Philippa Gregory (b. 1954) is a British novelist best known for her historical fiction set in the Tudor and Plantagenet courts. Trained as a historian, she brings archival detail to novels that nevertheless pulse with scandal, passion, and betrayal. Her most famous work, The Other Boleyn Girl, reimagines the Tudor court through the eyes of Mary Boleyn, sister to Anne — turning well-known history into intimate, urgent storytelling.

Gregory’s novels are unapologetically dramatic. Where Hilary Mantel strips the Tudor world to psychological subtlety, Gregory revels in the theatre of power, desire, and rivalry. She writes not for dusty historians but for readers who want to feel the velvet, hear the whispers, and watch ambition destroy families at the dinner table.