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

Ella

The best-selling authorized biographer of Princess Margaret and Sir Peter Ustinov, Chris Warwick has most recently been at work on Taschen's lavishly illustrated tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, which is due to be published in the summer of 2012. He has once again been contracted to work with CTV, Canada's biggest national television news network, providing expertise and commentary for London's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Last year, in addition to news interviews at home for the BBC, among other broadcasters, and appearances in several television documentaries, Chris was part of the CTV team that not only covered the wedding of William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but which also followed their first official tour to Canada. 

Christopher's most recent biography Ella - Princess, Saint & Martyr, is the widely acclaimed, definitive study of the remarkable life - and brutal death - of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia, which was based almost entirely on primary source material in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Hesse State Archives in Darmstadt, and the Russian State Archives in Moscow and St Petersburg. Now revered by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova, Ella (as she was known) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, the elder sister of the last Russian Tsarina, Alexandra, and a great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Following publication of Ella, Christopher was invited to write a history of the distinguished Throckmorton family. A private commission, it was entitled One House, One Family, One Faith, (the family motto) and commemorated the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Throckmorton dynasty.

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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, Chris's only non-royal biography, though he says the time has certainly come to write others, has been The Universal Ustinov. The authorized life of Sir Peter Ustinov, Oscar-winning actor, writer, raconteur and all-round Renaissance Man, the book was written with Sir Peter's personal co-operation and that of members of his family and a host of friends and colleagues. Working on The Universal Ustinov, to which Sir Peter, though requiring no editorial control, gave his unreserved approval, and which became an immediate best-seller, was one of the greatest pleasures of Christopher's career. In November 2004, eight months after Sir Peter's death, passages from it were quoted by Schuyler Chapin, former Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City,  in his address that was delivered by his son Ted (Theodore Chapin) President of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, during Sir Peter's Memorial Service at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.

In addition to biographies, Chris Warwick has also written widely for the national press, is a frequent guest on television documentaries at home and abroad, has experience as a ghostwriter and as a publicity writer.