After Dinner Speakers: Robert Lacey, Richard Fairbrass, Paula Abdul

Robert Lacey is the method actor of biographers, a British historian and author who specialises in getting close to and often living alongside his subjects (well, the modern ones, at least). His books have been published throughout the British Commonwealth, as well as in the United States, and have also been translated in Spain, Brazil, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Israel, the Arab world and Japan. The author of numerous best-sellers, Robert is noted for his original research and for making vital social issues accessible to the general reader in a compulsive, page-turning style. After writing his first works of historical biography, Robert, Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert was commissioned to write his biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Majesty, which was published on the occasion of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. A hugely well-informed and interesting speaker