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Linda Porter (born 1947) is an historian and British novelist.
Linda Porter | |
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| Born | 1947 Exeter, Devon |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Biography, history |
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Porter was born in Exeter, Devon in 1947. Her family has long-standing connections to the West Country, but moved to the London area when she was a small child. She was educated at Walthamstow Hall School in Sevenoaks and at the University of York, from which she has a doctorate in History. On completing her postgraduate work, she moved to New York and lectured at Fordham University and the City University of New York.[citation needed]
Porter moved back to England, and has worked as a journalist and been a senior adviser on international public relations to a major telecommunications company. In 2004 she won the Biographers Club/Daily Mail prize.[1] Her first book, Mary Tudor: The First Queen was published in 2007. It was a biography of Queen Mary I of England presented a view of Mary as a decisive and clear-headed ruler, and a skilled political and diplomatic operator.[2]
In 2010, her second book Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr was published.[3] This biography of Katherine Parr detailed her life as a queen and stepmother.[3]
Her third book, Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots, was published by Macmillan in 2013.[4][5] It tells the story of a divided family and how Scotland and England because one nation.
In 2014 Dr. Porter continued to do public speaking and published articles and book reviews[6][7][8][9][10] as well as doing research for a fourth book.
Porter's fourth book, Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars follows the lives of Charles I’s family.[11]
The author’s fifth book, Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II, was published in the UK on 16 April 2020.
Porter is married and has one daughter. She lives in Kent.
- Mary Tudor: The First Queen (2007) ISBN 978-0-7499-5144-3
- The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" (2008) ISBN 978-0-312-36837-1
- Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr" (2010) ISBN 978-0-230-71039-9
- Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII" (2010) ISBN 978-0-312-38438-8
- Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" (2013) ISBN 978-0-230-75364-8
- Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" (2014) ISBN 978-0-312-59074-1
- Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars" (2016) ISBN 978-1-4472-6754-6
- Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II" (2020) ISBN 978-1-5098-7705-8
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