Cather­ine Ostler is an author and jour­nal­ist who has been Edi­tor-in-Chief of Tatler, the Eng­lish Stan­dard (Lon­don), the Evening Stan­dard mag­a­zine (Lon­don), and Edi­tor of The Times (Lon­don) Week­end. She has also writ­ten for a wide range of pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The Wall Street Jour­nal, The Dai­ly Tele­graph (Lon­don), the Finan­cial Times, and Vogue. She stud­ied Eng­lish at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty. Her first book was the crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed The Duchess Count­ess: The Woman Who Scan­dal­ized Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Lon­don.