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Sarah Gristwood
English journalist and author
Sarah Gristwood is an English journalist and author.[1] She was born in Kent, grew up in Dover[2] and educated at St Anne's College, Oxford.[1]
As a journalist she has written for a number of British papers, including The Times, The Guardian and the Telegraph.[3] She has written historical biographies as well as fiction, and has contributed to television documentaries.[3]
Gristwood's historical biography, Arbella: England's Lost Queen is about Lady Arbella Stuart, an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. In a review in The Times, Kevin Sharpe wrote, "Sarah Gristwood presents a powerful story of the dynastic insecurity of the Tudors and Stuarts, and of the vulnerability of Elizabeth and James to foreign and domestic intrigues."[4] Sarah Gristwood accepted the invitation of the Royal Stuart Society, on the occasion of the Quatercentenary of the death of Arbella, to give a Lecture with the title: Lady Arbella Stuart – England’s Lost Queen?
Her book, Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, focuses on five queens: Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, Mary I of England, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots.[5]
She has appeared in the movie Venice/Venice (1992), and as herself in the television series Stars of the Silver Screen (2011) and Discovering Fashion: The Designers (2015).[6]
Gristwood was married to the film critic Derek Malcolm from 1994 until his death in 2023.[7][8]