"She was a highly intelligent woman, who was a canny political operator and walked the knife edge of the royal court"

Elizabeth Fremantle on Katherine Parr, historical fiction and the Hollywood adaptation of her critically acclaimed 2013 novel, Queen's Gambit.

Elizabeth Fremantle is the author of many critically acclaimed historical novels, including Sisters of Treason, The Poison Bed and Disobedient. Her 2013 novel, Queen’s Gambit (now re-released as Firebrand), has recently been adapted into a Hollywood film starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. Here, she talks to us about historical fiction, the Tudors and making fiction out of fact.