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Veronica Buckley (born 1956) is a historian and biographer. She was born in New Zealand and took her first degrees in French. She moved to London to undertake further postgraduate studies, and continued to live and work there. Having been based in Paris for several years, Veronica Buckley now lives in Vienna.

Following doctoral research in Modern History at Oxford University, Veronica Buckley wrote her first scholarly biography, about the seventeenth-century Swedish Queen Christina. Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric, was published in 2004, and was rated one of the 20 best non-fiction books of the year by The Telegraph.

Her second book, Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV, was published by Bloomsbury in July 2008. It is a biography of Françoise d’Aubigné, who rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the morganatic wife of the Sun King, and highly influential at his Court.In April 2008, before scheduled publication, it emerged that one source used in part of the book had been a work by the eminent historian of 17th century France Francois Bluche, which purported to be a secret diary of Louis XIV.As historian Professor Munro Price wrote in The Telegraph, "This error, now corrected, caused a small literary furore. This is a pity, since the book has many strengths. One is the emphasis it places on Françoise's poverty-stricken, rackety and sometimes desperate youth, which has often been eclipsed by her brilliant subsequent ascension."

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