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Welcome to the official website of writer Christopher Warwick.

The best-selling authorized biographer of Princess Margaret, Christopher’s most recent biography was Ella - Princess, Saint & Martyr, the acclaimed, definitive study of the life - and brutal death - of Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia, a favourite granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder sister of the last Russian Tsarina Alexandra and great-aunt of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, it tells the dramatic story of one of the most inspirational members of Russia’s imperial family, in the years that led to revolution and the ultimate destruction of the House of Romanov.

Christopher recently completed a history of the distinguished Throckmorton family of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, which was privately commissioned to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the family in 1409.

Among the movers and shakers of Tudor and Stuart England, members of this famously recusant family included Sir George Throckmorton, a dangerously outspoken opponent of Henry VIII’s divorce from Katherine of Aragon; his son, the diplomat, Sir Nicholas, who acted as Elizabeth I’s go-between in the tense political drama that unfolded between Gloriana and her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots; Bess Throckmorton, Elizabeth’s lady-in-waiting, who married Sir Walter Ralegh without royal consent and ended up in the Tower of London, and Robert Catesby, architect of the Gunpowder Plot.

Christopher’s other books include The Universal Ustinov, a popular biography of Sir Peter Ustinov, Oscar-winning actor, writer, ranconteur, goodwill ambassador and all-round Renaissance Man. Written with Sir Peter’s co-operation, the book became an immediate best-seller.

George and Marina, Duke and Duchess of Kent, a study of high society’s golden royal couple during the 1930s, was followed by Queen Mary’s Photograph Albums, which provided a unique and privileged glimpse into the 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 wife and consort of King George V, mother of Edward VIII and George VI and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.