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Sarah Bradford
English author
For the American author and teacher, see Sarah Hopkins Bradford.
Sarah Bradford | |
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Born | Sarah Mary Hayes () 3 September (age86) Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
Nationality | English |
Othernames | Sarah Mary Malet Bradford |
Education | St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, University of Oxford |
Occupation | author |
Knownfor | royal biographies |
Spouses | Anthony Bradford (divorced)William Maxwell David Ward (m.) |
Father | Brigadier Hilary Anthony Hayes OBE |
Sarah Mary Malet Bradford (néeHayes; born 3 September [1]) is an English author who is best known for her royal biographies.
Early life and education
Bradford was born in Bournemouth in , the daughter of Brigadier Hilary Anthony Hayes DSO OBE.[2][3] She was educated at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, Dorset. She won a State scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, but met Anthony Bradford, a real estate developer, at Oxford, and abandoned her degree to marry him.[3] The couple lived in Barbados, Lisbon, and Sardinia; they had two children, but divorced.
Sarah Bradford then worked for the manuscript department of the auctioneer Christie's in London, where she met her second husband, William Maxwell David Ward; the two married in
Writing career
She began her career as a writer with her first book, The Englishman's Wine, written while she lived in Portugal.
She has now published more than a dozen major works.
Sarah bradford author biography graphic organizer The Life of a Boo So look for the suggested read-alikes by title linked on the right. And I laughed. The couple live in London.Her husband became 8th Viscount Bangor in [3] She is fluent in four languages[which?][citation needed] and has travelled extensively.[vague] The couple live in London. Bradford was interviewed in connection with the edition of the PBS video The Windsors: A Royal Family and with the BBC documentary Gladstone and Disraeli (presented by Huw Edwards), and assisted with the screenwriting for The Borgias, a television series.
In , she was working on a biography of Queen Victoria.[3]
Her books have been translated into at least ten languages.
Biographies
- Cesare Borgia ()
- The Borgias (with John Prebble) ()
- Disraeli ()
- Princess Grace ()
- George VI, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, , ISBN
- The Reluctant King (American version of George VI)
- Sacheverell Sitwell.
Splendours and Miseries ()
- Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen (); according to WorldCat, the book is in over libraries
- America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (); according to WorldCat, the book is in over libraries[4]
- Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, Viking, , ISBN
- Diana, Penguin Group, London, , ISBN; according to WorldCat, the book is in over libraries[5]
- Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times, Penguin, London, , ISBN
Other books
- The Englishman's Wine: The Story of Port ()
- Portugal and Madeira ()
- Portugal ()