Guest Bio
Caroline Angus is a New Zealand-based author raising four sons. Caroline studied history at Universitat de València, Spain, spending ten years dedicated to the Spanish Civil War and the resulting dictatorship. Caroline went on to study with King’s College London, specialising in Shakespeare and British royal history. After a decade of writing fiction, including the Secrets of Spain series, focusing on the lives of Valencian interviewees between 1939 and 1975, and the more recent Queenmaker Trilogy, eleven years of Thomas Cromwell and his fictional attendant Nicòla Frescobaldi, Caroline is now creating non-fiction works on the surviving papers of Thomas Cromwell.
Natalie Grueninger speaks with Caroline Angus about the private life of Thomas Cromwell.
Tune in to hear Natalie and Caroline discuss:
– Cromwell’s early life, family and upbringing
– Cromwell’s travels around Europe
– The tragic loss of his wife and children
– His time in Wolsey’s service
– The skills that made him indispensable to the king
– The real man behind the black-clad, serious facade
– His downfall
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