Tracy Borman

Tracy Borman is a historian and author from Scothern, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. She is most widely known as the author of Elizabeth's Women. Borman was born and brought up in the village of Scothern, near Lincoln. She was educated at Scothern Primary School (now Ellison Boulters Academy), William Farr School, Welton, and Yarborough School (now Lincoln Castle Academy), Lincoln. She taught history at the University of Hull, where she was awarded a Ph.D. in 1997. Elizabeth's Women was serialised and became a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week in September 2009. Tracy Borman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, also in September 2009. In 2013, she was appointed Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces alongside Lucy Worsley. She and her husband, whom she married at the Tower of London, live in New Malden, south-west London. As a writer, she is known for The Private Lives of the Tudors (2016), Inside the Court of Henry VIII (2015), and The Spy Who Brought Down Mary, Queen of Scots (2014).