Alexander Larman is an author, historian and journalist. His recent books are The Windsors at War: the Nazi Threat to the Crown (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023) an account of the Royal Family during WWII, and The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication (W&N, 2020), an acclaimed revisionist history of the abdication saga. His latest, Power and Glory (W&N, 2024), takes the ‘Windsors trilogy’ up to the coronation of Elizabeth II.

Larman began his writing career with Blazing Star (Head of Zeus, 2014), a biography of the 17th century poet and libertine Lord Rochester, and followed this with Restoration (Head of Zeus, 2016) a social history of the year 1666, and Byron’s Women (Head of Zeus, 2016), an ‘anti-biography’ of the poet Lord Byron and the significant women in his life. He is the books and arts editor of The Spectator’s world edition, and regularly writes and reviews for titles including The Observer, the Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Times, as well as regularly broadcasting on a variety of historical and cultural subjects.