Kate Williams’s second book, Becoming Queen, on the youth of Queen Victoria and Princess Charlotte, the Queen who never was, was published in September 2008. It was serialised in Stella Magazine, in the Sunday Telegraph, and Kate discussed it on Woman’s Hour and the Guestlist on Classic FM. She presents a one hour BBC Timewatch special on ‘Young Victoria’ on BBC 2 on Saturday 18 October. 
 
'Kate Williams has excelled herself. One is engaged from the very first line..She has perfected the art of historical biography, few writers bring their characters to life in the way she does, and her pacy writing is underpinned by the most impeccable scholarship.' Alison Weir
 
Kate studied her BA at Somerville College, Oxford, her MA at Queen Mary, University of London and her DPhil at Oxford. She began researching Emma Hamilton while studying for her doctorate. Her first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (2006) was 'Book of the Week' on Radio 4, shortlisted for the Marsh/ English Speaking Union Biography Prize, and a Book of the Year in the Times and Independent. ‘A wonderful, sparkling biography’ Amanda Foreman
 England’s Mistress is being developed for film by Picture Palace, www.picturepalace.com. The script has been written by Sarah Williams (Becoming Jane).
 
Kate appears regularly on Radio 4 and television, including ‘Woman’s Hour’, ‘Broadcasting House’ and ‘Richard and Judy’ and gives lectures to societies, events and dinners regularly in England and Europe. Her ‘Camilla’s Family Secrets: Edward VII and his mistresses’ was shown on Channel 5 and the History Channel in July and she is developing further TV projects.
She divides her time between London and Paris.