Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser is the author of many widely acclaimed historical works, including the biographies Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, King Charles II, and The Gunpowder Plot (CWA Nonfiction Gold Dagger; St Louis Literary Award). She has written five highly praised books which focus on women in history, The Weaker Vessel: Women's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England (Wolfson Award for History, 1984), The Warrior Queens: Boadiceas Chariot, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Franco-British Literary Prize 2001), which was made into a film by Sofia Coppola in 2006, and Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King. Fraser was made CBE in 1999, and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She lives in London and has eighteen grandchildren.