As she pours the tea, I feel like I’ve stepped into a Jane Austen novel. Books and files line the walls, and there is a sense of organised chaos. ‘We’ll have tea in the library,’ she says. Instead, she’s a picture of 21 st-century chic. To my slight disappointment, Lucy is not dressed as a Georgian lady or a Victorian housemaid, nor is she sporting the full Anne Boleyn costume complete with warts and an extra finger that she wore on her recent BBC Four show Royal History’s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsley.
We often have to give people 10 minutes to catch their breath when they reach the top.’ She turns and skips up said staircase with the ease of someone who has done so a thousand times before. ‘I hope you’re okay with steps,’ says Lucy. With yellow leather glove-clad hands, she types a code into an incongruously modern keypad on the ancient stone wall and a hidden door clicks open.
That is when she’s not penning books or ‘larking around on the television in a stupid costume’ – her words, not mine – presenting her iconic history programme, which she films for the BBC. At first glance, it appears unremarkable, but it is here, at the top of turret, that Lucy Worsley, chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces, can be found. She makes no apology for dressing up to make history more interesting, and here Lucy Worsley talks to Ella Dove about her passion for the past, female ambition, and being stood up by Johnny Depp.ĭeep within the sprawling labyrinth of Hampton Court Palace lies a little wooden door. To celebrate the publication of THE AUSTEN GIRLS, my friends at Good Housekeeping magazine have kindly run an interview with me conducted by the imitable Ella Dove … thank you!
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