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Lady Antonia Fraser was born in 1932 into the British aristocracy, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Longford, both eminent writers, supporters of the Labour Party, and converts to Catholicism. Since 1969, Antonia Fraser has written important historical works that have become international bestsellers and have been recognized with prestigious awards, such as the biography of Mary Stuart (Mary Queen of Scots, awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize); The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Marie Antoinette, The Journey (which received the Franco-British Society Prize and was adapted for film by Sofia Coppola); and her most recent work, Love and Louis XIV, The Women in the Life of the Sun King.
She was president of the British PEN Club and the Society of Authors. She received an honorary order in 1999 (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). She is married to the playwright Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.