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About Alison Weir

Alison Weir (née Matthews) is a British author and public historian. She primarily writes about the history of English royal women and families, in the form of biographies that explore their historical setting. She has also written numerous works of historical fiction.

Her first work, Britain's Royal Families (published in 1989), was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. She subsequently wrote biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Katherine Swynford, Elizabeth of York, and the Princes in the Tower. Other focuses have included Henry VIII and his family and England's Medieval Queens. 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.

Alison Weir writes about History, Great Britain, Biography, Queens, Great britain, fiction, and Fiction, biographical. Their best-known work is The princes in the tower.

On FindMyTBR we track 35 books by Alison Weir, 32 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Dangerous Inheritance : A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel (Unabridged), and Anna of Kleve, The Princess in the Portrait (Six Tudor Queens). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.