Early Life
Weir was born in Westminster, UK in 1951. She has described her mother as "a genuinely good person with heaps of integrity, strength of character, humour and wisdom, and has overcome life’s trials with commendable fortitude."
Weir became interested in the field of history at the age of fourteen after reading a book about Catherine of Aragon. According to her, she became "so enthralled by it that I dashed off to read real history books to find out the truth behind what I had read, and thus my passion for history was born ". By the following year, she had written a biography of Anne Boleyn, a three-volume reference work about the Tudor family, and several historical plays.
She was educated at City of London School for Girls and North Western Polytechnic and hoped to become a history teacher. She opted to abandon history as a career after becoming disillusioned with "trendy teaching methods". She married Rankin Weir in 1972, with whom she had two children in the early 1980s. Weir worked as a civil servant, and later as a housewife and mother to her children. Between 1991 and 1997, she ran a school for children with learning disabilities.
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