Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts' first book, The Holy Fox, was published in 1991, a biography of Neville Chamberlain's and Winston Churchill's foreign secretary, the Earl of Halifax.

Numerous books have followed, including A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900 published in 2007.

Roberts also writes for The Sunday Telegraph and reviews history books and biography for that newspaper as well as The Spectator, Literary Review, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph.

He is known in the US for his seven-hour NBC broadcast with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric of the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and his CNN broadcasts at the time of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

In 2005 he co-anchored the NBC broadcast of Prince Charles' wedding to Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles.

In February 2007 he delivered the prestigious White House Lecture, before the President gave a lunch in his honour in the Old Family Dining Room.

Roberts is a judge on the Elizabeth Longford Historical Biography Prize, chaired the Conservative Party's Advisory Panel on the Teaching of History in Schools in 2005, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts.

He has also been elected a Fellow of the Napoleonic Institute and an Honorary Member of the International Churchill Society (UK).

He is a Trustee of the Margaret Thatcher Archive Trust.