Tilly Bagshawe
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| Born | Matilda Emily Bagshawe 12 June 1973 London, England, UK |
| Pen name | Tilly Bagshawe |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2005–present |
| Genre | Chick-lit |
| Spouse | Robin Nydes |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Louise Mensch (sister) |
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Tilly Bagshawe (born 12 June 1973) is a British freelance journalist and author. She is best known for her books Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game and Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness.
Born Matilda Emily Bagshawe on 12 June 1973 in Lambeth Hospital, London, she is one of two daughters born to Nicholas Wilfrid Bagshawe and his wife, Daphne Margaret (née Triggs). Her father comes from a family of Roman Catholic gentry; his grandfather was the marine artist Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe, who was himself grandson of one of the 19th century's most renowned marine artists, Clarkson Stanfield, and a nephew of Edward Gilpin Bagshawe, Catholic Bishop of Nottingham. Her paternal grandmother Mary Frideswide was the daughter of Charles Robertson, a stockbroker and benefactor of St Philip's Priory, Begbroke and one of the co-founders of Westminster Cathedral. Her older sister is Louise Bagshawe Mensch, a Chick-Lit author and former Conservative Member of Parliament. She has another sister Alice and a brother, James.
She was educated at Woldingham School, Surrey, and while there,she became pregnant. At seventeen, she was a single mother of a daughter, Persephone (aka Sefi), but she finished her studies and at the age of eighteen, she went up to St John's College, Cambridge with her ten-month-old daughter in tow.
Married with Robin Nydes, a US businessman, they live between their homes in London and Los Angeles, with three children. Now a freelance journalist and novelist, she is a regular contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and other British publications.
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