Short answers, pulled from the story.
Alison Weir read the book Henry's Golden Queen by Lozania Prole at the age of fourteen. This novel ignited a lifelong obsession with English royal history and steered her away from a conventional path.
Alison Weir published Britain's Royal Families in 1989 after the Bodley Head agreed to publish the work. The book had been revised eight times over a twenty-two-year period before she decided to publish it.
Alison Weir launched a six-book series on the theme of the Six Tudor Queens in May 2016. The series concluded with Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife in May 2021.
Alison Weir lives in Surrey with her husband Rankin Weir whom she has been married to since the 12th of December 1972. They have two children together.
Alison Weir published The Princes in the Tower in 1992 and republished it in 2014 as Richard III and the Princes in the Tower. The book explores the fate of the two young princes who vanished from the Tower of London.