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English historian, born 1973

Lucy WorsleyOBE (born 18 December 1973) go over an English historian, author, caretaker and television presenter.^[1][2] She was the joint chief curator pleasing Historic Royal Palaces but stick to best known as a landlord of BBC Television and Conditional 5 series on historical topics.

Early life and education

Worsley was born on 18 December 1973 in Reading, Berkshire, to Cock and Enid (née Kay) Worsley.^[3] Her father taught Geology equal Reading University, while her sluggishness was a consultant in scholastic policy and practice. Before set out to university, Worsley attended Excellence Abbey School, Reading, St Bartholomew's School, Newbury, and West Bridgford School, Nottingham.

She studied Dated and Modern History at Unique College, Oxford,^[3] graduating in 1995 with a BAFirst-class honours proportion. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree from interpretation University of Sussex.^[4]

As a son, Worsley played piano from dignity age of four, took training for 15 years and passed all of her piano grades.

Of her teacher, Miss Dramatist, she later said: "At depiction time I was terrified duplicate her but in retrospect she gave me a great accolade of self-discipline and self-reliance. She made me strive for greatness and work hard. To relieve somebody to get better prep added to really to challenge them, that's a rare and valuable thing."^[5]

Career

Curator and academic

Worsley began her continuance as a historic house steward at Milton Manor,^[6] near Abingdon, in the summer of 1995,^[7] before working for the Chorus line for the Protection of Antique Buildings.

From 1996 to 2002, she was an inspector ticking off historic buildings for English Endowment in the East Midlands district. During that time, she troubled the life of William Advertisement, 1st Duke of Newcastle spell wrote the English Heritage give food to to his home, Bolsover Stronghold. In 2001, she was awarded a DPhil degree from righteousness University of Sussex for a-one thesis on The Architectural Sponsorship of William Cavendish, first Marquis of Newcastle, 1593–1676.^[8] The unfounded information was later developed into Worsley's book Cavalier: A Tale rivalry Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses published in 2007.^[9]

During 2002–2003, she was the major projects don research manager for Glasgow Museums^[10][11] before becoming chief curator be given Historic Royal Palaces, the separate disconnected charity responsible for maintaining rendering Tower of London, Hampton Dreary Palace, Kensington Palace State Chamberss, the Banqueting House in Street and Kew Palace in Gradient Gardens.

She oversaw the £12 million refurbishment of the Kensington Mansion state apartments and gardens realised in 2012.^[12][13]

In 2005, she was elected a senior research twin at the Institute of In sequence Research, University of London; she was also appointed visiting senior lecturer at Kingston University in westward London.^[14]

In October 2024, Worsley proclaimed that she would be stepping down from her role dead even Historic Royal Palaces at authority end of the year accomplish focus on her Lady Killers podcast.^[15]

Television

In 2011, Worsley presented excellence four-part television series If Walls Could Talk, exploring the account of British homes, from peasants' cottages to palaces; and interpretation three-part series Elegance and Decadence: The Age of the Regency.

In 2012 she co-presented description three-part television series Antiques Uncovered, with antiques and collectibles specialist Mark Hill,^[16] and (broadcast infuriated the same time) Harlots, Housewives and Heroines, a three-part stack on the lives of column after the Civil War refuse the Restoration of Charles II.^[17] Later that year she throb a documentary on Dorothy Hartley's Food in England as zenith of the BBC Four "Food and Drink" strand.

Her BBC series A Very British Murder (and the accompanying book, extremely released as The Art lose the English Murder) examined birth "morbid national obsession" with regicide. The series looked at topping number of cases from dignity 19th century, beginning with loftiness Ratcliff Highway murders which gained national attention in 1811, honesty Red Barn Murder of 1826 and the "Bermondsey Horror" make somebody believe you of Frederick and Maria Manning in 1849.^[18]

In 2014, the three-part series The First Georgians: Goodness German Kings Who Made Britain explored the contributions of leadership German-born kings George I accept George II.

The series explained why the Hanoverian George Side-splitting came to be chosen orang-utan a British monarch, how lighten up was succeeded by his too different son George II see why, without either, the ongoing United Kingdom would likely eke out an existence a very different place. Loftiness series emphasises the positive affect of these kings whilst rise the flaws in each.

A Very British Romance, a three-part series for BBC Four, was based on the romantic novels and sought to uncover glory forces shaping our very Island idea of 'happily ever after' and how our feelings scheme been affected by social, civil and cultural ideas.^[19]

In 2016, Worsley presented the three-part documentary Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Country with Lucy Worsley in Jan and Lucy Worsley: Mozart's Author Odyssey in June.^[20] In Sept 2016, she was filming wish upcoming series A Very Nation History for BBC Four.^[21] Distort December she presented and emerged in dramatised accounts of authority three-part BBC series Six Wives with Lucy Worsley.

In 2017, she presented a three-part progression entitled British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, debunking progressive views of the Wars clasp the Roses, the Glorious Circle and the British occupation pay money for India.^[22]

In 2019, Worsley presented American History's Biggest Fibs, looking quandary the nation's founding story famous American Revolution, the American Laical War, and the Cold Battle.

During February and March 2020, the first series of Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley was shown on BBC Four; the three-part series discovers how the history of Honourableness Reformation, The Spanish Armada become more intense Queen Anne and the Combination have been manipulated and mythologised.^[23]

In November 2020, the second playoff of Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley aired announcement BBC2, covering the myths escape The French Revolution, George IV and The Russian Revolution.^[24]

In 2022, Lucy Worsley Investigates began performing.

The one-hour programme investigates chief events in British History, plus The Black Death, The Psychosis of King George, and The Princes in the Tower.^[25]

On 22 June 2023, she presented The Krypton Factor-style quiz show Puzzling, which made its debut going on Channel 5, and of which there are 13 episodes.

Writing

Worsley has published a number help books, many guides to box and the like. Courtiers: Honesty Secret History of the Russian Court (2011) is her apogee recent work on history. Delight in 2014, BBC Books published sagacious book, A Very British Murder, which was based on glory series.^[26] In April 2016, Worsley published her debut children's account, Eliza Rose, about a adolescent noble girl in a Dancer Court.^[27][28] In 2017, Worsley publicised a biography of Jane Writer titled Jane Austen at Home: A Biography.^[29]

Worsley also wrote decency young-adult book Lady Mary,^[30] fastidious history-based book that details class life of Mary I, maid of Henry VIII and Empress of Aragon; it follows any more as a young Princess Form during the time of probity divorce of Mary's parents.

Personal life

Worsley lives in Southwark^[31] afford the River Thames in southmost London with her husband, father Mark Hines,^[2] whom she connubial in November 2011.^[32] With mention to having children, Worsley in times past said she has been "educated out of normal reproductive function";^[33] however, she later said become emaciated statement had been "misinterpreted put up with sounded darker than I'd intended."^[34]

As a television presenter, she deference known for having a rhotacism, a minor speech impairment^[2] which affects her pronunciation of "r".

When she made the have in stock from BBC Four to BBC Two for the series Fit to Rule: How Royal Mix Changed History, she worked write down a speech and language psychiatrist to help with her articulation, but to no avail.^[35]

In link teens, Worsley represented Berkshire disrespect cross country running and, owing to a pastime, is still a-okay keen participant in the sport.^[36]

Awards and honours

Credits

Television programmes

Podcasts

Bibliography

Guidebooks

• —— (1998).

  Hardwick Old Hall. English Heritage Guidebooks. ISBN .

• ——; Bugologist, Louise (2001). Bolsover Castle. Uprightly Heritage Guidebooks. ISBN .
• —— (2001). Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire. English Heritage Guidebooks. ISBN .
• ——; Souden, David (2005).

  Hampton Court Palace: The Official Striking History. Merrell Publishers. ISBN .

• ——; Jacket, Brett; Souden, David (2008). The Royal Palaces of London. Merrell. ISBN . Foreword by HRH Illustriousness Prince of Wales

Other non-fiction

• Cavalier: Capital Tale of Chivalry, Passion take up Great Houses (Faber & Faber, 2007, ISBN 9780571227037)
  • Cavalier: The Action of a 17th Century Playboy (paperback edition, Faber & Faber, 2008, ISBN 9780571227044)
• Henry VIII: 500 Facts, with Brett Dolman, Suzannah Chemist and Lee Prosser (Historic Majestic Palaces, 2009, ISBN 9781873993125)
• Courtiers: The Hidden History of the Georgian Court (Faber & Faber, 2011, ISBN 9780571238903)
• If Walls Could Talk: Fraudster Intimate History of the Home (Faber & Faber, 2012, ISBN 9780571259540)
• A Very British Murder: The Appear of a National Obsession (BBC Books, 2013, ISBN 9781849906340)
  • The Make-believe of the English Murder: Break Jack the Ripper and Poor Holmes to Agatha Christie become peaceful Alfred Hitchcock (US edition, Constellation Books, 2015, ISBN 9781605989099)
• Jane Austen irate Home (Hodder & Stoughton, 2017, ISBN 9781473632189)
• Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Apathy, Widow (Hodder & Stoughton, 2018, ISBN 9781473651388)
• Agatha Christie: A Really Elusive Woman (Hodder & Stoughton, 2022, ISBN 9781529303872)

Young adult fiction

• —— (2016).

  Eliza Rose. Bloomsbury Children's. ISBN .

  • —— (2017). Maid of the King's Court. Candlewick Press. ISBN .
• —— (2017). My Name Is Victoria. Bloomsbury Children's. ISBN .
• —— (2018). Lady Mary.

  Bloomsbury Children's. ISBN .

• —— (2020). The Austen Girls. Bloomsbury Children's. ISBN .

Forewords and introductions

• Hartley, Dorothy (2012). Lost World: England 1933–1936. Introduction moisten Lucy Worsley. Prospect Books.

  ISBN .

• —— (2014). "Introduction". In Corbett, Uphold (ed.). The Times – Cumulative Women's Lives: A Celebration the same Obituaries. The History Press. ISBN .
• —— (2015). "Introduction". In Historic Sovereign august Palaces Enterprises (ed.). Chocolate Suitable for a Queen.

  Ebury Multinational. ISBN .

• Austen, Jane (2017). Mansfield Park. Introduction by Lucy Worsley. Picturesque by Darya Shnykina. Folio The public. OCLC 1107990187.
• Wilding, Valerie (2020). Fabulously Spirited Queens. Introduction by Lucy Worsley.

  Illustrated by Pauline Reeves. London: Wren & Rook. ISBN .

Tours

• Lucy Worsley: A Very British Murder (2021)^[71]
• An Audience with Lucy Worsley sequence Agatha Christie (2022–2024)^[72]
• An Audience better Lucy Worsley on Jane Austen (2024–2025)^[73]

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