Interview with Megan Shaw on the Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham

Megan Shaw is an art historian who recently completed her PhD at the University of Auckland with her thesis entitled ‘A Female Favourite: Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham (1603-1649)’. Megan’s doctoral research was supported by a Junior Fellowship with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Her article on York House in the Furniture History journal includes a transcription of a newly discovered inventory of the Duchess of Buckingham’s closets. Outside of academia she is an archivist and project manager at the Chartwell Collection Trust and her first book on Chartwell’s philanthropy and this prestigious New Zealand art collection will be published in early April.

See the artworks discussed in the episode:
Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham and her family 

Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), Charles I and Henrietta Maria with their two eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Mary, April-August 1632, Royal Collection Trust

Villiers tomb at Westminster