Lucy worsley biography

Dr Lucy Worsley is passionate about making history engaging to the widest possible audience. By day, she is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that welcomes more than three million visitors annually to the unoccupied royal palaces of London, including the Tower of London, Kensington Palace State Apartments and Hampton Court Palace.

Somewhere in between she also finds the time to present TV series on a range of historical subjects.

Lucy graduated from New College, Oxford with a first-class honours BA degree in Ancient and Modern History, and in she was awarded a PHD from the University of Sussex.

Her first paid employment after studying history at Oxford was at a minor stately home called Milton Manor, near Abingdon, where she fed the llamas.

After that she became an Inspector of Ancient Monuments at English Heritage, doing historical research at Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire: this led to her first book, 'Cavalier', about a dissolute Royalist d Lucy Worsley Biography, Age, Husband, Tour, Books & Interview BOR