David Starkey

David Starkey CBE FSA (born 3 January 1945) is a British historian. He is also a presenter on television and radio. His main topic is the British Royal Family.

Starkey when a lecturer at LSE in the early 1980s

Starkey was born in Kendal, Westmorland. He studied at Kendal Grammar School and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he gained a PhD. In the early 1970s he moved to London, where he became a teacher.

Starkey's television work includes: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Monarchy by David Starkey, The Tudors, Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant and The Churchills.

Personal life

Starkey lives in Highgate, London and Kent. He is an atheist.^[1] He is openly gay^[1] and lived with his partner James Brown. James Brown died in 2015.