PROFESSOR KATE WILLIAMS is an award-winning author, historian and broadcaster. Her eleven historical books include Rival Queens, The Royal Palaces and the New York Times-bestselling Becoming Queen. She has presented many TV series on the BBC and Channel 5, including Restoration Home, Inside Versailles and Secrets of the Royal Palaces, and is CNN's in-house historian, as well as hosting the podcast Queens, Kings and Dastardly Things. She has been a consultant on historical ¿lms and TV series, as well as for the Royal Mint, and has won Celebrity Pointless, Mastermind, Antiques Road Trip and House of Games. She has also appeared on The Wheel, The Great British Bake Off and Would I Lie To You. Kate Williams has a DPhil from Oxford and is currently Professor of History at the University of Reading. Her greatest love is a dusty document.