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Lucy Worsley, historian speaker and BBC presenter, brings royal history, Jane Austen, and Agatha Christie to life for event audiences. She spent 21 years as Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and holds an OBE.
Lucy Worsley is a historian, author, and BBC presenter known for Lucy Worsley Investigates and Royal History's Biggest Fibs. She speaks on the British monarchy, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and the women history has overlooked, drawing on 21 years inside Britain's royal palaces.
Lucy was Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces from 2003 to 2024, looking after the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and Kensington Palace. Her latest book, Queens and Kings, is a Sunday Times bestseller. She hosts the BBC podcast Lady Killers and was appointed an OBE in 2018 for services to history and heritage.
Her approach starts with the physical details of how people lived: what they wore, where they slept, and who they answered to. Lucy has used costume throughout her TV career because clothes show hierarchy and social structure at a glance. That method lets any audience follow complex history and see how power worked in rooms she knows first-hand.
Audiences leave with a new way of looking at familiar figures, from Henry VIII to Agatha Christie, and a clearer sense of whose stories get left out of the record. Her talks suit cultural programmes, member organisations, schools, and public events.
Book Lucy for an event that wants serious history told with wit, warmth, and a curator's knowledge of the rooms where it happened.
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Lucy Worsley tells history through the clothes, rooms, and everyday details of the people who lived it, using costume to show how hierarchy and power worked.
Lucy Worsley speaks on the British monarchy, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and women overlooked by traditional history. She was Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces from 2003 to 2024, wrote Queens and Kings, and was appointed an OBE in 2018 for services to history and heritage.
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