And when writing Ford: The Man and the Machine, about Henry Ford, he relocated to Michigan and worked for a time on the assembly line in an auto plant. He moved to the Middle East and even learned Arabic while doing research for The Kingdom, a biography of Saudi Arabia's first ruler, Abdul Aziz Sa'ud. Lacey is a thorough researcher who has often gone to great lengths to immerse himself in the background of the people he writes about. Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor became an international bestseller, and established Lacey's reputation as a biographer who treated his subjects accurately and fairly. While working for the latter, he also began writing biographies his books about Robert, Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh led to a commission to write a history of Queen Elizabeth's reign, to be published during her silver jubilee. Lacey began his writing career as a journalist, working for the Illustrated London News and later the Sunday Times magazine. in 1970, all from Selwyn College, Cambridge. in 1967, a diploma of education in 1967, and an M.A. Robert Lacey was born in Guilford, Surrey, England on January 3, 1944.
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