Anna Whitelock is a historian, author, and broadcaster. She is professor of the history of monarchy at City St George’s, University of London and director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. Whitelock is an international media commentator on monarchy, public history, and heritage, as well as on the Tudor and the Stuart dynasties. She is also the principal investigator on a major Arts and Humanities Research Council project, The Visible Crown: Queen Elizabeth II and the Caribbean, 1952 to the Present. She is the author of Mary Tudor: England’s First Queen and The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court.
