Anna Whitelock, FRHistS, is a British historian and academic, specialising in the history of monarchy. She is Professor of the History of Monarchy at City, University of London and Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy. ^[1]

Whitelock undertook a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in historical studies at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, graduating in 2004: her master's thesis was titled "Henry VIII's ecclesiastical patronage". ^[2] She remained to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 2004 under the supervision of Dr David Starkey. Her PhD was awarded in 2004 for a doctoral thesis titled "In opposition and in government: the households and affinities of Mary Tudor 1516-1558". ^[3]

She is Professor in the History of Monarchy at City, University of London, having previously taught at Royal Holloway, University of London. ^[4]

Whitelock is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). She won the PEN Weld Award for Biography.

• Whitelock, Anna (2010). Mary Tudor: England's first queen. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN  978-1408800782. OCLC  759872962 ^[5]
• Hunt, Alice; Whitelock, Anna, eds. (2010). Tudor Queenship: The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN  978-0230618237.
• Whitelock, Anna (2014). Elizabeth's bedfellows: an intimate history of the queen's court. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN  978-1408833643. OCLC  1004469938 ^{[6] [7] [8]}

• http://www.annawhitelock.co.uk/
• http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/book-talk/author-interviews/q-a-with-anna-whitelock/