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CHRISTOPHER WARWICK is a highly respected royal historian, writer and biographer, who is regularly asked to take part in television programmes, documentaries and radio programmes, relating to modern royal history from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day.
BOOKS
Since he began his writing career, Christopher has to date published fourteen books. Among them, his authorized biography, Princess Margaret – A Life of Contrasts, which has been in print in several editions since first published in 2000, was released by Andre Deutsch in November 2017, as an updated, small-format hardback, that includes previously unavailable material sourced from declassified government papers, which throws an entirely new light on the princess's headline-making relationship with wartime fighter pilot, Group Captain Peter Townsend; one of the most explosively controversial royal issues of the day.
Of Princess Margaret – A Life of Contrasts, distinguished writer and historian Adrian Tinniswood, OBE wrote: ‘I can’t remember the last time I read such a sensitive, insightful, provocative biography. Masterly’
Writer and historian Sarah Bradford (Viscountess Bangor) added that Christopher had produced ‘the most complete and sympathetic life of his contradictory subject yet written;’ while
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Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr - Hardcover
Review
"the book lingers with you long after you have finished it." ( Majesty, September ) "As Warwick s biography of Ella aptly demonstrates, unravel one biography of a late19thcentury European royal and the entire dynasty unfolds." ( The Daily Telegraph , November ) " inspiring " ( Majesty, November ) "Christopher Warwick marshals an impressive dossier of research, drawing extensively on primary sources, to bring to life the lost worlds of late 19th Century royalty and the sumptuous last gasp of the Romanovsit is hard to imagine a more rigorous study of a woman who, unusually in the annals of history, combined the roles of society beauty and latterday saint." ( Mail on Sunday , December ) "Warwicks biography is freighted with domestic and cultural detail and weighted with tragedy." ( The Times , December ) Christopher Warwick s wellresearch biography fills a gap in the literature of royal lives. (The Times Literary Supplement, February ) "Christopher Warwick has given the story a new power and a subtle shift of meaning." ( Royalty Digest, February ) "Christopher Warwicks acclaimed new biography of Ella sheds new light on a remarkable woman." ( Royalty Magazine) " a definitive biography Elisabeth Feo