Philip Womack (born in 1981) is a British writer and journalist. Womack married Princess Tatiana von Preussen in 2014.

Education

Womack was educated a
Dorset House Preparatory School

Lancing College Lancing College is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in southern England, UK. The school is located in West Sussex, east of Worthing near the village of Lancing, on the south coast of England. ...

, BPP Law School, and read Classics and English at

Oriel College Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, wh ...

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

Career

Womack has written for ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was fo ...

'', ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''

The Spectator ''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world. It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...

'', ''The Tablet'', The ''

New Humanist ''New Humanist'' is a quarterly magazine, published by the Rationalist Association in the UK, that focuses on culture, news, philosophy, and science from a sceptical perspective. History The ''New Humanist'' has been in print for more than 13 ...

'' and ''The First Post''. His first novel, ''The Other Book'', was published in January 2008, by

Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction. It is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. Bloomsbury's head office is located in Bloomsbury, an area of the London Borough of Camden. It has a U ...

. His second novel, ''The Liberators'', was published by Bloomsbury in February 2010. He authored a trilogy of fantasy novels under the series title ''The Darkening Path''. The books in the trilogy are ''The Broken King'', ''The King's Shadow'', and ''The King's Revenge'', which were published in 2014, 2015, and 2016 respectively. ''The Double Axe'', a retelling of the Minotaur myth, was published in 2016. ''The Arrow of Apollo,'' a book on the stories of the children of Orestes and Aenea, was published in May 2020. The author's first non-fiction book, ''How to Teach Classics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Ancient Greeks and Romans'', was published in October 2020.

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Philip Womack
at Love Reading 1981 births People educated at Lancing College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Living people {{England-writer-stub