Lady Anne Mary Carr (née Somerset, born 21 January 1955)[1] is an English historian and writer.
She read history at King's College London, graduated in 1976[3] and began her professional career as a research assistant to several historians.
She has also written about the Affair of the Poisons in Louis XIV's France, and a well-received biography of Queen Anne.
[2] Lady Anne is the widow of the artist Matthew Carr and daughter of David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort.
Her mother Caroline was the daughter of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath, and the author Daphne Fielding.