Welcome to the website of writer and biographer, CHRISTOPHER WARWICK.
 

Ella

Currently working with Taschen on a lavishly illustrated book to celebrate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, 2011 was a particularly busy 'television' year for Christopher, especially with royal wedding interviews which started the moment Prince William's engagement to Catherine Middleton was announced in November 2010 and continued through the lead up to the wedding and the wedding itself, followed by the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first official overseas tour to Canada. For the BBC, there were interviews for national news broadcasts as well as morning television and several documentaries. For Canadian Television (CTV), the country's biggest network, Chris was a regular on CTV News and news specials and during the week of the royal wedding, was  part of the broadcast team at the media village outside Buckingham Palace. 

The best-selling authorized biographer of HRH The Princess Margaret, as well as the author of a number of other royal studies, his most recent biography was Ella - Princess, Saint & Martyr. The definitive study of the fascinating life - and brutal death - of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia, it was based on primary research undertaken in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Hesse State Archives in Darmstadt, the Russian State Archives in St Petersburg and the State Archives in Moscow. Now revered by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova, Ella (as she was known) was a favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria, the elder sister of the last Russian Tsarina, Alexandra, and a great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. As Christopher's widely acclaimed biography reveals, Ella was arguably the most inspirational member of Russia's imperial family in the years that led to revolution and the ultimate destruction of the House of Romanov.

Following publication of Ella, Christopher undertook a privately commissioned history of the Throckmorton family of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the family.  

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Above Royal Wedding Day 2011: A well-known face on television news programmes and documentaries at home in the UK, Christopher is also a regular on Canadian Television.  As part of CTV's team, he is seen here with chief anchor and senior editor Lisa LaFlamme (right), actress and comedienne, Tracey Ullman, and university lecturer in early modern history, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb. (Photograph by Adrian Goldberg)

Sir Peter Ustinov at home with
one of his Oscars
(Photograph by Chris Warwick)

To date, Christopher's only non-royal biography, though he hopes to write others, has been The Universal Ustinov. An authorized life of Sir Peter Ustinov, Oscar-winning actor, writer and all-round Renaissance Man, it was written with Sir Peter's personal co-operation. Working on the the book, which became an immediate best-seller, was one of the greatest pleasures of Christopher's career. In November 2004, passages from it were included by Schuyler Chapin, former General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera and Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City, in his eulogy for Ustinov, that was delivered on his behalf by his son Theodore, President of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, during Sir Peter's Memorial Service at St Martin in the Fields, London.

Following publication of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth, Debrett's Queen Elizabeth II, and Abdication, George and Marina, Duke and Duchess of Kent, a study of high society's golden royal couple during the 1930s became a Times best seller. It was followed by Queen Mary's Photograph Albums. Undertaken with the express permission of Her Majesty The Queen, the book provided a unique and privileged glimpse into the public and private life of the royal family from the days of Queen Victoria to the start of the 1950s, as seen through the private photograph collection of the legendary queen consort of King George V, mother of Edward VIII and George VI and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.