Before becoming an author, Weir worked as a teacher of children with special needs. She has no formal training as a historian.
Weir has been criticised for an uncritical use of sources; however, she retains a wide following of loyal readers. Most of her books are best-sellers in the UK.
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Books
- Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (latest edition, 2002)
- The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1991)
- The Princes in the Tower (1992)
- The Wars of the Roses (1994)
- The Children of England: the Heirs of King Henry VIII (1996)
- The Life of Elizabeth I (1998)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (1999)
- Henry VIII: The King and His Court (2001)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (2003)