Catherine Ostler is the author of The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Splendour, Prejudice and Betrayal (all itals) to be published in April 2026 by Simon & Schuster in the UK, and in July in the USA. Her last book, The Duchess Countess, was selected as a Book of the Year in the Times & Sunday Times, the Telegraph, the Spectator, Vogue and History Today magazine. She has been editor-in-chief of Tatler, editor of ES Magazine at the Evening Standard, and of Times Weekend; and currently writes for publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph and Tatler. Catherine read English at Oxford University.