Leanda de Lisle graduated from Somerville College Oxford having read history and in 1990 she completed an MBA – her thesis was on political marketing.

Leanda has written columns for Country Life, the Sunday and Daily Express, The Spectator, The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Sunday Telegraph, the New Statesman.

Leanda’s AFTER ELIZABETH which focuses on the period between March 1603, when Elizabeth I died, to July 1603 when James VI of Scotland was crowned James I of England, was published by HarperCollins in 2005, who also published THE SISTERS WHO WOULD BE QUEEN: THE TRAGEDY OF MARY, KATHERINE AND LADY JANE GREY in January 2009. They are both educated to her husband and three sons. Tudor: The Family Story was published in the UK in August 2013. It was published in the US under the title Tudor: Passion, Manipulation, Murder, the story of England's most notorious dynasty in October 2013. It is dedicated to her friend the late Eric Ives.
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