She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences and an Honourary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces. In 2010 Alison published a short book, Traitors of the Tower, for the Quick Reads series for emergent adult readers. She is now working on a biography of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. Her last historical biography, Elizabeth of York, was Britain's second best-selling historical biography in 2013.
Four of them have been chosen as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4.
Her books have sold more than 2.7 million copies worldwide. Alison has also written five historical novels, the latest of which, The Marriage Game, was published in 2014. She has since written fifteen other history books, including The Six Wives of Henry VIII, The Princes in the Tower, Lancaster and York, Children of England, Elizabeth the Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry VIII: King and Court, Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, Katherine Swynford and The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. She had a career in the Civil Service before her first book, Britain`s Royal Families, came out in 1989. Alison Weir is the best-selling female historian in the United Kingdom since records began in 1997.
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