Anna Whitelock

Anna Whitelock is a historian of Tudor England and the author of The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court , winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She teaches early modern history at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and is the director of the university's Centre for Public History, Heritage, and Engagement with the Past. A frequent media commentator on the Tudors, the monarchy, and royal succession, she has written for the Guardian , the...See more

Anna Whitelock is a historian of Tudor England and the author of The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court , winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She teaches early modern history at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and is the director of the university's Centre for Public History, Heritage, and Engagement with the Past. A frequent media commentator on the Tudors, the monarchy, and royal succession, she has written for the Guardian , the Times Literary Supplement , and BBC History . See less