Trivia

She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to History and Heritage. She is the historian and chief curator for the Historical Royal Palaces in London, England.

Rose to prominence as a television presenter in 2011 after having worked in historic building preservation and curating since the mid-1990s.

Former Inspector of Historic Buildings for English Heritage (1996-2002), concentrating on the East Midlands region.

Alumnus of New College, Oxford (BA, 1995), and University of Sussex (PhD, 2001).

When asked about having children, she claimed to have been "educated out of normal reproductive function", but later claimed those statements had been misconstrued and were "darker" than she had intended.

Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces.

The first documentarian to be allowed, in the series "Six Wives with Lucy Worsley" (2016), to film a collection of love letters between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn that have been preserved by the Vatican in Rome.