Kate Williams is an award-winning author. She studied for her BA at Oxford University and went on to earn an MA from the University of London and a DPhil in history from Oxford. A lecturer and TV consultant in addition to being CNN's royal historian, she has hosted several documentaries on British television and appears regularly on both American and British networks. She is the author of three biographies-Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte, England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton, and Becoming Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch-as well as a novel, The Pleasures of Men. Her articles and essays have been published in a wide range of books and journals.
