Richard Aldous is a British historian and biographer based at Bard College, New York, where he is Eugene Meyer Distinguished Professor of History.
[2] Aldous has written books about Malcolm Sargent, Harold Macmillan, a twin-biography of Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone, a study of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher's political relationship, a book on JFK's treasury secretary C. Douglas Dillon, as well as a biography of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Since 2010 he is the Eugene Meyer Professor at Bard College, where he has served as Chair of the Faculty Senate.
He has written for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, and appeared on CNN, Fox News, PBS, RTÉ and the BBC.
He was the Spectrum News/NY1 Royal Expert for coverage of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.