Lucy Worsley and Helen Lewis on history and her book THE GENIUS MYTH

If you missed my conversation with Lucy Worsley—about my problematic fave Catherine de Medici, the “Austen Problem” and whether you should get a wife (yes)—then here’s the whole thing. We did not wear matching glasses deliberately, I swear.

My big takeaway is that the French called the “Field of the Cloth of Gold” by the rather less evocative name of “Camp of the Golden Sheet”.

To pre-order the book, click here for the UK, and here for the US.

Here is the UK cover:

And I got my glamorous assistant to model the US cover:

Order your copy now. Jonathan not included

I apologise for the towering piles of books, I’ve run out of shelf space:

See you on Friday for your regular Bluestocking . . .