Robert Hardman is an internationally renowned bestselling writer and broadcaster, specializing in royalty and history for more than thirty years. His latest book is the 2026 bestseller, Elizabeth II. In Private. In Public. Her Inside Story, for which his interviewees included US President Donald Trump.

His previous critically acclaimed books include the 2024 Sunday Times Number One bestseller, Charles III. The Inside Story, and Queen of Our Times, which was the Sunday Times Biography of the Year in 2022 (and presented by then prime minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky).

In 2024, Robert was among a handful of authors invited by the Queen to contribute new works to Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House at Windsor Castle, where his single-edition account of the Coronation of Charles III now sits in the royal miniature library.

Robert has also written and co-produced many landmark, prime-time TV documentaries including Charles III: The Coronation Year, George III – The Genius of the Mad King and The Queen’s Castle.

As well as interviewing all the senior members of the British Royal Family, he has interviewed kings, queens, presidents (three of them American), numerous prime ministers and an emperor. A member of the BBC commentary team at every major state occasion of recent times (including the Coronation of Charles III and the funerals of Elizabeth II and Prince Philip), Robert is an award-winning newspaper journalist for the Daily Mail.