Margaret Bramford was born in Overbury, Worcestershire, and grew up in Pershore, where her family lived from 1931-1981. She was a teacher of French and Spanish for most of her life and then became a school administrator at Malvern Girls' College (now Malvern St. James Girls' School), Great Malvern, England, before she retired and enjoyed a third career as a writer, local historian and speaker.Her previous books include the best seller From Cottage to Palace, a royal memoir and book 1 in the Worcestershire & Malvern History Series; This Was Our Malvern, Upton-upon-Severn Recollections, both a memoir of social history and women's studies.