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Celia Margaret Lee was born in Co Down, Northern Ireland, on 6th January 1946.
She was educated at St Mary’s Primary School, Kircubbin, and St Columba’s Secondary School, Portaferry, where she undertook a three-year course in commerce.
In 1970, she married military historian John Lee, and has lived most of her life in South East London.
Having worked full-time in the City of London as a commercial secretary for nearly thirty years, she also managed to study at the Open University and obtained an Honours Degree in Humanities in 1980.
She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for First World War Studies,Birmingham University, and a member of the British Commission for Military History and the Gallipoli Association.
Celia’s first book: JEAN LADY HAMILTON (1861-1941) - A SOLDIERS WIFE was published in 2001. Her interests include reading and gardening, and together with her husband, John Lee, she gives a joint talk on General Sir Ian and Jean, Lady Hamilton, to military history organisations around the UK.
She is working on several new biographies of Edwardian characters.
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Conversations with editors at Macmillan kept referring us to Andrew Lownie as an ideal choice for our book on Churchill. Letters went out with a very basic proposal to three possible agents. One never replied at all; one said it was not for them but we ought to try Andrew Lownie; Andrew saw the potential straight away and signed us up very quickly. A good deal of care and attention has gone into perfecting the full proposal, and now the manuscript (all but complete) is available for inspection.
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