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Jessie Childs was born in 1976 and educated at West Heath and Stowe School. She took a first in history at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1999 and has worked in television, researching historical documentaries.
Jessie's first book Henry VIII’s Last Victim won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2007. She regularly speaks at literary festivals, local institutions and on the radio and has written features and reviews for various publications, including BBC History Magazine, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
She lives in London and is currently working on her second book, a tale of plots, priest-holes and persecution in the reign of Elizabeth I.
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