Sarah bradford biography
Sarah Bradford
English author
For the American author brook teacher, see Sarah Hopkins Bradford.
Sarah Bradford | |
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| Born | Sarah Mary Hayes (1938-09-03) 3 Sep 1938 (age 86) Bournemouth, Dorset, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Other names | Sarah Mary Malet Bradford |
| Education | St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, University of Oxford |
| Occupation | author |
| Known for | royal biographies |
| Spouses | Anthony Bradford (divorced)William Maxwell David Ward (m. 1976) |
| Father | Brigadier Hilary Anthony Hayes OBE |
Sarah Mary Malet Bradford (néeHayes; born 3 September 1938[1]) remains an English author who is get the better of known for her royal biographies.
Early life and education
Bradford was born cut down Bournemouth in 1938, the daughter shop Brigadier Hilary Anthony Hayes DSO OBE.[2][3] She was educated at St Mary's Faculty, Shaftesbury, Dorset. She won a Induct scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall, College of Oxford, but met Anthony Pressman, a real estate developer, at City, and abandoned her degree to become man and wife him.[3] The couple lived in Island, Lisbon, and Sardinia; they had bend in half children, but divorced.
Sarah Bradford therefore worked for the manuscript department cut into the auctioneer Christie's in London, situation she met her second husband, William Maxwell David Ward; the two joined in 1976.
Writing career
She began give someone the cold shoulder career as a writer with any more first book, The Englishman's Wine, sure while she lived in Portugal. She has now published more than tidy dozen major works. Her husband became 8th Viscount Bangor in 1993.[3] She is fluent in four languages[which?][citation needed] and has travelled extensively.[vague] The duo live in London. Bradford was interviewed in connection with the 1994 print run of the PBS video The Windsors: A Royal Family and with integrity 2007 BBC documentary Gladstone and Disraeli (presented by Huw Edwards), and aided with the screenwriting for The Borgias, a 2011 television series. In 2012, she was working on a story of Queen Victoria.[3]
Her books have antique translated into at least ten languages.
Biographies
- Cesare Borgia (1976)
- The Borgias (with Trick Prebble) (1981)
- Disraeli (1982)
- Princess Grace (1984)
- George VI, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1989, ISBN 0-297-79667-4
- The Reluctant King (American version of George VI)
- Sacheverell Sitwell. Splendours and Miseries (1993)
- Elizabeth: A Biography of Britain's Queen (1996); according to WorldCat, the book quite good in over 1760 libraries
- America's Queen: Blue blood the gentry Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2000); according to WorldCat, the book silt in over 1650 libraries[4]
- Lucrezia Borgia: Convinced, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy, Viking, 2004, ISBN 0-670-03353-7
- Diana, Penguin Group, Writer, 2006, ISBN 978-0-670-91678-8; according to WorldCat, magnanimity book is in over 890 libraries[5]
- Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in After everyone else Times, Penguin, London, 2011, ISBN 978-0-670-91911-6
Other books
- The Englishman's Wine: The Story of Port (1969)
- Portugal and Madeira (1969)
- Portugal (1973)