Sarah Mary Malet Bradford (née Hayes; born 3 September 1938[1]) is an English author who is best known for her royal biographies.
Bradford was born in Bournemouth in 1938, the daughter of Brigadier Hilary Anthony Hayes DSO OBE.
Sarah Bradford then worked for the manuscript department of the auctioneer Christie's in London, where she met her second husband, William Maxwell David Ward; the two married in 1976.
She began her career as a writer with her first book, The Englishman's Wine, written while she lived in Portugal.
Bradford was interviewed in connection with the 1994 edition of the PBS video The Windsors: A Royal Family and with the 2007 BBC documentary Gladstone and Disraeli (presented by Huw Edwards), and assisted with the screenwriting for The Borgias, a 2011 television series.