Robert Lacey
British historian and royal biographer; historical consultant to The Crown.
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- Robert Lacey is a British historian and biographer, author of best-selling lives of Henry Ford, Queen Elizabeth II and other royals.
- His book The Kingdom (1981), on the Saudi royal family, was researched while living in Jeddah.
- He is best known as historical consultant to the Netflix drama The Crown.
Key facts
- Born
- 3 January 1944; grew up in Bristol1
- Education
- History, Selwyn College, Cambridge (BA 1967)1
- Books
- Majesty (1977); The Kingdom (1981); Ford, the Men and the Machine (1986); Little Man (1991); Inside the Kingdom (2009)1
- Earlier
- Journalist at the Illustrated London News and The Sunday Times1
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