizabeth, Six Wives: the Queens of Henry VIII, Crown and Country: the kings and queens of England—a history and Henry: Virtuous Prince, which was described as a ‘masterpiece’ by the Sunday Times. He has guest-curated several major historical exhibitions, most recently Henry VIII: Man and Monarch at the British Library. His television documentaries on Elizabeth I and The Six Wives of Henry VIII have won record audiences on Channel 4. He is winner of the W.H Smith Prize for Biography and the Norton Medlicott Medal for services to History presented by the Historical Association. He is Hon. D. Ltt. of the Universities of Kent and Lancaster and was made a CBE in 2007. He lives in London and Kent.