David Starkey
David Starkey (born 1945) is an historian and radio and television presenter.
He was born and brought up in Kendal, and studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics.He claimed to be an "excessively enthusiastic advocate of promiscuity",[1] liberating himself from his mother's intensity; she strongly disapproved of his homosexuality.[2][1]
As an historian, he has a particular interest in, and enthusiasm for, the Tudors, and has present television documentaries on this period.
Starkey lives with his partner, James Brown, a publisher and book designer. The couple have two homes: a house in Highbury and a manor house in Kent.[1]
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669985/David-Starkey-A-man-with-a-past.html John Preston "David Starkey: A man with a past" Daily Telegraph 16 December 2007 |accessdate=14 August 2010}}
- ↑ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20030323/ai_n12581365 Peter Ross, "Rude; Wealth; David Starkey is famous for being rich, gay and, well," The Sunday Herald, hosted at findarticles.com 23 March 2003