… by day, Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity looking after The Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, Kensington Palace State Apartments, the Banqueting House in Whitehall, and Kew Palace in Kew Gardens.

… by night, a writer, most recently author of If Walls Could Talk, an Intimate History of the Home.  Buy the book here!  (It makes a lovely gift, door-stop, etc.)  The BBC4 TV series that goes with the book was recently repeated on BBC2. 

If you saw my BBC4 series Elegance and Decadence, The Age of the Regency, you might enjoy my book Courtiers, The Secret History of the Georgian Court, available here.

Please come on in, have a look around, and do contact me to let me know what you think of my site!