Weir recalls how, at the age of fourteen, she read Lozania Prole's Henry's Golden Queen, a "really trashy" novel about the life of Catherine of Aragon. She described her mother as "a genuinely good person with heaps of integrity, strength of character, humour and wisdom, and has overcome life’s trials with commendable fortitude." She has been married to Rankin Weir since 1972, and now lives in Surrey. Weir was born in 1951 and brought up in Westminster, London. Weir has published historical overviews of the Wars of the Roses and royal weddings, as well as historical fiction novels on English queens, including each wife of Henry VIII. Other focuses have included Henry VIII and his family and England's Medieval Queens. She subsequently wrote biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Katherine Swynford, Elizabeth of York, and the Princes in the Tower. Her first work, Britain's Royal Families (published in 1989), was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. She has also written numerous works of historical fiction. She primarily writes about the history of English royal women and families, in the form of biographies that explore their historical setting. Alison Weir ( née Matthews born 1951) is a British author and public historian.
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