Robert Hardman is an internationally renowned writer and broadcaster who has specialized in royalty and history for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of the Sunday Times Top 10 bestselling biography of Elizabeth II, Queen of Our Times. His other books include Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, Our Queen and Queen of the World, along with the BBC and ITV television documentaries of the same name.

Among other television credits, he wrote and presented the BBC Two documentary George III: The Genius of the Mad King and wrote the BBC series The Queen's Castle. Hardman interviewed the then Prince of Wales for the BBC's Charles at 60, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, for the BBC's The Duke: In His Own Words and the Princess Royal for ITV's Anne: The Princess Royal at 70. He wrote and co-produced the BBC's Prince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers, for which he interviewed a dozen members of the Royal Family. He is also an award-winning newspaper journalist for the Daily Mail in London.