Juliet Rieden is an author, journalist, magazine editor, book reviewer, and royal correspondent. Her previous books include The Writing on the Wall, a personal investigation into Juliet’s family’s fate in the Holocaust; Rising Heart, the memoir of Sierra Leonean kidnap survivor Aminata Conteh-Biger; and The Royals in Australia.
Juliet has been a journalist for more than 35 years in Australia and the UK, including 14 years at the Australian Women’s Weekly. Her extensive portfolio of interviewees includes former prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Malcolm Turnbull; international artists Dame Helen Mirren, Glenn Close, Sally Field, Dame Joanna Lumley and Cate Blanchett; writers Clive James, Hilary Mantel, and Mary Beard; royals King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Princess Anne and Queen Mary of Denmark.
Juliet is the royal commentator for the ABC and contributes to TV and radio networks in Australia and internationally. As a literary curator for the Queen’s Reading Room, Queen Camilla’s charity and literary hub, Juliet brings the work of Australian authors to an international audience.
