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First Published:
Dec 2005, 400 pages
Paperback:
Aug 2006, 416 pages
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Philippa Gregory was born in Kenya in 1954, and moved to
England with her family at the age of two. She was a rebel at school,
attempting to organize her fellow pupils into a Union and barely scraping
through her A Levels (exams taken before leaving school at 18). Needing
to earn a living she trained as a journalist before realizing that she ought to
be at University. She went to Sussex University to read English but had to
take a compulsory Introduction to History course in her first year - the studies
were a revelation which would transform her life; she swapped her degree to
History and discovered a passion for the past.
She lives in the North of England with her husband and two children; in addition to interests that include riding, walking, skiing and gardening, she also runs a small charity
building wells in school gardens in The Gambia in partnership with Ismail Sisay, which she started in 1993 after being persuaded to give a donation to Ismail. At the time of writing 60 wells have been built, providing irrigation to 60 school gardens which in turn allows the school children to learn the skills of sustainable agriculture and grow vegetables for their school lunches (without which many would go hungry), with the surplus produce sold to provide stationery and educational equipment for the schools.
She is the author of the Lacey trilogy and at least ten
stand-alone novels including The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), The Queen's
Fool (2003), The Virgin's Lover (2004) and The Boleyn Inheritance - just released in the UK and due out in hardcover in the USA this December.
A
portrait of Katherine of Aragon.
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Constant Princess. It originally ran in January 2006 and has been updated for the
August 2006 paperback edition.
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