Linda Porter (born 1947) is an historian and British novelist.

Early life

Porter was born in Exeter, Devon in 1947. Her family has long-standing connections to the

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, but moved to the London area when she was a small child. She was educated at

Walthamstow Hall Walthamstow Hall is an independent day school for girls in the centre of Sevenoaks, Kent, England. History Walthamstow Hall was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest all-girl independent schools in the country. It was founded as an inter-d ...

School in

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and at the

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, from which she has a doctorate in History. On completing her postgraduate work, she moved to New York and lectured at

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and the

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Career

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.Biographer's Club Prize
Previous Winners - Tony Lothian Prize. Her submission was ''Josephine’s Enemies.'' Retrieved 11 July 2014 Her first book, ''Mary Tudor: The First Queen'' was published in 2007. It was a biography of Queen

Mary I of England Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She ...

presented a view of Mary as a decisive and clear-headed ruler, and a skilled political and diplomatic operator. In 2010, her second book ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr'' was published.Linda Porter's Web Site
Text by Dr. Porter. This biography of Katherine Parr detailed her life as a queen and stepmother. Her third book, ''Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots'', was published by Macmillan in 2013.
About Linda.
Text by Dr. Porter. 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 reviewsPorter, Linda. '' Tending the White Rose''. Literary Review. November 2013, pp. 8-10 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.
Text by Dr. Porter. The author’s fifth book, ''Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II'', was published in the UK on 16 April 2020.

Personal life

Porter is married and has one daughter. She lives in Kent.

Published works

* ''Mary Tudor: The First Queen'' (2007) * ''The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary" ''(2008) * ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr" ''(2010) * ''Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII" ''(2010) * ''Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" ''(2013) * ''Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots" ''(2014) * ''Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars" ''(2016) * ''Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II" ''(2020)

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External links

Linda Porter Home Page
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