The wonderful academic Dr Lucy Worsley is an historian, writer, biographer, curator, podcaster, and TV presenter. She is the joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces and is best known for her work on the BBC, presenting such shows as The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain, Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors, Royal History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, and Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen. Her most recent book, Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman, was published in 2022. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2018 for services to history and heritage.

Born and raised in reading, Worsley studied Ancient and Modern History at Oxford University, and later took her doctorate at the University of Sussex. She began her career as an historic house curator in 1995, and between 1996 and 2002 she was an inspector of historic building s for English Heritage. She worked for Glasgow Museums and then became the chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

Worsley started working as a TV presenter in 2009 on the History Channel’s Inside the Body of Henry VIII, and since then has gone on to work on countless documentaries and TV series for the BBC, Channel 4, and PBS, including Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding, and Lucy Worsley Investigates. As a writer, her first book, Hardwick Old Hall, was published in 1998, and since then she has published countless books and guides, such as Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses (2007), Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (2018), and The Austen Girls (2020).

Worsley regularly connects with her hundreds of thousands of followers and fans through, Twitter, and Facebook, posting pictures and comments about her life around history and writing. She also has an official website, lucyworsley.com.