Leonie freida biography

About the Author

Swedish by birth, but educated in Britain, Germany and France, Leonie Frieda speaks five languages. Her researches on Catherine de Medici has taken her to Paris, Florence and Rome, as well as the châteaux of the Loire.

Her next book is a biography of the Great War soldier and letter-writer Edward Horner. She lives in London with her daughter Elisabeth and son Jake.

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February 12, (Times interview)

LEONIE FRIEDA, 47, is a former model and translator who is now the maîtresse de salon of London&#;s literary scene and author of a biography of Catherine de Medici.

She was born in Sweden, and educated in Britain, Germany and France before marrying Nigel Frieda, a music producer. Together, they built up and co-owned the Matrix recording studio &#; use