Welcome! Becoming Queen, the amazing tale of Victoria's passionate struggle for the throne, and the tale of Princess Charlotte, the forgotten heir, was serialised in the Sunday Telegraph. My one hour Timewatch special on Young Victoria will be shown on 18 October. My first book, England's Mistress: the Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton, was Book of the Week on Radio 4, a Book of the Year in the Times and the Independent, and shortlisted for the Marsh/English Speaking Union prize for Biography, 2005-6. The film is in development.

'Kate Williams has excelled herself. One is engaged from the very first line..She has perfected the art of historical biography...her pacy writing is underpinned by the most impeccable scholarship.' Alison Weir