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Sarah Gristwood is an English journalist and author. [1] She was born in Kent, grew up in Dover [2] and educated at St Anne's College, Oxford. [1]

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As a journalist she has written for a number of British papers, including The Times , The Guardian and the Telegraph . [3] She has written historical biographies as well as fiction, and has contributed to television documentaries. [3]

Gristwood's historical biography, Arbella: England's Lost Queen is about Lady Arbella Stuart, an English noblewoman who was considered a possible successor to Elizabeth I. In a review in The Times, Kevin Sharpe wrote, "Sarah Gristwood presents a powerful story of the dynastic insecurity of the Tudors and Stuarts, and of the vulnerability of Elizabeth and James to foreign and domestic intrigues." [4] Sarah Gristwood accepted the invitation of the Royal Stuart Society, on the occasion of the Quatercentenary of the death of Arbella, to give a Lecture with the title: Lady Arbella Stuart – England’s Lost Queen?

Her book, Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe, focuses on five queens: Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, Mary I of England, Elizabeth I, and Mary, Queen of Scots. [5]

She has appeared in the movie Venice/Venice (1992), and as herself in the television series Stars of the Silver Screen (2011) and Discovering Fashion: The Designers (2015). [6]

Gristwood was married to the film critic Derek Malcolm from 1994 until his death in 2023. [7] [8]

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  2. Cabinet of Curiosities: Taxidermy by Sarah Gristwood Retrieved 23/4/21.
  3. 1 2 "Sarah Gristwood" . Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  4. Sharpe, Kevin (2 February 2003). "Review: Biography: Arbella, England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood". The Sunday times. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. Dunant, Sarah (2 December 2016). "Women of Thrones". New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2008.
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  7. "Skeletons in the Closet". Evening Standard. 6 March 2003. Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  8. Shoard, Catherine (16 July 2023). "Derek Malcolm, longtime Guardian film critic, dies aged 91". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2023.