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Catherine Mayer

Catherine Mayer
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Born United States
Nationality British (naturalised)
Occupation Co-founder of Women's Equality Party, author and journalist
Notable work Born To Be king: Prince Charles On Planet Windsor
Political party Women's Equality Party
Spouse(s) Andy Gill
Relatives David Mayer (father)
Anne Mayer (mother)
Lise Mayer and Cassie Mayer (sisters)
External video
Catherine Mayer talks about her book
Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly via Ebury Press on YouTube

Catherine Mayer is an American-born British author and journalist, and the co-founder of the Women's Equality Party (WE) in the UK.

Mayer was born in the US and later became naturalised as British. Mayer moved to Britain as a child when her father, theatre historian David Mayer, came to research a book and later secured tenure at Manchester University teaching Ben Elton and the late Rik Mayall. Her mother, Anne, is prominent within theatre PR.

She attended Manchester High School for Girls. One of her sisters is The Young Ones co-writer (with Mayall) Lise Mayer, another is the theatre agent Cassie Mayer.

Mayer was president of the Foreign Press Association in London from June 2003 until June 2005.

She worked at Time from 2004 to April 2015, serving as Time's Editor at Large, Europe Editor, London Bureau Chief and Senior Editor. She has worked as a foreign correspondent at the German news weekly Focus and started her career at The Economist.

In 2011 Mayer wrote Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly about the pros and cons of people living longer.

Her 2015 biography of Prince Charles, published in two editions in English, Charles: The Heart of a King (WH Allen/Penguin Random House) and Born to Be King (Henry Holt/Macmillan), generated worldwide headlines with its claims of dysfunction in the royal courts. Clarence House, which had facilitated access to the Prince, distanced itself from the book. Mayer stood by the content. The book is a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.

Mayer's non-fiction Attack of the 50ft. Women was published in 2017. The book covers the benefits of gender equality and how it's being promoted in various countries.


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