Lacey's Alma Mater Selwyn College, Cambridge Lacey co-wrote his last three articles before Khashoggi was murdered in 2018. Friends he made there included journalist Jamal Khashoggi. To research and write the book Lacey took his wife and children to live for two and a half years in Jeddah in the late 1970s.
David Brancaccio said: "In Saudi Arabia, Robert Lacey had the kind of access most journalists only dream of." Lacey's 1981 work The Kingdom, about the Saudi royal family, and its 2009 follow-up Inside the Kingdom have now both been cited as standard study texts for the diplomatic community working inside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He began his writing career as a journalist on the Illustrated London News, and later The Sunday Times. Lacey is an alumnus of Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he earned a BA in History in 1967, a diploma of education in 1967, and an MA in 1970. Robert grew up in Bristol and won a scholarship to Bristol Grammar School. Lacey was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied history. He is best known for his work as historian to the Netflix award-winning drama The Crown. He is the author of a number of best-selling biographies, including those of Henry Ford, Eileen Ford, Queen Elizabeth II and other royals, as well as several other works of popular history. Robert Lacey (born 3 January 1944) is a British historian and biographer.
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