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Sarah Gristwood is a best-selling biographer, historian, and broadcaster, and a regular media commentator on royal and historical affairs. She is the author of four previous books of 15th and 16th-century history, including <em>Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe</em>, and <em>Blood Sisters: the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses</em>. <em>Arbella: England’s Lost Queen</em> and <em>Elizabeth and Leicester</em> both featured on the bestseller lists; and Sarah also broadcasts regularly for the BBC, Sky, CNN and Channel 5, contributing to documentary series such as <em>Royal House of Windsor<em> and </em>Secrets of the National Trust</em>

Royal rivalries10 of the most famous sibling relationships. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women's diaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“Haunted, in more ways than one”: A historian’s review of The Crown S6, part 1

Free-spirited drama or fake news? How The Crown morphed from ‘safe’ territory to controversy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annus HorribilisWhat happened in the Queen’s horrible year?

Why the real Beatrix Potter was more than her children’s tales. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Woodville: Edward IV’s controversial queen consort

The Argyll divorce: the society scandal that rocked 1960s Britain

The power behind the throne: women in the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diana: the rebel princess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

8 historical reasons behind Anne Boleyn’s appearance in Princess Diana film Spencer

“It doesn’t fall into the trap of making Diana a saint”: a historian’s review of Spencer

Tudors in love: what were the dynasty's romantic secrets?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Philip: the loyal consort. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Why the Tudors fell for courtly love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

History explorer: Tewkesbury Abbey and four more places linked to the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Two steps behind’: male royal consorts through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Historian Sarah Gristwood reviews The Crown season 4: “We’ve reached the issue of how fiction influences opinion in the real world”

Retaining the royals: why has the British monarchy survived – and thrived?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“No match for reality”: the missing history in The Crown series three. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Royal Family’: the fly-on-the-wall documentary the Palace doesn’t want you to see. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Prince Philip as consort: a life of duty and devotion. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Kate Middleton: a modern royal woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

D-Day and the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.