Weir would not start writing full-time until the late 1990s. After organising it into chronological order, The Bodley Head agreed to publish it. She had revised the work eight times over a twenty-two-year period, and decided that it might be "of interest to others". Weir finally became a published author in 1989 with Britain's Royal Families, a compilation of genealogical information about the British Royal Family. In 1981, she wrote a book on Jane Seymour, which was again rejected by publishers, this time because it was too short. A revised version would be published in 1991 as her second book, The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Her work was deemed too long by publishers, and was consequently rejected. In the 1970s, Weir spent four years researching and writing a biography of the six wives of Henry VIII. It has benefited me financially, of course, and enabled me to enrich the lives of others, but most important of all, it has made me feel fulfilled in a creative sense.
It has made me more confident in some ways. Between 19, she ran a school for children with learning difficulties. She opted to abandon teaching as a career after a disillusion with "trendy teaching methods", so she worked as a civil servant, and later as a housewife and mother. She was educated at City of London School for Girls and North Western Polytechnic, becoming a history teacher. She then became interested in the field of history.
Weir recalls how, at the age of fourteen, she read Lozania Prole's Henry's Golden Queen, a "really trashy" novel about the life of Catherine of Aragon. She described her mother as "a genuinely good person with heaps of integrity, strength of character, humour and wisdom, and has overcome life’s trials with commendable fortitude." She has been married to Rankin Weir since 1972, and now lives in Surrey. Weir was born in 1951 and brought up in Westminster, London. Weir has published historical overviews of the Wars of the Roses and royal weddings, as well as historical fiction novels on English queens, including each wife of Henry VIII. Other focuses have included Henry VIII and his family and England's Medieval Queens. She subsequently wrote biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Katherine Swynford, Elizabeth of York, and the Princes in the Tower.
Her first work, Britain's Royal Families (published in 1989), was a genealogical overview of the British royal family. She has also written numerous works of historical fiction.
She primarily writes about the history of English royal women and families, in the form of biographies that explore their historical setting. Alison Weir ( née Matthews born 1951) is a British author and public historian.
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