Alison Weir

Alison Weir is a British author and public historian whose main subject is English royal women and families. Her first book, Britain's Royal Families, appeared in 1989, and she has since written biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower. She has also written historical fiction set at the Tudor court, including Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen, and her work on the wives of Henry VIII spans both biography and novels.