Kate Williams

About The Author

Kate Williams is the author of the New York Times bestseller Becoming Queen Victoria, which was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also the author of Ambition & Desire, a biography of Josephine Bonaparte and The Betrayal of Mary Queen of Scots, also available from Pegasus Books. Kate works as CNN's British royalty and historical expert. She lives in England.

Books by Kate Williams

The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots

Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival

By Kate Williams
From the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria, a new history of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I that reveals how the most important relationship of their life—their friendship—changed them forever. 
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Young Elizabeth
By Kate Williams
We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the young princess did not know the role that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen.Elizabeth's determination to share in the struggles of ...
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