David Robert Starkey CBE (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and a radio and television presenter. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King Henry VIII's household. From Cambridge, he moved to the London School of Economics, where he was a lecturer in history until 1998. He has written several books on the Tudors.
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3 January 1945 (age 80) Kendal, Westmorland, England
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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