David Starkey

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British constitutional historian

United Kingdom WritersBorn 1945 · age 81

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Starkey is well known for his historical analyses of Henry VIII and his Court

Benjamin Disraeli by Cornelius Jabez Hughes, 1878.

Awards 5

2013honorary doctor of the École normale supérieure de Cachan

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Medlicott Medal

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Philippa GregoryAlso in Richard III: The Princes in the Tower (2015)

Lucy WorsleyAlso in Britain's Tudor Treasure: A Night at Hampton Court (2015)

Sabine CrossenAlso in Richard III: The Princes in the Tower (2015)

Reinhard SeltenAlso won honorary doctor of the École normale supérieure de Cachan

Bettany HughesAlso won Medlicott Medal

Max HastingsAlso won Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

About this person

David Robert Starkey is an English historian, radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before reading history at Cambridge on a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. From Cambridge, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. He has written several books on the Tudors.

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