Anne Somerset was born in 1955 and read History at King's College, London. Her first book, �The Life and Times of William IV�, was published in 1980. This was followed in 1984 by the bestselling �Ladies-in-Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day�, an acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I in 1991, and �Unnatural Murder: Poison in the Court of James I� � The Overbury Murder in 1998. Her most recent work is �The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV�.