Alison Weir Tours

ABOUT ALISON WEIR



Alison Weir was born in London, England, and was educated at the City of London School. Later, she trained as a teacher, with history as her main subject. But her great love of history had been born some years earlier, after reading her first adult novel at the age of fourteen. After that, she took up history as a hobby. She has published eighteen books.

Alison had a career in Civil Service management and training before her first book, Britain's Royal Families, was published in 1989. She has since written thirteen other best-selling history books: The Six Wives of Henry VIII; The Princes in the Tower; Lancaster and York: The Wars of the Roses; Children of England: The Heirs of Henry VIII; Elizabeth the Queen; Eleanor of Aquitaine, By the Wrath of God, Queen of England; Henry VIII: King and Court; Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley; Isabella She-Wolf of France, Queen of England; Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess   and   The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn. Alison has also written three best-selling novels, Innocent Traitor, about Lady Jane Grey, The Lady Elizabeth, which tells the story of the young Elizabeth I, and The Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine, published in April 2010.

Her latest history book, Mary Boleyn: "The Great and Infamous Whore", will be published in October 2011. She has just completed her fourth novel, Innocent Blood, the sequel to Innocent Traitor, and has another novel and two further history books on contracts. From 1991 to 1997, she ran her own school for children with special needs, and has a special commitment to promoting adult literacy. In 2010 she published a short book, Traitors of the Tower, for the Quick Reads series for emergent adult readers. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Lifetime Patron of Historic Royal Palaces, and is married with two adult children.

Alison Weir has worked with English Heritage on many of its popular ‘Tours Through Time’, and with Smithsonian Journeys in Washington, for whom she developed and led the "Tudor Tapestry" tour of Tudor England in 2010.  

Here are just three of the many testimonials sent by tour guests to Alison Weir…

“My wife and I would like to thank you for making our trip the best and most memorable trip that we have ever taken.”

“How very special you made the 'trip of a lifetime' for all of us – it was such a wonderful experience.”

“I would again like to thank you for the most generous gift of your time. I enjoyed the tour tremendously. I really appreciated your taking the time to listen to my ideas even though I am not a historian and I am sure that you have heard it all before. I can see why you are in such demand as a speaker. Aside from your ability to tell a good story, you obviously respect your audience.”

Alison Weir's official site: www.alisonweir.org.uk