Leanda studied History at Somerville College, Oxford University, before taking up national newspaper and magazine columns, and later publishing best-selling Tudor and Stuart history.
 

She regularly writes and speaks on matters historical for TV, radio, and a number of publications including the Times, the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, the Daily Express, BBC History magazine, History Today, the Literary Review, the New Criterion and the Spectator.

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