Susan Ronald

SUSAN RONALD is one of the world's leading experts on commercial activities in historic sites for the past 18 years, and has been an advisor to England's National Trust for the past 8 years. She has written numerous articles on historic subjects and a popular history of France for young adults. Raised in the diamond trade-her father was a diamond merchant for over seventy years-her fascination with the Sancy Diamond, and the mystique of power and greed surrounding gems in general, began at a very early age.

Susan's next book will be 'The Pirate Queen - Queen Elizabeth I & Her Merchant & Gentlemen Adventurers' to be published by HarperCollins New York in July 2007. (Release date: 7th June 2007).

Website details: www.the-pirate-queen.com